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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent privacy-preserving technique for enabling use cases like confidential clinical machine learning. FL operates by aggregating models trained by remote devices which owns the data. Thus, FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Michael Duchesne , Kaiwen Zhang , Chamseddine Talhi

Federated edge learning (FEEL) provides a promising foundation for edge artificial intelligence (AI) by enabling collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, limited and heterogeneous local datasets, as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xinnong Du , Zhonghao Lyu , Xiaowen Cao , Chunyang Wen , Shuguang Cui , Jie Xu

Fair prediction across protected groups is an important constraint for many federated learning applications. However, prior work studying group fair federated learning lacks formal convergence or fairness guarantees. In this work we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Shengyuan Hu , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Virginia Smith

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that learns a shared model across decentralized clients. It can alleviate privacy concerns of personal re-identification, an important computer vision task. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Weiming Zhuang , Yonggang Wen , Xuesen Zhang , Xin Gan , Daiying Yin , Dongzhan Zhou , Shuai Zhang , Shuai Yi

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning framework facilitating collaborative training across distributed clients. However, its performance is often compromised by data heterogeneity among participants, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ziru Niu , Hai Dong , A. K. Qin

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed management framework based on collaborative model training of distributed devices in edge networks. However, recent studies have shown that FL is vulnerable to adversarial examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yu Qiao , Apurba Adhikary , Chaoning Zhang , Choong Seon Hong

Federated graph learning (FGL) has become an important research topic in response to the increasing scale and the distributed nature of graph-structured data in the real world. In FGL, a global graph is distributed across different clients,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Binchi Zhang , Minnan Luo , Shangbin Feng , Ziqi Liu , Jun Zhou , Qinghua Zheng

Current approaches to group fairness in federated learning assume the existence of predefined and labeled sensitive groups during training. However, due to factors ranging from emerging regulations to dynamics and location-dependency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Afroditi Papadaki , Natalia Martinez , Martin Bertran , Guillermo Sapiro , Miguel Rodrigues

As a promising method of central model training on decentralized device data while securing user privacy, Federated Learning (FL)is becoming popular in Internet of Things (IoT) design. However, when the data collected by IoT devices are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Tian Liu , Jiahao Ding , Ting Wang , Miao Pan , Mingsong Chen

Federated Learning is a framework that jointly trains a model \textit{with} complete knowledge on a remotely placed centralized server, but \textit{without} the requirement of accessing the data stored in distributed machines. Some work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jia Qian , Lars Kai Hansen , Xenofon Fafoutis , Prayag Tiwari , Hari Mohan Pandey

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique that enables a large amount of edge computing devices to collaboratively train a global learning model. Due to privacy concerns, the raw data on devices could not be available for centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Miao Yang , Akitanoshou Wong , Hongbin Zhu , Haifeng Wang , Hua Qian

Federated learning is an efficient framework designed to facilitate collaborative model training across multiple distributed devices while preserving user data privacy. A significant challenge of federated learning is data-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Shunxin Guo , Hongsong Wang , Shuxia Lin , Zhiqiang Kou , Xin Geng

Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning framework for privacy preservation. However, models trained in federated learning usually have worse performance than those trained in the standard centralized learning mode,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Hangyu Zhu , Jinjin Xu , Shiqing Liu , Yaochu Jin

Federated edge learning is a promising technology to deploy intelligence at the edge of wireless networks in a privacy-preserving manner. Under such a setting, multiple clients collaboratively train a global generic model under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Zihan Chen , Zeshen Li , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Heterogeneous federated learning (HFL) aims to ensure effective and privacy-preserving collaboration among different entities. As newly joined clients require significant adjustments and additional training to align with the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kaile Wang , Jiannong Cao , Yu Yang , Xiaoyin Li , Mingjin Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized AI mechanism suitable for a large number of devices like in smart IoT. A major challenge of FL is the non-IID dataset problem, originating from the heterogeneous data collected by FL participants,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Minkwon Lee , Hyoil Kim , Changhee Joo

We show that participating in federated learning can be detrimental to group fairness. In fact, the bias of a few parties against under-represented groups (identified by sensitive attributes such as gender or race) can propagate through the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hongyan Chang , Reza Shokri

Federated learning is a promising framework to train neural networks with widely distributed data. However, performance degrades heavily with heterogeneously distributed data. Recent work has shown this is due to the final layer of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ha Min Son , Moon-Hyun Kim , Tai-Myoung Chung , Chao Huang , Xin Liu

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising framework for distributed learning when data is private and sensitive. However, the state-of-the-art solutions in this framework are not optimal when data is heterogeneous and non-Independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Martin Isaksson , Edvin Listo Zec , Rickard Cöster , Daniel Gillblad , Šarūnas Girdzijauskas

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralised model training across distributed clients without requiring data centralisation. However, the generalisation performance of the global model is usually degraded by data heterogeneity across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault