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Decentralized federated learning (FL) is a promising approach for training machine learning models on sensor networks, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and other edge systems where no central server exists. While federated learning offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Akihito Taya , Yuuki Nishiyama , Kaoru Sezaki

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, data and system heterogeneity often cause catastrophic forgetting and unbounded drift in model updates, leading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Taehwan Yoon , Bongjun Choi , Wesley De Neve

Federated learning (FL) enables a loose set of participating clients to collaboratively learn a global model via coordination by a central server and with no need for data sharing. Existing FL approaches that rely on complex algorithms with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kazim Ergun , Rishikanth Chandrasekaran , Tajana Rosing

We propose Federated Preconditioned Mixing (FedPM), a novel Federated Learning (FL) method that leverages second-order optimization. Prior methods--such as LocalNewton, LTDA, and FedSophia--have incorporated second-order optimization in FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Hiro Ishii , Kenta Niwa , Hiroshi Sawada , Akinori Fujino , Noboru Harada , Rio Yokota

Federated learning (FL) is a promising strategy for performing privacy-preserving, distributed learning with a network of clients (i.e., edge devices). However, the data distribution among clients is often non-IID in nature, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Matias Mendieta , Taojiannan Yang , Pu Wang , Minwoo Lee , Zhengming Ding , Chen Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a popular privacy-preserving paradigm that enables distributed clients to collaboratively train models with a central server while keeping raw data locally. In practice, distinct model architectures, varying data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuting Ma , Lechao Cheng , Yaxiong Wang , Zhun Zhong , Xiaohua Xu , Meng Wang

In Federated Learning (FL), forgetting, or the loss of knowledge across rounds, hampers algorithm convergence, particularly in the presence of severe data heterogeneity among clients. This study explores the nuances of this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Mohammed Aljahdali , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Marco Canini , Samuel Horváth

Federated Learning (FL) is a powerful framework for privacy-preserving distributed learning. It enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing raw data. However, handling noisy labels in FL remains a major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Seunghun Yu , Jin-Hyun Ahn , Joonhyuk Kang

As a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) enables all the involved devices to train a global model collaboratively without exposing their local data privacy. However, for non-IID scenarios, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ming Hu , Tian Liu , Zhiwei Ling , Zhihao Yue , Mingsong Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a general framework for learning across an axis of group partitioned data (heterogeneous clients) while preserving data privacy, under the orchestration of a central server. FL methods often compute gradients of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Keith Rush , Zachary Charles , Zachary Garrett

Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning framework which jointly trains a global model via a large number of local devices with data privacy protections. Its performance suffers from the non-vanishing biases introduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yan Sun , Li Shen , Tiansheng Huang , Liang Ding , Dacheng Tao

Foundation models are now a major focus of leading technology organizations due to their ability to generalize across diverse tasks. Existing approaches for adapting foundation models to new applications often rely on Federated Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jong-Ik Park , Srinivasa Pranav , José M. F. Moura , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that allows several clients to learn a global model without sharing their private data. In this paper, we generalize a primal dual fixed point (PDFP) \cite{PDFP} method to federated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Ya-Nan Zhu , Jingwei Liang , Xiaoqun Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a global model whose performance is boosted by private data owned by distributed clients, without compromising data privacy. Yet the wide applicability of FL is hindered by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xinyuan Zhao , Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Yuxing Han , Qiang Yang

Federated Learning (FL) has become a popular paradigm for learning from distributed data. To effectively utilize data at different devices without moving them to the cloud, algorithms such as the Federated Averaging (FedAvg) have adopted a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Xinwei Zhang , Mingyi Hong , Sairaj Dhople , Wotao Yin , Yang Liu

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm designed to protect user data privacy, which has been successfully implemented across various scenarios. In traditional federated learning, the entire parameter set of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Haolin Wang , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu , Wenkai Guo , Shaojie Tang

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that enables multiple local clients and a central server to collaboratively train a model while keeping the data on their own devices. First-order methods, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Xue Feng , M. Paul Laiu , Thomas Strohmer

Personalised federated learning (FL) aims at collaboratively learning a machine learning model taylored for each client. Albeit promising advances have been made in this direction, most of existing approaches works do not allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Nikita Kotelevskii , Maxime Vono , Eric Moulines , Alain Durmus

Federated Learning is a distributed machine-learning environment that allows clients to learn collaboratively without sharing private data. This is accomplished by exchanging parameters. However, the differences in data distributions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Kuang Hangdong , Mi Bo

Aiming at privacy preservation, Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning approach enabling model training on decentralized devices or data sources. The learning mechanism of FL relies on aggregating parameter updates from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jiayan Chen , Zhirong Qian , Tianhui Meng , Xitong Gao , Tian Wang , Weijia Jia