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In recent years, multi-objective optimization (MOO) emerges as a foundational problem underpinning many multi-agent multi-task learning applications. However, existing algorithms in MOO literature remain limited to centralized learning…

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In distributed learning settings such as federated learning, the training algorithm can be potentially biased towards different clients. Mohri et al. (2019) proposed a domain-agnostic learning algorithm, where the model is optimized for any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Jae Ro , Mingqing Chen , Rajiv Mathews , Mehryar Mohri , Ananda Theertha Suresh

Composite federated learning offers a general framework for solving machine learning problems with additional regularization terms. However, existing methods often face significant limitations: many require clients to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yuan Zhou , Jiachen Zhong , Xinli Shi , Guanghui Wen , Xinghuo Yu

Federated learning is highly valued due to its high-performance computing in distributed environments while safeguarding data privacy. To address resource heterogeneity, researchers have proposed a semi-asynchronous federated learning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yunbo Li , Jiaping Gui , Yue Wu

Federated learning enables a population of clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without exchanging their raw data, but standard algorithms such as FedAvg suffer from slow convergence and high communication and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yutong He , Zhengyang Huang , Jiahe Geng

We study a federated version of multi-objective optimization (MOO), where a single model is trained to optimize multiple objective functions. MOO has been extensively studied in the centralized setting but is less explored in federated or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Baris Askin , Pranay Sharma , Gauri Joshi , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated learning (FL) is a promising framework for learning from distributed data while maintaining privacy. The development of efficient FL algorithms encounters various challenges, including heterogeneous data and systems, limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yongcun Song , Ziqi Wang , Enrique Zuazua

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared model while keeping their data on-premise. However, the straggler issue, due to slow clients, often hinders the efficiency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Hongpeng Guo , Haotian Gu , Xiaoyang Wang , Bo Chen , Eun Kyung Lee , Tamar Eilam , Deming Chen , Klara Nahrstedt

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and widespread use of devices with sensing, computing, and communication capabilities have motivated intelligent applications empowered by artificial intelligence. The classical artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Zunming Chen , Hongyan Cui , Ensen Wu , Yu Xi

Conditional stochastic optimization has found applications in a wide range of machine learning tasks, such as invariant learning, AUPRC maximization, and meta-learning. As the demand for training models with large-scale distributed data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Xidong Wu , Jianhui Sun , Zhengmian Hu , Junyi Li , Aidong Zhang , Heng Huang

Fairness has emerged as a critical problem in federated learning (FL). In this work, we identify a cause of unfairness in FL -- conflicting gradients with large differences in the magnitudes. To address this issue, we propose the federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Zheng Wang , Xiaoliang Fan , Jianzhong Qi , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang , Rongshan Yu

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of resource-limited nodes to collaboratively train a model without data sharing. The non-independent-and-identically-distributed (non-i.i.d.) data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Hongda Wu , Ping Wang

In Low Earth Orbit (LEO) mega constellations, there are relevant use cases, such as inference based on satellite imaging, in which a large number of satellites collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Nasrin Razmi , Bho Matthiesen , Armin Dekorsy , Petar Popovski

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-protected machine learning paradigm that allows model to be trained directly at the edge without uploading data. One of the biggest challenges faced by FL in practical applications is the heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zirui Zhu , Ziyi Ye

We consider the penalized distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problem with a closed, convex uncertainty set, a setting that encompasses learning using $f$-DRO and spectral/$L$-risk minimization. We present Drago, a stochastic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-12 Ronak Mehta , Jelena Diakonikolas , Zaid Harchaoui

Federated learning (FL) has become de facto framework for collaborative learning among edge devices with privacy concern. The core of the FL strategy is the use of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in a distributed manner. Large scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Kerem Ozfatura , Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm designed to address the challenge of data silos, attracting considerable attention. However, FL encounters persistent issues related to fairness and data privacy. To tackle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinpeng Ling , Jie Fu , Kuncan Wang , Huifa Li , Tong Cheng , Zhili Chen

Current data compression methods, such as sparsification in Federated Averaging (FedAvg), effectively enhance the communication efficiency of Federated Learning (FL). However, these methods encounter challenges such as the straggler problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Zichen Tang , Junlin Huang , Rudan Yan , Yuxin Wang , Zhenheng Tang , Shaohuai Shi , Amelie Chi Zhou , Xiaowen Chu

Federated learning is a distributed learning framework where clients collaboratively train a global model without sharing their raw data. FedAvg is a popular algorithm for federated learning, but it often suffers from slow convergence due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Shokichi Takakura , Seng Pei Liew , Satoshi Hasegawa

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed Machine Learning (ML) setup, where a shared model is collaboratively trained by various clients using their local datasets while keeping the data private. Considering resource-constrained devices, FL…

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