English
Related papers

Related papers: ZooPFL: Exploring Black-box Foundation Models for …

200 papers

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm where clients collaboratively train a model while keeping their own data private. With an increasing scale of clients and models, FL encounters two key challenges, client drift due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jianhui Sun , Xidong Wu , Heng Huang , Aidong Zhang

We investigate the optimization aspects of personalized Federated Learning (FL). We propose general optimizers that can be applied to numerous existing personalized FL objectives, specifically a tailored variant of Local SGD and variants of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Filip Hanzely , Boxin Zhao , Mladen Kolar

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed model training from local data collected by users. In distributed systems with constrained resources and potentially high dynamics, e.g., mobile edge networks, the efficiency of FL is an important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Shiqiang Wang , Jake Perazzone , Mingyue Ji , Kevin S. Chan

Foundation models have revolutionized artificial intelligence by providing robust, versatile architectures pre-trained on large-scale datasets. However, adapting these massive models to specific downstream tasks requires fine-tuning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jieming Bian , Yuanzhe Peng , Lei Wang , Yin Huang , Jie Xu

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 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

Integrating Foundation Models (FMs) into recommendation systems is an emerging and promising research direction. However, centralized paradigms face growing pressure from privacy concerns and strict regulatory requirements. Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Chunxu Zhang , Honglei Zhang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

In Federated Learning (FL), multiple clients collaborate to learn a shared model through a central server while keeping data decentralized. Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) further extends FL by learning a personalized model per…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ohad Amosy , Gal Eyal , Gal Chechik

Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing local data, preserving privacy in diverse environments. While traditional FL approaches preserve privacy, they often struggle with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Nan Li , Xiaolu Wang , Xiao Du , Puyu Cai , Ting Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed learning across edge devices while protecting data privacy. However, the learning accuracy decreases due to the heterogeneity of devices' data, and the computation and communication latency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xiaonan Liu , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah , Mathini Sellathurai , Yonina C. Eldar

Large machine learning models trained on diverse data have recently seen unprecedented success. Federated learning enables training on private data that may otherwise be inaccessible, such as domain-specific datasets decentralized across…

Federated Learning (FL) faces challenges from client data heterogeneity and resource-constrained mobile devices, which can degrade model accuracy. Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) addresses this issue by adapting shared global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xingyan Chen , Tian Du , Changqiao Xu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Lujie Zhong , Gabriel-Miro Muntean , Enmao Diao

Federated Learning (FL) provides a decentralized machine learning approach, where multiple devices or servers collaboratively train a model without sharing their raw data, thus enabling data privacy. This approach has gained significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Mahad Ali , Curtis Lisle , Patrick W. Moore , Tammer Barkouki , Brian J. Kirkwood , Laura J. Brattain

Classical federated learning (FL) enables training machine learning models without sharing data for privacy preservation, but heterogeneous data characteristic degrades the performance of the localized model. Personalized FL (PFL) addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Mingjia Shi , Yuhao Zhou , Kai Wang , Huaizheng Zhang , Shudong Huang , Qing Ye , Jiangcheng Lv

Personalization aims to characterize individual preferences and is widely applied across many fields. However, conventional personalized methods operate in a centralized manner, potentially exposing raw data when pooling individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Hao Di , Yi Yang , Haishan Ye , Xiangyu Chang

We present PeFLL, a new personalized federated learning algorithm that improves over the state-of-the-art in three aspects: 1) it produces more accurate models, especially in the low-data regime, and not only for clients present during its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Jonathan Scott , Hossein Zakerinia , Christoph H. Lampert

Federated learning faces huge challenges from model overfitting due to the lack of data and statistical diversity among clients. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel personalized federated learning method via Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Xu Zhang , Yinchuan Li , Wenpeng Li , Kaiyang Guo , Yunfeng Shao

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving training method which consists of training from a plurality of clients but without sharing their confidential data. However, previous work on federated learning do not explore suitable neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Shuhei Nitta , Taiji Suzuki , Albert Rodríguez Mulet , Atsushi Yaguchi , Ryusuke Hirai

Federated learning (FL) is an effective and widely used approach to training deep learning models on decentralized datasets held by distinct clients. FL also strengthens both security and privacy protections for training data. Common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sana Ayromlou , Fatemeh Tavakoli , D. B. Emerson

Federated learning enables distributed clients to collaborate on training while storing their data locally to protect client privacy. However, due to the heterogeneity of data, models, and devices, the final global model may need to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Wolong Xing , Zhenkui Shi , Hongyan Peng , Xiantao Hu , Xianxian Li