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Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) enables distributed training on edge devices, allowing models to collaboratively learn global patterns while tailoring their parameters to better fit each client's local data, all while preserving data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sannara Ek , Kaile Wang , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , Jiannong Cao

Personalization aims to characterize individual preferences and is widely applied across many fields. However, conventional personalized methods operate in a centralized manner, potentially exposing raw data when pooling individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Hao Di , Yi Yang , Haishan Ye , Xiangyu Chang

In traditional Federated Learning approaches like FedAvg, the global model underperforms when faced with data heterogeneity. Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) enables clients to train personalized models to fit their local data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xinghao Wu , Jianwei Niu , Xuefeng Liu , Mingjia Shi , Guogang Zhu , Shaojie Tang

Data heterogeneity poses a fundamental challenge in federated learning (FL), especially when clients differ not only in distribution but also in the reliability of their predictions across individual examples. While personalized FL (PFL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amr Abourayya , Jens Kleesiek , Bharat Rao , Michael Kamp

As a popular paradigm of distributed learning, personalized federated learning (PFL) allows personalized models to improve generalization ability and robustness by utilizing knowledge from all distributed clients. Most existing PFL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Guanghao Li , Wansen Wu , Yan Sun , Li Shen , Baoyuan Wu , Dacheng Tao

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) aims to learn personalized models for each client based on the knowledge across all clients in a privacy-preserving manner. Existing PFL methods generally assume that the underlying global data across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yang Lu , Pinxin Qian , Gang Huang , Hanzi Wang

Personalized federated learning (pFL) enables collaborative training among multiple clients to enhance the capability of customized local models. In pFL, clients may have heterogeneous (also known as non-IID) data, which poses a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Lingzhi Gao , Zexi Li , Yang Lu , Chao Wu

Federated learning enables multiple clients (institutions) to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their private data. To address the challenge of data heterogeneity across clients, personalized federated learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Meilu Zhu , Yuxing Li , Zhiwei Wang , Edmund Y. Lam

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to heterogeneously distributed data, since a common global model in FL may not adapt to the heterogeneous data distribution of each user. To counter this issue, personalized FL (PFL) was proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Tiansheng Huang , Shiwei Liu , Li Shen , Fengxiang He , Weiwei Lin , Dacheng Tao

Federated learning (FL) emerges as a decentralized learning framework which trains models from multiple distributed clients without sharing their data to preserve privacy. Recently, large-scale pre-trained models (e.g., Vision Transformer)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Fu-En Yang , Chien-Yi Wang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

We present PeFLL, a new personalized federated learning algorithm that improves over the state-of-the-art in three aspects: 1) it produces more accurate models, especially in the low-data regime, and not only for clients present during its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Jonathan Scott , Hossein Zakerinia , Christoph H. Lampert

Federated learning enables distributed clients to collaborate on training while storing their data locally to protect client privacy. However, due to the heterogeneity of data, models, and devices, the final global model may need to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Wolong Xing , Zhenkui Shi , Hongyan Peng , Xiantao Hu , Xianxian Li

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 decentralized machine learning technique that enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models without requiring clients to reveal their raw data to each other. Although traditional FL trains a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Junki Mori , Tomoyuki Yoshiyama , Furukawa Ryo , Isamu Teranishi

Personalized Federated Learning (PerFL) is a new machine learning paradigm that delivers personalized models for diverse clients under federated learning settings. Most PerFL methods require extra learning processes on a client to adapt a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Peng Yan , Guodong Long

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) aims to train customized models for clients with highly heterogeneous data distributions while preserving data privacy. Existing approaches often rely on heuristics like clustering or model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ping Guo , Tiantian Zhang , Xi Lin , Xiang Li , Zhi-Ri Tang , Qingfu Zhang

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

Federated learning, a distributed learning paradigm, utilizes multiple clients to build a robust global model. In real-world applications, local clients often operate within their limited domains, leading to a `domain shift' across clients.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Seunghan Yang , Seokeon Choi , Hyunsin Park , Sungha Choi , Simyung Chang , Sungrack Yun

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm in which multiple clients collaboratively train a shared model without sharing their local private data. However, real-world applications of FL frequently encounter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhekai Zhou , Shudong Liu , Zhaokun Zhou , Yang Liu , Qiang Yang , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo

Personalised federated learning (FL) aims at collaboratively learning a machine learning model taylored for each client. Albeit promising advances have been made in this direction, most of existing approaches works do not allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Nikita Kotelevskii , Maxime Vono , Eric Moulines , Alain Durmus