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Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, yet its stability is fundamentally challenged by statistical heterogeneity in realistic deployments. Here, we show that client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ping Luo , Jiahuan Wang , Ziqing Wen , Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li

The popularity of federated learning (FL) is on the rise, along with growing concerns about data privacy in artificial intelligence applications. FL facilitates collaborative multi-party model learning while simultaneously ensuring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Muhammad Firdaus , Kyung-Hyune Rhee

Federated Learning (FL) aims to learn a single global model that enables the central server to help the model training in local clients without accessing their local data. The key challenge of FL is the heterogeneity of local data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Sicong Liang , Junchao Tian , Shujun Yang , Yu Zhang

Recent works have shown that generative sequence models (e.g., language models) have a tendency to memorize rare or unique sequences in the training data. Since useful models are often trained on sensitive data, to ensure the privacy of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Om Thakkar , Swaroop Ramaswamy , Rajiv Mathews , Françoise Beaufays

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach involving multiple clients collaboratively training a shared model. Such a system has the advantage of more training data from multiple clients, but data can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Sone Kyaw Pye , Han Yu

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized devices while preserving data privacy. However, traditional FL suffers from communication overhead, system heterogeneity, and straggler effects. Asynchronous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ali Forootani , Raffaele Iervolino

Federated learning (FL) is a promising approach that enables distributed clients to collaboratively train a global model while preserving their data privacy. However, FL often suffers from data heterogeneity problems, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Ye Lin Tun , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Chu Myaet Thwal , Jinwoo Choi , Choong Seon Hong

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning paradigm. Nonetheless, the substantial distribution shifts among clients pose a considerable challenge to the performance of current FL algorithms. To mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yongxin Guo , Lin Wang , Xiaoying Tang , Tao Lin

Recently, data heterogeneity among the training datasets on the local clients (a.k.a., Non-IID data) has attracted intense interest in Federated Learning (FL), and many personalized federated learning methods have been proposed to handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Xueyang Tang , Song Guo , Jie Zhang

Subgraph Federated Learning (FL) aims to train Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) across distributed private subgraphs, but it suffers from severe data heterogeneity. To mitigate data heterogeneity, weighted model aggregation personalizes each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Minku Kang , Hogun Park

In diverse fields ranging from finance to omics, it is increasingly common that data is distributed and with multiple individual sources (referred to as ``clients'' in some studies). Integrating raw data, although powerful, is often not…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-08 Yuanxing Chen , Qingzhao Zhang , Shuangge Ma , Kuangnan Fang

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel, multidisciplinary Machine Learning paradigm where multiple clients, such as mobile devices, collaborate to solve machine learning problems. Initially introduced in Kone{\v{c}}n{\'y} et al. (2016a,b);…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Konstantin Burlachenko

Today data is often scattered among billions of resource-constrained edge devices with security and privacy constraints. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a viable solution to learn a global model while keeping data private, but the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Sijie Cheng , Jingwen Wu , Yanghua Xiao , Yang Liu , Yang Liu

Federated Learning has become an important learning paradigm due to its privacy and computational benefits. As the field advances, two key challenges that still remain to be addressed are: (1) system heterogeneity - variability in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Disha Makhija , Nhat Ho , Joydeep Ghosh

Data heterogeneity poses a fundamental challenge in federated learning (FL), especially when clients differ not only in distribution but also in the reliability of their predictions across individual examples. While personalized FL (PFL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amr Abourayya , Jens Kleesiek , Bharat Rao , Michael Kamp

While federated learning traditionally aims to train a single global model across decentralized local datasets, one model may not always be ideal for all participating clients. Here we propose an alternative, where each client only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Michael Zhang , Karan Sapra , Sanja Fidler , Serena Yeung , Jose M. Alvarez

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving paradigm for collaboratively training a global model from decentralized clients. However, the performance of FL is hindered by non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xinyu Zhang , Weiyu Sun , Ying Chen

The key premise of federated learning (FL) is to train ML models across a diverse set of data-owners (clients), without exchanging local data. An overarching challenge to this date is client heterogeneity, which may arise not only from…

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed training while preserving data privacy, but stragglers-slow or incapable clients-can significantly slow down the total training time and degrade performance. To mitigate the impact of stragglers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Honggu Kang , Seohyeon Cha , Jinwoo Shin , Jongmyeong Lee , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a deep learning model. One major challenge of FL is when data distribution is heterogeneous, i.e., differs from one client to another. Existing personalized FL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Haolin Yuan , Bo Hui , Yuchen Yang , Philippe Burlina , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yinzhi Cao