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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 enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but its performance can degrade substantially under heterogeneous client data distributions. A single global model often cannot satisfy diverse client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yunseok Kang , Jaeyoung Song

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning scheme to train a shared model across clients. One common and fundamental challenge in FL is that the sets of data across clients could be non-identically distributed and have different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Junyi Zhu , Xingchen Ma , Matthew B. Blaschko

Federated learning offers a paradigm to the challenge of preserving privacy in distributed machine learning. However, datasets distributed across each client in the real world are inevitably heterogeneous, and if the datasets can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Xiuhua Lu , Peng Li , Xuefeng Jiang

Vision-Language Navigation VLN requires large-scale trajectory instruction data from private indoor environments, raising significant privacy concerns. Federated Learning FL mitigates this by keeping data on-device, but vanilla FL struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Qingqian Yang , Hao Wang , Sai Qian Zhang , Jian Li , Yang Hua , Miao Pan , Tao Song , Zhengwei Qi , Haibing Guan

Current state-of-the-art deep learning based face recognition (FR) models require a large number of face identities for central training. However, due to the growing privacy awareness, it is prohibited to access the face images on user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Chih-Ting Liu , Chien-Yi Wang , Shao-Yi Chien , Shang-Hong Lai

Medical image segmentation under federated learning (FL) is a promising direction by allowing multiple clinical sites to collaboratively learn a global model without centralizing datasets. However, using a single model to adapt to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Jiacheng Wang , Yueming Jin , Liansheng Wang

Federated Learning provides a privacy-preserving paradigm for distributed learning, but suffers from statistical heterogeneity across clients. Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) mitigates this issue by considering client-specific models.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Ala Emrani , Amir Najafi , Abolfazl Motahari

Federated Learning (FL) is developed to learn a single global model across the decentralized data, while is susceptible when realizing client-specific personalization in the presence of statistical heterogeneity. However, studies focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Changxing Jing , Yan Huang , Yihong Zhuang , Liyan Sun , Yue Huang , Zhenlong Xiao , Xinghao Ding

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Yet, COPD diagnosis heavily relies on spirometric examination as well as functional airway limitation, which may cause a considerable portion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yiqing Shen , Baiyun Liu , Ruize Yu , Yudong Wang , Shaokang Wang , Jiangfen Wu , Weidao Chen

Federated learning (FL) research has made progress in developing algorithms for distributed learning of global models, as well as algorithms for local personalization of those common models to the specifics of each client's local data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Royson Lee , Minyoung Kim , Da Li , Xinchi Qiu , Timothy Hospedales , Ferenc Huszár , Nicholas D. Lane

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a new paradigm for privacy-preserving computation in recent years. Unfortunately, FL faces two critical challenges that hinder its actual performance: data distribution heterogeneity and high resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Wang Lu , Xixu Hu , Jindong Wang , Xing Xie

Personalized Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging research field in FL that learns an easily adaptable global model in the presence of data heterogeneity among clients. However, one of the main challenges for personalized FL is the heavy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Jaehun Song , Min-hwan Oh , Hyung-Sin Kim

Personalized federated learning (PFL) reduces the impact of non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data among clients by allowing each client to train a personalized model when collaborating with others. A key question in PFL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Xinghao Wu , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu , Guogang Zhu , Shaojie Tang

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

Personalized federated learning (PFL) is a popular framework that allows clients to have different models to address application scenarios where clients' data are in different domains. The typical model of a client in PFL features a global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Guogang Zhu , Xuefeng Liu , Shaojie Tang , Jianwei Niu , Xinghao Wu , Jiaxing Shen

In the context of Federated Learning with heterogeneous data environments, local models tend to converge to their own local model optima during local training steps, deviating from the overall data distributions. Aggregation of these local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Mortesa Hussaini , Jan Theiß , Anthony Stein

Vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive zero-shot and few-shot learning capabilities, making them essential for several downstream tasks. However, fine-tuning these models at scale remains challenging, particularly in federated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arkajyoti Mitra , Afia Anjum , Paul Agbaje , Mert Pesé , Habeeb Olufowobi

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

In Federated Learning (FL), the clients learn a single global model (FedAvg) through a central aggregator. In this setting, the non-IID distribution of the data across clients restricts the global FL model from delivering good performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Siddharth Divi , Yi-Shan Lin , Habiba Farrukh , Z. Berkay Celik