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Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed edge devices while preserving data privacy, and typically operates in a round-based synchronous manner. However, synchronous FL suffers from latency bottlenecks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Asaf Goren , Natalie Lang , Nir Shlezinger , Alejandro Cohen

Introducing blockchain into Federated Learning (FL) to build a trusted edge computing environment for transmission and learning has attracted widespread attention as a new decentralized learning pattern. However, traditional consensus…

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Federated learning (FL) aims at optimizing a shared global model over multiple edge devices without transmitting (private) data to the central server. While it is theoretically well-known that FL yields an optimal model -- centrally trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Youngjoon Lee , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated learning (FL) enables massive distributed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) devices to learn a global consensus model without any participants revealing their own data to the central server. However, the practicality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Zhikun Chen , Daofeng Li , Ming Zhao , Sihai Zhang , Jinkang Zhu

Federated Learning (FL) trains deep models across edge devices without centralizing raw data, preserving user privacy. However, client heterogeneity slows down convergence and limits global model accuracy. Clustered FL (CFL) mitigates this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Minghao Li , Dmitrii Avdiukhin , Rana Shahout , Nikita Ivkin , Vladimir Braverman , Minlan Yu

Federated Learning (FL) is a well-known framework for successfully performing a learning task in an edge computing scenario where the devices involved have limited resources and incomplete data representation. The basic assumption of FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Lorenzo Valerio , Chiara Boldrini , Andrea Passarella , János Kertész , Márton Karsai , Gerardo Iñiguez

Federated Learning (FL) since proposed has been applied in many fields, such as credit assessment, medical, etc. Because of the difference in the network or computing resource, the clients may not update their gradients at the same time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Zhicheng Zhou , Hailong Chen , Kunhua Li , Fei Hu , Bingjie Yan , Jieren Cheng , Xuyan Wei , Bernie Liu , Xiulai Li , Fuwen Chen , Yongji Sui

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients while preserving data privacy. Traditional FL methods often use a global model to fit all clients, assuming that clients' data are independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Dario Fenoglio , Mohan Li , Pietro Barbiero , Nicholas D. Lane , Marc Langheinrich , Martin Gjoreski

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a key paradigm for collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing raw data, enabling privacy-preserving applications in areas such as radiology and pathology. However, works on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Furkan Pala , Islem Rekik

Federated learning (FL) aims to train machine learning (ML) models collaboratively using decentralized data, bypassing the need for centralized data aggregation. Standard FL models often assume that all data come from the same unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Wen Bai , Yi Wong , Xiao Qiao , Chin Pang Ho

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is an emerging paradigm to enable edge devices collaboratively training a learning model using a device-to-device (D2D) communication manner without the coordination of a parameter server (PS).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang , Geoffrey Ye Li

Federated learning has gained popularity as a means of training models distributed across the wireless edge. The paper introduces delay-aware hierarchical federated learning (DFL) to improve the efficiency of distributed machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Frank Po-Chen Lin , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Nicolò Michelusi , Christopher Brinton

Federated Learning (FL) deals with learning a central model (i.e. the server) in privacy-constrained scenarios, where data are stored on multiple devices (i.e. the clients). The central model has no direct access to the data, but only to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Debora Caldarola , Massimiliano Mancini , Fabio Galasso , Marco Ciccone , Emanuele Rodolà , Barbara Caputo

Clustered federated learning (CFL) addresses the performance challenges posed by data heterogeneity in federated learning (FL) by organizing edge devices with similar data distributions into clusters, enabling collaborative model training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yuxin Zhang , Haoyu Chen , Zheng Lin , Zhe Chen , Jin Zhao

Clustered Federated Learning (CFL) improves performance under non-IID client heterogeneity by clustering clients and training one model per cluster, thereby balancing between a global model and fully personalized models. However, most CFL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Mariona Jaramillo-Civill , Peng Wu , Pau Closas

Federated learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning framework where distributed clients collaboratively train a machine learning model coordinated by a server. To tackle the stragglers issue in asynchronous FL, we consider that each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jiarong Yang , Yuan Liu , Fangjiong Chen , Wen Chen , Changle Li

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) captures FL settings where both (i) model updates and (ii) model aggregations are exclusively carried out by the clients without a central server. Existing DFL works have mostly focused on settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shahryar Zehtabi , Dong-Jun Han , Rohit Parasnis , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized approach for collaborative model training on edge devices. This distributed method of model training offers advantages in privacy, security, regulatory compliance, and cost-efficiency. Our emphasis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Charuka Herath , Xiaolan Liu , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Yogachandran Rahulamathavan

Federated Learning (FL) has become a key choice for distributed machine learning. Initially focused on centralized aggregation, recent works in FL have emphasized greater decentralization to adapt to the highly heterogeneous network edge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ahnaf Hannan Lodhi , Barış Akgün , Öznur Özkasap

Federated learning (FL) supports training models on geographically distributed devices. However, traditional FL systems adopt a centralized synchronous strategy, putting high communication pressure and model generalization challenge.…

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