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Federated Learning (FL) aims at unburdening the training of deep models by distributing computation across multiple devices (clients) while safeguarding data privacy. On top of that, Federated Continual Learning (FCL) also accounts for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Riccardo Salami , Pietro Buzzega , Matteo Mosconi , Mattia Verasani , Simone Calderara

Conventional federated learning (FL) frameworks follow a server-driven model where the server determines session initiation and client participation, which faces challenges in accommodating clients' asynchronous needs for model updates. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Songze Li , Chenqing Zhu

Federated learning (FL) is a challenging setting for optimization due to the heterogeneity of the data across different clients which gives rise to the client drift phenomenon. In fact, obtaining an algorithm for FL which is uniformly…

Federated learning is a paradigm of joint learning in which clients collaborate by sharing model parameters instead of data. However, in the non-iid setting, the global model experiences client drift, which can seriously affect the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiaze Li , Haoran Xu , Wanyi Wu , Changwei Wang , Shuaiguang Li , Jianzhong Ju , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan , Youyang Qu , Longxiang Gao , Xudong Yang , Lumin Xing

This work addresses the key challenges of applying federated learning to large-scale deep neural networks, particularly the issue of client drift due to data heterogeneity across clients and the high costs of communication, computation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Jiaojiao Zhang , Yuqi Xu , Kun Yuan

Federated Learning (FL) models often experience client drift caused by heterogeneous data, where the distribution of data differs across clients. To address this issue, advanced research primarily focuses on manipulating the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zhenheng Tang , Yonggang Zhang , Shaohuai Shi , Xinmei Tian , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han , Xiaowen Chu

Catastrophic forgetting (CF) poses a persistent challenge in continual learning (CL), especially within federated learning (FL) environments characterized by non-i.i.d. time series data. While existing research has largely focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Khaled Hallak , Oudom Kem

The performance of Federated Learning (FL) hinges on the effectiveness of utilizing knowledge from distributed datasets. Traditional FL methods adopt an aggregate-then-adapt framework, where clients update local models based on a global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yuan Wang , Huazhu Fu , Renuga Kanagavelu , Qingsong Wei , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh

A novel federated learning training framework for heterogeneous environments is presented, taking into account the diverse network speeds of clients in realistic settings. This framework integrates asynchronous learning algorithms and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chengjie Ma

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collectively train a high-performance global model without sharing their private data. However, the key challenge in federated learning is that the clients have significant statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Liang Gao , Huazhu Fu , Li Li , Yingwen Chen , Ming Xu , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to train a model while keeping their data private collaboratively. Previous studies have shown that data heterogeneity between clients leads to drifts across client updates. However, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Tailin Zhou , Jun Zhang , Danny H. K. Tsang

Federated Continual Learning (FCL) has recently emerged as a crucial research area, as data from distributed clients typically arrives as a stream, requiring sequential learning. This paper explores a more practical and challenging FCL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Minh-Duong Nguyen , Le-Tuan Nguyen , Quoc-Viet Pham

Federated learning is a distributed optimization paradigm that enables a large number of resource-limited client nodes to cooperatively train a model without data sharing. Several works have analyzed the convergence of federated learning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yae Jee Cho , Jianyu Wang , Gauri Joshi

Learning from the collective knowledge of data dispersed across private sources can provide neural networks with enhanced generalization capabilities. Federated learning, a method for collaboratively training a machine learning model across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Matt Gorbett , Hossein Shirazi , Indrakshi Ray

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared model without exposing their private data. Data heterogeneity is a fundamental challenge in FL, which can result in poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Tao Shen , Zexi Li , Didi Zhu , Ziyu Zhao , Chao Wu , Fei Wu

We study a new form of federated learning where the clients train personalized local models and make predictions jointly with the server-side shared model. Using this new federated learning framework, the complexity of the central shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Alekh Agarwal , John Langford , Chen-Yu Wei

Federated Learning (FL) enables the multiple participating devices to collaboratively contribute to a global neural network model while keeping the training data locally. Unlike the centralized training setting, the non-IID, imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Moming Duan , Duo Liu , Xinyuan Ji , Yu Wu , Liang Liang , Xianzhang Chen , Yujuan Tan

In this work, we study the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting in the graph representation learning scenario. The primary objective of the analysis is to understand whether classical continual learning techniques for flat and sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Antonio Carta , Andrea Cossu , Federico Errica , Davide Bacciu

Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving multi-source information fusion (MSIF) but is challenged by client drift in highly heterogeneous data settings. Many existing drift-mitigation strategies rely on reference-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jungwon Seo , Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Chunming Rong , Kibeom Hong , Minhoe Kim

In this paper, we focus on the important yet understudied problem of Continual Federated Learning (CFL), where a server communicates with a set of clients to incrementally learn new concepts over time without sharing or storing any data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shaunak Halbe , James Seale Smith , Junjiao Tian , Zsolt Kira