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Personalization is pervasive in the online space as, when combined with learning, it leads to higher efficiency and revenue by allowing the most relevant content to be served to each user. However, recent studies suggest that such…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-07-10 L. Elisa Celis , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Federated learning involves training statistical models over remote devices such as mobile phones while keeping data localized. Training in heterogeneous and potentially massive networks introduces opportunities for privacy-preserving data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Afra Mashhadi , Alex Kyllo , Reza M. Parizi

Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning framework aiming at protecting data privacy. Data heterogeneity is one of the core challenges in federated learning, which could severely degrade the convergence rate and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-27 Feifei Wang , Huiyun Tang , Yang Li

Past research has demonstrated that the explicit use of protected attributes in machine learning can improve both performance and fairness. Many machine learning algorithms, however, cannot directly process categorical attributes, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Carlos Mougan , Jose M. Alvarez , Salvatore Ruggieri , Steffen Staab

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique, where each device contributes to the learning model by independently computing the gradient based on its local training data. It has recently become a hot research topic,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Afaf Taïk , Soumaya Cherkaoui

Federated learning provides an effective paradigm to jointly optimize a model benefited from rich distributed data while protecting data privacy. Nonetheless, the heterogeneity nature of distributed data makes it challenging to define and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Linyi Li , Mintong Kang , Bo Li , Ruta Mehta

Recent advances in Federated Learning (FL) have brought large-scale collaborative machine learning opportunities for massively distributed clients with performance and data privacy guarantees. However, most current works focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yuxin Shi , Han Yu , Cyril Leung

Machine learning actively impacts our everyday life in almost all endeavors and domains such as healthcare, finance, and energy. As our dependence on the machine learning increases, it is inevitable that these algorithms will be used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Ankit Kulshrestha , Ilya Safro

Artificial Intelligence has the potential to exacerbate societal bias and set back decades of advances in equal rights and civil liberty. Data used to train machine learning algorithms may capture social injustices, inequality or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Susan Leavy , Barry O'Sullivan , Eugenia Siapera

This work studies the distributed learning process on a network of agents. Agents make partial observation about an unknown hypothesis and iteratively share their beliefs over a set of possible hypotheses with their neighbors to learn the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 P Raghavendra Rao , Pooja Vyavahare

Federated learning holds great promise in learning from fragmented sensitive data and has revolutionized how machine learning models are trained. This article provides a systematic overview and detailed taxonomy of federated learning. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Sherin Mary Mathews , Samuel A. Assefa

Federated Learning (FL) is a learning mechanism that falls under the distributed training umbrella, which collaboratively trains a shared global model without disclosing the raw data from different clients. This paper presents an extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mrinmay Sen , Shruti Aparna , Rohit Agarwal , Chalavadi Krishna Mohan

Federated learning allows clients to collaboratively learn statistical models while keeping their data local. Federated learning was originally used to train a unique global model to be served to all clients, but this approach might be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Othmane Marfoq , Giovanni Neglia , Laetitia Kameni , Richard Vidal

Sensitive attributes such as race are rarely available to learners in real world settings as their collection is often restricted by laws and regulations. We give a scheme that allows individuals to release their sensitive information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Hussein Mozannar , Mesrob I. Ohannessian , Nathan Srebro

Model fairness is an essential element for Trustworthy AI. While many techniques for model fairness have been proposed, most of them assume that the training and deployment data distributions are identical, which is often not true in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yuji Roh , Kangwook Lee , Steven Euijong Whang , Changho Suh

Federated learning (FL) emerges as a popular distributed learning schema that learns a model from a set of participating users without sharing raw data. One major challenge of FL comes with heterogeneous users, who may have distributionally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Junyuan Hong , Haotao Wang , Zhangyang Wang , Jiayu Zhou

Federated learning improves data privacy and efficiency in machine learning performed over networks of distributed devices, such as mobile phones, IoT and wearable devices, etc. Yet models trained with federated learning can still fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xingchao Peng , Zijun Huang , Yizhe Zhu , Kate Saenko

In recent advancements in machine learning, federated learning allows a network of distributed clients to collaboratively develop a global model without needing to share their local data. This technique aims to safeguard privacy, countering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Davide Domini , Gianluca Aguzzi , Nicolas Farabegoli , Mirko Viroli , Lukas Esterle

Repeated parameter sharing in federated learning causes significant information leakage about private data, thus defeating its main purpose: data privacy. Mitigating the risk of this information leakage, using state of the art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zebang Shen , Jiayuan Ye , Anmin Kang , Hamed Hassani , Reza Shokri

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning approach where multiple clients collaboratively train a model without sharing their local data, which contributes to preserving privacy. A challenge in federated learning is managing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Rickard Brännvall