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Federated learning (FL) has enabled training machine learning models exploiting the data of multiple agents without compromising privacy. However, FL is known to be vulnerable to data heterogeneity, partial device participation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Marina Costantini , Giovanni Neglia , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

Learning from distributed data without accessing them is undoubtedly a challenging and non-trivial task. Nevertheless, the necessity for distributed training of a statistical model has been increasing, due to the privacy concerns of local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-02 Seok-Ju Hahn

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of autonomous driving (AD) models across distributed vehicles while preserving data privacy. However, FL encounters critical challenges such as poor generalization and slow convergence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wei-Bin Kou , Guangxu Zhu , Bingyang Cheng , Chen Zhang , Yik-Chung Wu , Jianping Wang

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) is a widely-used approach to learn models that are robust against distribution shift. Compared with the standard optimization setting, the objective function in DRO is more difficult to optimize,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jikai Jin , Bohang Zhang , Haiyang Wang , Liwei Wang

In this paper, a Federated Learning (FL) simulation platform is introduced. The target scenario is Acoustic Model training based on this platform. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to apply FL techniques to Speech Recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Kenichi Kumatani , Robert Gmyr , Yashesh Gaur , Sefik Emre Eskimez

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) is a powerful framework for training robust models against data distribution shifts. This paper focuses on constrained DRO, which has an explicit characterization of the robustness level. Existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-02 Qi Zhang , Yi Zhou , Ashley Prater-Bennette , Lixin Shen , Shaofeng Zou

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (\textsf{WDRO}) is a popular model to enhance the robustness of machine learning with ambiguous data. However, the complexity of \textsf{WDRO} can be prohibitive in practice since solving its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Ruomin Huang , Jiawei Huang , Wenjie Liu , Hu Ding

Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention in distributed machine learning by enabling collaborative model training across decentralized system while preserving data privacy. Although extensive research has addressed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ahmad Dabaja , Rachid El-Azouzi

Federated Learning (FL) in Deep Learning (DL)-automated medical image segmentation helps preserving privacy by enabling collaborative model training without sharing patient data. However, FL faces challenges with data heterogeneity among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Philip Schutte , Valentina Corbetta , Regina Beets-Tan , Wilson Silva

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed training paradigm that aims to learn a common global model without exchanging or transferring the data that are stored locally at different clients. The Federated Averaging (FedAvg)-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xiaolu Wang , Zijian Li , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel centralized Asynchronous Federated Learning (FL) framework, FAVANO, for training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in resource-constrained environments. Despite its popularity, ``classical'' federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Louis Leconte , Van Minh Nguyen , Eric Moulines

As a novel distributed learning paradigm, federated learning (FL) faces serious challenges in dealing with massive clients with heterogeneous data distribution and computation and communication resources. Various client-variance-reduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Shuai Wang , Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Wang , Tsung-Hui Chang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Defeng Sun

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collectively train a high-performance global model without sharing their private data. However, the key challenge in federated learning is that the clients have significant statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Liang Gao , Huazhu Fu , Li Li , Yingwen Chen , Ming Xu , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Federated Learning (FL) has been an area of active research in recent years. There have been numerous studies in FL to make it more successful in the presence of data heterogeneity. However, despite the existence of many publications, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Mahdi Morafah , Weijia Wang , Bill Lin

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model while keeping local data decentralized. Data heterogeneity (non-IID) across clients has imposed significant challenges to FL, which makes local models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yuting He , Yiqiang Chen , XiaoDong Yang , Hanchao Yu , Yi-Hua Huang , Yang Gu

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed machine learning approach that enables collaborative training of a global model using multiple edge devices. The data distributed among the edge devices is highly heterogeneous. Thus, FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ji Liu , Beichen Ma , Qiaolin Yu , Ruoming Jin , Jingbo Zhou , Yang Zhou , Huaiyu Dai , Haixun Wang , Dejing Dou , Patrick Valduriez

Federated Averaging (FedAvg, also known as Local-SGD) (McMahan et al., 2017) is a classical federated learning algorithm in which clients run multiple local SGD steps before communicating their update to an orchestrating server. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Haoyu Zhao , Zhize Li , Peter Richtárik

We consider the problem of distributionally robust multimodal machine learning. Existing approaches often rely on merging modalities on the feature level (early fusion) or heuristic uncertainty modeling, which downplays modality-aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Peilin Yang , Yu Ma

Federated Learning (FL) marks a transformative approach to distributed model training by combining locally optimized models from various clients into a unified global model. While FL preserves data privacy by eliminating centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Pranab Sahoo , Ashutosh Tripathi , Sriparna Saha , Samrat Mondal

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a deep learning model. One major challenge of FL is when data distribution is heterogeneous, i.e., differs from one client to another. Existing personalized FL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Haolin Yuan , Bo Hui , Yuchen Yang , Philippe Burlina , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yinzhi Cao