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Federated learning (FL) is a promising framework for learning from distributed data while maintaining privacy. The development of efficient FL algorithms encounters various challenges, including heterogeneous data and systems, limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yongcun Song , Ziqi Wang , Enrique Zuazua

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that permits a large number of clients with heterogeneous data to coordinate learning of a unified global model without the need to share data amongst each other. A major challenge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Irene Tenison , Sai Aravind Sreeramadas , Vaikkunth Mugunthan , Edouard Oyallon , Irina Rish , Eugene Belilovsky

Federated learning (FL) is an effective mechanism for data privacy in recommender systems by running machine learning model training on-device. While prior FL optimizations tackled the data and system heterogeneity challenges faced by FL,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Kiwan Maeng , Haiyu Lu , Luca Melis , John Nguyen , Mike Rabbat , Carole-Jean Wu

Objective: Mitigating algorithmic disparities is a critical challenge in healthcare research, where ensuring equity and fairness is paramount. While large-scale healthcare data exist across multiple institutions, cross-institutional…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Siqi Li , Qiming Wu , Xin Li , Di Miao , Chuan Hong , Wenjun Gu , Yuqing Shang , Yohei Okada , Michael Hao Chen , Mengying Yan , Yilin Ning , Marcus Eng Hock Ong , Nan Liu

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

While clients may join federated learning to improve performance on data they rarely observe locally, they often remain self-interested, expecting the global model to perform well on their own data. This motivates an objective that ensures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Brahim Erraji , Michaël Perrot , Aurélien Bellet

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) enables a set of distributed clients to jointly train machine learning models while preserving their local data privacy, making it attractive for applications in healthcare, finance, mobility, and smart-city systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Eman M. AbouNassar , Amr Elshall , Sameh Abdulah

As a promising privacy-preserving machine learning method, Federated Learning (FL) enables global model training across clients without compromising their confidential local data. However, existing FL methods suffer from the problem of low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ming Hu , Zhihao Yue , Zhiwei Ling , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

Federated Learning is emerging as a privacy-preserving model training approach in distributed edge applications. As such, most edge deployments are heterogeneous in nature i.e., their sensing capabilities and environments vary across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Khotso Selialia , Yasra Chandio , Fatima M. Anwar

As a privacy-preserving paradigm for training Machine Learning (ML) models, Federated Learning (FL) has received tremendous attention from both industry and academia. In a typical FL scenario, clients exhibit significant heterogeneity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Lei Fu , Huanle Zhang , Ge Gao , Mi Zhang , Xin Liu

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a new paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative training. Under domain skew, the current FL approaches are biased and face two fairness problems. 1) Parameter Update Conflict: data disparity among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuhang Chen , Wenke Huang , Mang Ye

Federated Learning (FL) has shown great potential as a privacy-preserving solution to learning from decentralized data that are only accessible to end devices (i.e., clients). In many scenarios, however, a large proportion of the clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Carsten Maple

In this paper, we study the problem of fair worker selection in Federated Learning systems, where fairness serves as an incentive mechanism that encourages more workers to participate in the federation. Considering the achieved training…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Fengjiao Li , Jia Liu , Bo Ji

Fairness in Federated Learning (FL) is emerging as a critical factor driven by heterogeneous clients' constraints and balanced model performance across various scenarios. In this survey, we delineate a comprehensive classification of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Noorain Mukhtiar , Adnan Mahmood , Yipeng Zhou , Jian Yang , Jing Teng , Quan Z. Sheng

Federated learning involves training statistical models in massive, heterogeneous networks. Naively minimizing an aggregate loss function in such a network may disproportionately advantage or disadvantage some of the devices. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Tian Li , Maziar Sanjabi , Ahmad Beirami , Virginia Smith

Federated Learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving mechanism for distributed training of machine learning models on networked devices (e.g., mobile devices, IoT edge nodes). It enables Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the edge by creating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Paul Joe Maliakel , Shashikant Ilager , Ivona Brandic

The federated learning (FL) paradigm emerges to preserve data privacy during model training by only exposing clients' model parameters rather than original data. One of the biggest challenges in FL lies in the non-IID (not identical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jiahao Tan , Yipeng Zhou , Gang Liu , Jessie Hui Wang , Shui Yu

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a communication-efficient algorithmic framework for distributed learning across multiple agents. While standard FL formulations capture unconstrained or globally constrained problems, many practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Mohammadjavad Ebrahimi , Daniel Burbano , Farzad Yousefian

Federated learning enables training on a massive number of edge devices. To improve flexibility and scalability, we propose a new asynchronous federated optimization algorithm. We prove that the proposed approach has near-linear convergence…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Cong Xie , Sanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta