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Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training with privacy preservation. Data heterogeneity across edge devices (clients) can cause models to converge to sharp minima, negatively impacting generalization and robustness.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Debora Caldarola , Pietro Cagnasso , Barbara Caputo , Marco Ciccone

Federated learning enables joint training of machine learning models from distributed clients without sharing their local data. One key challenge in federated learning is to handle non-identically distributed data across the clients, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Tiejin Chen , Yuanpu Cao , Yujia Wang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jinghui Chen

Heterogeneous federated learning (HFL) aims to ensure effective and privacy-preserving collaboration among different entities. As newly joined clients require significant adjustments and additional training to align with the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kaile Wang , Jiannong Cao , Yu Yang , Xiaoyin Li , Mingjin Zhang

Purpose: We apply federated learning to train an OCT image classifier simulating a realistic scenario with multiple clients and statistical heterogeneous data distribution where data in the clients lack samples of some categories entirely.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Sanskar Amgain , Prashant Shrestha , Sophia Bano , Ignacio del Valle Torres , Michael Cunniffe , Victor Hernandez , Phil Beales , Binod Bhattarai

Federated learning has allowed the training of statistical models over remote devices without the transfer of raw client data. In practice, training in heterogeneous and large networks introduce novel challenges in various aspects like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Dipankar Sarkar , Sumit Rai , Ankur Narang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution to perform deep learning on different data owners without exchanging raw data. However, non-IID data has been a key challenge in FL, which could significantly degrade the accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yiqun Diao , Qinbin Li , Bingsheng He

Federated learning is a powerful paradigm for large-scale machine learning, but it faces significant challenges due to unreliable network connections, slow communication, and substantial data heterogeneity across clients. FedAvg and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ziheng Cheng , Xinmeng Huang , Pengfei Wu , Kun Yuan

Federated learning involves training machine learning models over devices or data silos, such as edge processors or data warehouses, while keeping the data local. Training in heterogeneous and potentially massive networks introduces bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Zichen Ma , Yu Lu , Zihan Lu , Wenye Li , Jinfeng Yi , Shuguang Cui

Federated Learning is a novel framework that allows multiple devices or institutions to train a machine learning model collaboratively while preserving their data private. This decentralized approach is prone to suffer the consequences of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Marcos F. Criado , Fernando E. Casado , Roberto Iglesias , Carlos V. Regueiro , Senén Barro

Federated Learning using the Federated Averaging algorithm has shown great advantages for large-scale applications that rely on collaborative learning, especially when the training data is either unbalanced or inaccessible due to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jonatan Reyes , Lisa Di Jorio , Cecile Low-Kam , Marta Kersten-Oertel

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as an essential framework for distributed machine learning, especially with its potential for privacy-preserving data processing. However, existing FL frameworks struggle to address statistical and model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Fucheng Guo , Zeyu Luan , Qing Li , Dan Zhao , Yong Jiang

Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale distributed training of machine learning models, while still allowing individual nodes to maintain data locally. However, executing FL at scale comes with inherent practical challenges: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hossein Zakerinia , Shayan Talaei , Giorgi Nadiradze , Dan Alistarh

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that empowers edge devices to collaboratively learn a global model leveraging local data. Simulating FL on GPU is essential to expedite FL algorithm prototyping and evaluations.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Min Zhang , Fuxun Yu , Yongbo Yu , Minjia Zhang , Ang Li , Xiang Chen

We develop FedCluster--a novel federated learning framework with improved optimization efficiency, and investigate its theoretical convergence properties. The FedCluster groups the devices into multiple clusters that perform federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Cheng Chen , Ziyi Chen , Yi Zhou , Bhavya Kailkhura

Federated Learning (FL) methods often struggle in highly statistically heterogeneous settings. Indeed, non-IID data distributions cause client drift and biased local solutions, particularly pronounced in the final classification layer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Eros Fanì , Raffaello Camoriano , Barbara Caputo , Marco Ciccone

Traditional Federated Learning (FL) necessitates numerous rounds of communication between the server and clients, posing significant challenges including high communication costs, connection drop risks and susceptibility to privacy attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zenghao Guan , Yucan Zhou , Xiaoyan Gu

To effectively manage and utilize massive distributed data at the network edge, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising edge computing paradigm across data silos. However, FL still faces two challenges: system heterogeneity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jingjing Xue , Sheng Sun , Min Liu , Yuwei Wang , Zhuotao Liu , Jingyuan Wang

Non-IID data present a tough challenge for federated learning. In this paper, we explore a novel idea of facilitating pairwise collaborations between clients with similar data. We propose FedAMP, a new method employing federated attentive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yutao Huang , Lingyang Chu , Zirui Zhou , Lanjun Wang , Jiangchuan Liu , Jian Pei , Yong Zhang

Federated Learning is a leading framework for training ML and AI models collaboratively across numerous user devices or databases. We study the trade-offs among estimation accuracy, privacy constraints, and communication cost for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Arnab Auddy , Xiangni Peng , Subhadeep Paul

A novel federated learning training framework for heterogeneous environments is presented, taking into account the diverse network speeds of clients in realistic settings. This framework integrates asynchronous learning algorithms and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chengjie Ma