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This paper presents FedType, a simple yet pioneering framework designed to fill research gaps in heterogeneous model aggregation within federated learning (FL). FedType introduces small identical proxy models for clients, serving as agents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jiaqi Wang , Chenxu Zhao , Lingjuan Lyu , Quanzeng You , Mengdi Huai , Fenglong Ma

Federated learning (FL) enables leveraging distributed private data for model training in a privacy-preserving way. However, data heterogeneity significantly limits the performance of current FL methods. In this paper, we propose a novel FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Rui Ye , Xinyu Zhu , Jingyi Chai , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key approach for distributed machine learning, enhancing online personalization while ensuring user data privacy. Instead of sending private data to a central server as in traditional approaches, FL…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Francesco Fabbri , Xianghang Liu , Jack R. McKenzie , Bartlomiej Twardowski , Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Federated Learning (FL) enables a group of clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing individual data, but its performance drops when client data are heterogeneous. Clustered FL tackles this by grouping similar clients.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Anik Pramanik , Murat Kantarcioglu , Vincent Oria , Shantanu Sharma

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing their private data. However, data heterogeneity across clients leads to client drift, which degrades the overall generalization performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Alina Devkota , Jacob Thrasher , Donald Adjeroh , Binod Bhattarai , Prashnna K. Gyawali

Training recommendation models on large datasets requires significant time and resources. It is desired to construct concise yet informative datasets for efficient training. Recent advances in dataset condensation show promise in addressing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiahao Wu , Wenqi Fan , Jingfan Chen , Shengcai Liu , Qijiong Liu , Rui He , Qing Li , Ke Tang

Recommendation algorithms rely on user historical interactions to deliver personalized suggestions, which raises significant privacy concerns. Federated recommendation algorithms tackle this issue by combining local model training with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Mingzhe Han , Dongsheng Li , Jiafeng Xia , Jiahao Liu , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu , Tun Lu

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed machine learning framework that enables geographically discrete clients to train a global model collaboratively while preserving their privacy-sensitive data. However, due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Shensheng Zheng , Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang , Lingjie Duan

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

Deep learning has achieved great success in many applications. However, its deployment in practice has been hurdled by two issues: the privacy of data that has to be aggregated centrally for model training and high communication overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tien-Dung Cao , Tram Truong-Huu , Hien Tran , Khanh Tran

Heterogeneity arising from label distribution skew and data scarcity can cause inaccuracy and unfairness in intelligent communication applications that heavily rely on distributed computing. To deal with it, this paper proposes a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Chenghao Huang , Xiaolu Chen , Yanru Zhang , Hao Wang

Federated learning ensures the privacy of clients by conducting distributed training on individual client devices and sharing only the model weights with a central server. However, in real-world scenarios, the heterogeneity of data among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jaewon Jang , Bonjun Choi

The emerging paradigm of federated learning strives to enable collaborative training of machine learning models on the network edge without centrally aggregating raw data and hence, improving data privacy. This sharply deviates from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Manoj Ghuhan Arivazhagan , Vinay Aggarwal , Aaditya Kumar Singh , Sunav Choudhary

Federated Recommender Systems (FedRecs) leverage federated learning to protect user privacy by retaining data locally. However, user embeddings in FedRecs often encode sensitive attribute information, rendering them vulnerable to attribute…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuyuan Li , Junjie Fang , Fengyuan Yu , Xichun Sheng , Tianyu Du , Xuyang Teng , Shaowei Jiang , Linbo Jiang , Jianan Lin , Chaochao Chen

The drive for personalization in recommender systems creates a tension between user privacy and the risk of "filter bubbles". Although federated learning offers a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving recommendations, its impact on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sven Lankester , Gustavo de Carvalho Bertoli , Matias Vizcaino , Emmanuelle Beauxis Aussalet , Manel Slokom

In the federated learning scenario, geographically distributed clients collaboratively train a global model. Data heterogeneity among clients significantly results in inconsistent model updates, which evidently slow down model convergence.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Xujing Li , Min Liu , Sheng Sun , Yuwei Wang , Hui Jiang , Xuefeng Jiang

Federated learning is a popular paradigm for machine learning. Ideally, federated learning works best when all clients share a similar data distribution. However, it is not always the case in the real world. Therefore, the topic of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yuchuan Huang , Chen Hu

Diffusion-based recommender systems (DR) have gained increasing attention for their advanced generative and denoising capabilities. However, existing DR face two central limitations: (i) a trade-off between enhancing generative capacity via…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Gyuseok Lee , Yaochen Zhu , Hwanjo Yu , Yao Zhou , Jundong Li

Time series forecasting plays a critical role in various real-world applications, including energy consumption prediction, disease transmission monitoring, and weather forecasting. Although substantial progress has been made in time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Wei Yuan , Guanhua Ye , Xiangyu Zhao , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Yang Cao , Hongzhi Yin

Federated learning is a paradigm of distributed machine learning in which multiple clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model, without sharing their own training data. Standard federated optimization methods such as Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Sohom Mukherjee , Nicolas Loizou , Sebastian U. Stich