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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 is a privacy-focused approach towards machine learning where models are trained on client devices with locally available data and aggregated at a central server. However, the dependence on a single central server is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shamik Bhattacharyya , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

Federated edge learning (FEEL) provides a promising foundation for edge artificial intelligence (AI) by enabling collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, limited and heterogeneous local datasets, as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xinnong Du , Zhonghao Lyu , Xiaowen Cao , Chunyang Wen , Shuguang Cui , Jie Xu

With the rapid growth in mobile computing, massive amounts of data and computing resources are now located at the edge. To this end, Federated learning (FL) is becoming a widely adopted distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm, which aims…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Li Chou , Zichang Liu , Zhuang Wang , Anshumali Shrivastava

Federated learning (FL) goes beyond traditional, centralized machine learning by distributing model training among a large collection of edge clients. These clients cooperatively train a global, e.g., cloud-hosted, model without disclosing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Gabriele Costa , Fabio Pinelli , Simone Soderi , Gabriele Tolomei

Because of its privacy-preserving capability, federated learning (FL) has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. However, when being implemented over wireless networks, it is not clear how much communication error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Linping Qu , Shenghui Song , Chi-Ying Tsui , Yuyi Mao

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning setting that requires multiple clients to collaborate on training a model while maintaining data privacy. The unaddressed inherent sparsity in data and models often results in overly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 Krishna Harsha Kovelakuntla Huthasana , Alireza Olama , Andreas Lundell

Federated learning (FL) facilitates the secure utilization of decentralized images, advancing applications in medical image recognition and autonomous driving. However, conventional FL faces two critical challenges in real-world deployment:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Shiwei Lu , Yuhang He , Jiashuo Li , Qiang Wang , Yihong Gong

We study expected generalization bounds for the Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) setup using Wasserstein distance. We introduce a generalized framework in which data is sampled hierarchically, and we model it with a multi-layered tree…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Dario Filatrella , Ragnar Thobaben , Mikael Skoglund

Federated learning (FL) has enabled training machine learning models exploiting the data of multiple agents without compromising privacy. However, FL is known to be vulnerable to data heterogeneity, partial device participation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Marina Costantini , Giovanni Neglia , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

Federated learning (FL) literature typically assumes that each client has a fixed amount of data, which is unrealistic in many practical applications. Some recent works introduced a framework for online FL (Online-Fed) wherein clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Stefan Werner , Yih-Fang Huang , Anthony Kuh

Federated Learning (FL) has recently received a lot of attention for large-scale privacy-preserving machine learning. However, high communication overheads due to frequent gradient transmissions decelerate FL. To mitigate the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Milad Khademi Nori , Sangseok Yun , Il-Min Kim

This paper considers the Federated learning (FL) in a stochastic approximation (SA) framework. Here, each client $i$ trains a local model using its dataset $\mathcal{D}^{(i)}$ and periodically transmits the model parameters $w^{(i)}_n$ to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Srihari P , Anik Kumar Paul , Bharath Bhikkaji

At the heart of machine learning lies the question of generalizability of learned rules over previously unseen data. While over-parameterized models based on neural networks are now ubiquitous in machine learning applications, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Melikasadat Emami , Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan , Parthe Pandit , Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher

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) is a distributed paradigm that coordinates massive local clients to collaboratively train a global model via stage-wise local training processes on the heterogeneous dataset. Previous works have implicitly studied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Li Shen , Yan Sun , Dacheng Tao

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as an important and promising learning scheme in IoT, enabling devices to jointly learn a model without sharing their raw data sets. However, as the training data in FL is not collected and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Shuo Wan , Jiaxun Lu , Pingyi Fan , Yunfeng Shao , Chenghui Peng , Khaled B. letaief

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared model without disclosing their local datasets. This is achieved by exchanging local model updates with the help of a parameter server (PS). However, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Emre Ozfatura , Kerem Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

Personalized decision-making can be implemented in a Federated learning (FL) framework that can collaboratively train a decision model by extracting knowledge across intelligent clients, e.g. smartphones or enterprises. FL can mitigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Guodong Long , Ming Xie , Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Xianzhi Wang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Federated learning facilitates collaborative model training across multiple clients while preserving data privacy. However, its performance is often constrained by limited communication resources, particularly in systems supporting a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jiaqi Zhu , Bikramjit Das , Yong Xie , Nikolaos Pappas , Howard H. Yang