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Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed training by learners using local data, thereby enhancing privacy and reducing communication. However, it presents numerous challenges relating to the heterogeneity of the data distribution, device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Atal Narayan Sahu , Marco Canini , Suhaib A. Fahmy

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative and privacy-preserving Machine Learning paradigm, allowing the development of robust models without the need to centralize sensitive data. A critical challenge in FL lies in fairly and accurately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Arno Geimer , Beltran Fiz , Radu State

Federated learning has emerged as an essential paradigm for distributed multi-source data analysis under privacy concerns. Most existing federated learning methods focus on the ``static" datasets. However, in many real-world applications,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-12 Jingmao Li , Yuanxing Chen , Shuangge Ma , Kuangnan Fang

Computers are increasingly used to make decisions that have significant impact in people's lives. Often, these predictions can affect different population subgroups disproportionately. As a result, the issue of fairness has received much…

Many score-based active learning methods have been successfully applied to graph-structured data, aiming to reduce the number of labels and achieve better performance of graph neural networks based on predefined score functions. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yinchuan Li , Zhigang Li , Wenqian Li , Yunfeng Shao , Yan Zheng , Jianye Hao

Incentives that compensate for the involved costs in the decentralized training of a Federated Learning (FL) model act as a key stimulus for clients' long-term participation. However, it is challenging to convince clients for quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Shashi Raj Pandey , Lam Duc Nguyen , Petar Popovski

Recently, there has been a growing interest in developing machine learning (ML) models that can promote fairness, i.e., eliminating biased predictions towards certain populations (e.g., individuals from a specific demographic group). Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Song Wang , Jing Ma , Lu Cheng , Jundong Li

Society increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from automation have come paired with concern for algorithmic discrimination that can systematize inequality. Recent work has…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Alejandro Noriega-Campero , Michiel A. Bakker , Bernardo Garcia-Bulle , Alex Pentland

As the operations of autonomous systems generally affect simultaneously several users, it is crucial that their designs account for fairness considerations. In contrast to standard (deep) reinforcement learning (RL), we investigate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Umer Siddique , Paul Weng , Matthieu Zimmer

Federated Edge Learning (FEL), an emerging distributed Machine Learning (ML) paradigm, enables model training in a distributed environment while ensuring user privacy by using physical separation for each user data. However, with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jingbo Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Qiang Fan

The current standalone deep learning framework tends to result in overfitting and low utility. This problem can be addressed by either a centralized framework that deploys a central server to train a global model on the joint data from all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Lingjuan Lyu , Jiangshan Yu , Karthik Nandakumar , Yitong Li , Xingjun Ma , Jiong Jin , Han Yu , Kee Siong Ng

As machine learning algorithms grow in popularity and diversify to many industries, ethical and legal concerns regarding their fairness have become increasingly relevant. We explore the problem of algorithmic fairness, taking an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Joshua Lee , Yuheng Bu , Prasanna Sattigeri , Rameswar Panda , Gregory Wornell , Leonid Karlinsky , Rogerio Feris

We consider a setting in which a group of agents share resources that must be allocated among them in each discrete time period. Agents have time-varying demands and derive constant marginal utility from each unit of resource received up to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Seyed Majid Zahedi , Rupert Freeman

Data attribution has become an important component of pricing, auditing, and governance in machine learning pipelines, yet most attribution methods implicitly assume that attribution values faithfully reflect participants' contributions. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xian Gao , Bo Hui , Min-Te Sun , Wei-Shinn Ku

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning across multiple clients. In most FL work, all clients train a single learning task. However, the recent proliferation of FL applications may increasingly require multiple FL tasks to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Marie Siew , Haoran Zhang , Jong-Ik Park , Yuezhou Liu , Yichen Ruan , Lili Su , Stratis Ioannidis , Edmund Yeh , Carlee Joe-Wong

Developing learning methods which do not discriminate subgroups in the population is a central goal of algorithmic fairness. One way to reach this goal is by modifying the data representation in order to meet certain fairness constraints.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-03 Luca Oneto , Michele Donini , Andreas Maurer , Massimiliano Pontil

Federated learning (FL) provides a promising paradigm for facilitating collaboration between multiple clients that jointly learn a global model without directly sharing their local data. However, existing research suffers from two caveats:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jinlong Pang , Jiaheng Wei , Yifan Hua , Chen Qian , Yang Liu

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents in an online setting, where goods arrive sequentially and must be allocated irrevocably. Focusing on the popular fairness notions of envy-freeness, proportionality, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Jannik Peters , Nicholas Teh

Cross-silo federated learning allows multiple organizations to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing raw data, but client updates can still leak sensitive information through inference attacks. Secure aggregation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Delio Jaramillo Velez , Gergely Biczok , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Johan Ostman , Balazs Pejo

Peer prediction mechanisms are often adopted to elicit truthful contributions from crowd workers when no ground-truth verification is available. Recently, mechanisms of this type have been developed to incentivize effort exertion, in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Yang Liu , Yiling Chen