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Federated learning (FL) involves multiple distributed devices jointly training a shared model without any of the participants having to reveal their local data to a centralized server. Most of previous FL approaches assume that data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Yujing Chen , Zheng Chai , Yue Cheng , Huzefa Rangwala

Federated Learning (FL) is designed as a decentralized, privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their data. In real-world scenarios, however, clients often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Maulidi Adi Prasetia , Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Guntur Dharma Putra

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm enabling collaborative model training on decentralized devices without exposing their local data. A key challenge in FL is the uneven data distribution across…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Md Sirajul Islam , Simin Javaherian , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng

State-of-the-art backpropagation-free learning methods employ local error feedback to direct iterative optimisation via gradient descent. Here, we examine the more restrictive setting where retrograde communication from neuronal outputs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Robert O'Shea , Bipin Rajendran

Federated Learning (FL) is a variant of distributed learning where edge devices collaborate to learn a model without sharing their data with the central server or each other. We refer to the process of training multiple independent models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Neelkamal Bhuyan , Sharayu Moharir , Gauri Joshi

Federated learning (FL) addresses privacy concerns in training language models by enabling multiple clients to contribute to the training, without sending their data to others. However, non-IID (identically and independently distributed)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jong-Ik Park , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving paradigm for training machine learning models across distributed edge devices in the Internet of Things (IoT). By keeping data local and coordinating model training through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ziru Niu , Hai Dong , A. K. Qin , Tao Gu , Pengcheng Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that enables training on decentralized data while preserving privacy. However, FL systems often involve resource-constrained client devices with limited computational power,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Alexander Herzog , Robbie Southam , Ioannis Mavromatis , Aftab Khan

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training without sharing local data. Despite its advantages, FL suffers from substantial communication overhead, which can affect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Shiwei Li , Qunwei Li , Haozhao Wang , Ruixuan Li , Jianbin Lin , Wenliang Zhong

Combining different data modalities enables deep neural networks to tackle complex tasks more effectively, making multimodal learning increasingly popular. To harness multimodal data closer to end users, it is essential to integrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ye Lin Tun , Chu Myaet Thwal , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that facilitates massively distributed model training with end-user data on edge devices directed by a central server. However, the large number of heterogeneous clients in FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Qifan Yan , Andrew Liu , Shiqi He , Mathias Lécuyer , Ivan Beschastnikh

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative model training among distributed parties without pooling local datasets at a central server. However, the distributed nature of FL poses challenges in training fair federated learning models. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yi Zhou , Naman Goel

Federated learning (FL) offers privacy preserving, distributed machine learning, allowing clients to contribute to a global model without revealing their local data. As models increasingly serve as monetizable digital assets, the ability to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Devriş İşler , Elina van Kempen , Seoyeon Hwang , Nikolaos Laoutaris

Federated Learning (FL) seeks to distribute model training across local clients without collecting data in a centralized data-center, hence removing data-privacy concerns. A major challenge for FL is data heterogeneity (where each client's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Junjiao Tian , James Seale Smith , Zsolt Kira

Federated learning (FL) enables resource-constrained edge nodes to collaboratively learn a global model under the orchestration of a central server while keeping privacy-sensitive data locally. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Hongda Wu , Ping Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a promising and powerful approach for training deep learning models without sharing the raw data of clients. During the training process of FL, the central server and distributed clients need to exchange a vast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zhefeng Qiao , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique used to collaboratively train a global machine learning model while keeping the data localized on the user devices. The main obstacle to FL's practical implementation is the Non-Independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Hiep Nguyen , Lam Phan , Harikrishna Warrier , Yogesh Gupta

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative training of machine learning models over decentralized devices without exposing their local data. One of the major challenges in FL is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Md Sirajul Islam , Simin Javaherian , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng

In contrast to centralized model training that involves data collection, federated learning (FL) enables remote clients to collaboratively train a model without exposing their private data. However, model performance usually degrades in FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Ye Lin Tun , Chu Myaet Thwal , Yu Min Park , Seong-Bae Park , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning (FL) allows remote clients to train a global model collaboratively while protecting client privacy. Despite its privacy-preserving benefits, FL has significant drawbacks, including slow convergence, high communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , YangQuan Chen