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Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients with distributed data sources to collaboratively train a shared model without compromising data privacy. However, existing FL paradigms face challenges due to heterogeneity in client data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Brianna Mueller , W. Nick Street , Stephen Baek , Qihang Lin , Jingyi Yang , Yankun Huang

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique that enables collaborative model training while avoiding explicit data sharing. The inherent privacy-preserving property of FL algorithms makes them especially attractive…

We propose a novel training recipe for federated learning with heterogeneous networks where each device can have different architectures. We introduce training with a side objective to the devices of higher complexities to jointly train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Durmus Alp Emre Acar , Venkatesh Saligrama

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training across clients while preserving privacy. While most existing FL methods assume homogeneous model architectures, client heterogeneity in both data and resources makes this assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yuan Yao , Lixu Wang , Jiaqi Wu , Jin Song , Simin Chen , Zehua Wang , Zijian Tian , Wei Chen , Huixia Li , Xiaoxiao Li

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning architecture, which leverages a large number of remote devices to learn a joint model with distributed training data. However, the system-heterogeneity is one major challenge in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xingyu Li , Zhe Qu , Bo Tang , Zhuo Lu

We consider the problem of federated offline reinforcement learning (RL), a scenario under which distributed learning agents must collaboratively learn a high-quality control policy only using small pre-collected datasets generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Desik Rengarajan , Nitin Ragothaman , Dileep Kalathil , Srinivas Shakkottai

Federated learning (FL) is a paradigm where many clients collaboratively train a model under the coordination of a central server, while keeping the training data locally stored. However, heterogeneous data distributions over different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yaqi Sun , Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Yuhan Dong , Zhitao Zhu , Jing Xiao

Federated learning (FL) is able to manage edge devices to cooperatively train a model while maintaining the training data local and private. One common assumption in FL is that all edge devices share the same machine learning model in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Chan Yun Hin , Ngai Edith

Federated reinforcement learning (FedRL) enables multiple agents to collaboratively train a global policy without sharing raw data, making it ideal for privacy-sensitive applications. However, FedRL faces challenges in heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yiran Pang , Zhen Ni , Xiangnan Zhong

Federated reinforcement learning enables decentralized agents to collaboratively improve policies or value estimates without exchanging raw trajectories. However, FedAvg-style parameter averaging is not function-space consistent: when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuchen Hou , Yongshan Chen , Zhuowen Zou , Calvin Yeung , Mohsen Imani , Tian Lan , Mahdi Imani

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training without centralizing data, essential for privacy compliance in real-world scenarios involving sensitive visual information. Most FL approaches rely on expensive, iterative deep network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Alejandro Dopico-Castro , Oscar Fontenla-Romero , Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos , Iván Pérez Digón

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training of a global model in the centralized server with data from multiple parties while preserving privacy. However, data heterogeneity can significantly degrade the performance of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yong Zhang , Feng Liang , Guanghu Yuan , Min Yang , Chengming Li , Xiping Hu

Federated learning enables many local devices to train a deep learning model jointly without sharing the local data. Currently, most of federated training schemes learns a global model by averaging the parameters of local models. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhenwei Dai , Chen Dun , Yuxin Tang , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Anshumali Shrivastava

Federated Learning has recently been utilized to collaboratively fine-tune foundation models across multiple clients. Notably, federated low-rank adaptation LoRA-based fine-tuning methods have recently gained attention, which allows clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zikai Zhang , Ping Liu , Jiahao Xu , Rui Hu

Federated Learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving framework for training machine learning models on mobile edge devices. Traditional FL algorithms, e.g., FedAvg, impose a heavy communication workload on these devices. To mitigate this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zhidong Gao , Yu Zhang , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized learning method used to train machine learning algorithms. In FL, a global model iteratively collects the parameters of local models without accessing their local data. However, a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Mingjie Wang , Jianxiong Guo , Weijia Jia

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized model training approach that preserves data privacy but struggles with low efficiency. Quantization, a powerful training optimization technique, has been widely explored for integration into FL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zihao Zheng , Ziyao Wang , Xiuping Cui , Maoliang Li , Jiayu Chen , Yun , Liang , Ang Li , Xiang Chen

Federated Learning (FL) is a well-known framework for successfully performing a learning task in an edge computing scenario where the devices involved have limited resources and incomplete data representation. The basic assumption of FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Lorenzo Valerio , Chiara Boldrini , Andrea Passarella , János Kertész , Márton Karsai , Gerardo Iñiguez

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) enables a collection of agents to collaboratively learn individual models without sharing raw data. We propose a new PFL approach in which each agent optimizes a weighted combination of all agents'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jean-Baptiste Fermanian , Batiste Le Bars , Aurélien Bellet

Federated Learning (FL) is a method of training machine learning models on private data distributed over a large number of possibly heterogeneous clients such as mobile phones and IoT devices. In this work, we propose a new federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh