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Federated learning has recently gained popularity as a framework for distributed clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model using local data. While traditional federated learning relies on a central server for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 I-Cheng Lin , Osman Yagan , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-protected machine learning paradigm that allows model to be trained directly at the edge without uploading data. One of the biggest challenges faced by FL in practical applications is the heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zirui Zhu , Ziyi Ye

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.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Jing Cao , Zirui Lian , Weihong Liu , Zongwei Zhu , Cheng Ji

Federated Learning (FL) often adopts differential privacy (DP) to protect client data, but the added noise required for privacy guarantees can substantially degrade model accuracy. To resolve this challenge, we propose model-splitting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yiwei Li , Shuai Wang , Zhuojun Tian , Xiuhua Wang , Shijian Su

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of models across distributed clients without sharing local data, addressing privacy concerns in decentralized systems. However, the gradient-sharing process exposes private data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingcong Xu , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen , Hai Jin

To address the communication burden issues associated with federated learning (FL), decentralized federated learning (DFL) discards the central server and establishes a decentralized communication network, where each client communicates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Qinglun Li , Li Shen , Guanghao Li , Quanjun Yin , Dacheng Tao

Federated Learning (FL) faces major challenges regarding communication overhead and model privacy when training large language models (LLMs), especially in healthcare applications. To address these, we introduce Selective Attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yue Li , Lihong Zhang

Federated learning, as a distributed architecture, shows great promise for applications in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS). In order to mitigate the privacy risks inherent in CPSS, the integration of differential privacy with federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jiayi Wan , Xiang Zhu , Fanzhen Liu , Wei Fan , Xiaolong Xu

Federated learning (FL) scenarios inherently generate a large communication overhead by frequently transmitting neural network updates between clients and server. To minimize the communication cost, introducing sparsity in conjunction with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Daniel Becking , Heiner Kirchhoffer , Gerhard Tech , Paul Haase , Karsten Müller , Heiko Schwarz , Wojciech Samek

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 (FL) is a decentralized machine learning (ML) paradigm in which models are trained on private data across several devices called clients and combined at a single node called an aggregator rather than aggregating the data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sarang S , Druva Dhakshinamoorthy , Aditya Shiva Sharma , Yuvraj Singh Bhadauria , Siddharth Chaitra Vivek , Arihant Bansal , Arnab K. Paul

Federated Learning (FL) is transforming the ML training ecosystem from a centralized over-the-cloud setting to distributed training over edge devices in order to strengthen data privacy. An essential but rarely studied challenge in FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Chaoyang He , Zhengyu Yang , Erum Mushtaq , Sunwoo Lee , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr

Federated learning (FL) enables training of a global model while keeping raw data on end-devices. Despite this, FL has shown to leak private user information and thus in practice, it is often coupled with methods such as differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jie Xu , Haaris Mehmood , Rogier Van Dalen , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Mete Ozay

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm enabling collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. In today's landscape, where most data is proprietary, confidential, and distributed, FL has become a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zilinghan Li , Shilan He , Ze Yang , Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim , Ravi Madduri

Secure and reliable medical image classification is crucial for effective patient treatment, but centralized models face challenges due to data and privacy concerns. Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborations but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Gousia Habib , Aniket Bhardwaj , Ritvik Sharma , Shoeib Amin Banday , Ishfaq Ahmad Malik

In emerging networked systems, mobile edge devices such as ground vehicles and unmanned aerial system (UAS) swarms collectively aggregate vast amounts of data to make machine learning decisions such as threat detection in remote, dynamic,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Utku Demir , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sastry Kompella , Mengran Xue

Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale distributed training of machine learning models, while still allowing individual nodes to maintain data locally. However, executing FL at scale comes with inherent practical challenges: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hossein Zakerinia , Shayan Talaei , Giorgi Nadiradze , Dan Alistarh

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables devices to collaboratively train models over complex network topologies without relying on a central controller. In this setting, local data remains private, but its quality and quantity can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Samuele Sabella , Chiara Boldrini , Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging promising paradigm of privacy-preserving machine learning (ML). An important type of FL is cross-silo FL, which enables a small scale of organizations to cooperatively train a shared model by keeping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jialiang Han , Yudong Han , Gang Huang , Yun Ma

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique that allows model training among multiple devices or organizations by sharing training parameters instead of raw data. However, adversaries can still infer individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xinpeng Ling , Jie Fu , Kuncan Wang , Haitao Liu , Zhili Chen