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Federated clustering, an essential extension of centralized clustering for federated scenarios, enables multiple data-holding clients to collaboratively group data while keeping their data locally. In centralized scenarios, clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jing Liu , Jie Yan , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients with distributed data sources to collaboratively train a shared model without compromising data privacy. However, existing FL paradigms face challenges due to heterogeneity in client data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Brianna Mueller , W. Nick Street , Stephen Baek , Qihang Lin , Jingyi Yang , Yankun Huang

Federated learning (FL) is a rapidly growing privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning paradigm. In practical FL applications, local data from each data silo reflect local usage patterns. Therefore, there exists heterogeneity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shenglai Zeng , Zonghang Li , Hongfang Yu , Yihong He , Zenglin Xu , Dusit Niyato , Han Yu

We propose a novel contrastive learning framework to effectively address the challenges of data heterogeneity in federated learning. We first analyze the inconsistency of gradient updates across clients during local training and establish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Seonguk Seo , Jinkyu Kim , Geeho Kim , Bohyung Han

Federated learning (FL) has sparked extensive interest in exploiting the private data on clients' local devices. However, the parameter server setting of FL not only has high bandwidth requirements, but also poses data privacy issues and a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Qian Chen , Zilong Wang , Yilin Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Dan Xiao , Xiaodong Lin

Recent advances of generative learning models are accompanied by the growing interest in federated learning (FL) based on generative adversarial network (GAN) models. In the context of FL, GAN can capture the underlying client data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Achintha Wijesinghe , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Artificial Intelligence for scientific applications increasingly requires training large models on data that cannot be centralized due to privacy constraints, data sovereignty, or the sheer volume of data generated. Federated learning (FL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yijiang Li , Zilinghan Li , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster , Todd Munson , Ravi Madduri , Kibaek Kim

This study investigates clustered federated learning (FL), one of the formulations of FL with non-i.i.d. data, where the devices are partitioned into clusters and each cluster optimally fits its data with a localized model. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xue Yu , Ziyi Liu , Wu Wang , Yifan Sun

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

With an increasing number of smart devices like internet of things (IoT) devices deployed in the field, offloadingtraining of neural networks (NNs) to a central server becomes more and more infeasible. Recent efforts toimprove users'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Kilian Pfeiffer , Martin Rapp , Ramin Khalili , Jörg Henkel

Federated learning (FL), which has gained increasing attention recently, enables distributed devices to train a common machine learning (ML) model for intelligent inference cooperatively without data sharing. However, problems in practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yujie Zhou , Zhidu Li , Tong Tang , Ruyan Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning (ML) paradigm in which models are trained on private data across several devices called clients and combined at a single node called an aggregator rather than aggregating the data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sarang S , Druva Dhakshinamoorthy , Aditya Shiva Sharma , Yuvraj Singh Bhadauria , Siddharth Chaitra Vivek , Arihant Bansal , Arnab K. Paul

Federated Learning (FL) allows training machine learning models in privacy-constrained scenarios by enabling the cooperation of edge devices without requiring local data sharing. This approach raises several challenges due to the different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Riccardo Zaccone , Andrea Rizzardi , Debora Caldarola , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

This paper proposes LCFL, a novel clustering metric for evaluating clients' data distributions in federated learning. LCFL aligns with federated learning requirements, accurately assessing client-to-client variations in data distribution.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Endong Gu , Yongxin Chen , Hao Wen , Xingju Cai , Deren Han

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed training with private client data, but its convergence is hindered by system heterogeneity under realistic communication scenarios. Most FL schemes addressing system heterogeneity utilize global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Keumseo Ryum , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

Many of the machine learning (ML) tasks are focused on centralized learning (CL), which requires the transmission of local datasets from the clients to a parameter server (PS) leading to a huge communication overhead. Federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Ahmet M. Elbir , Sinem Coleri , Kumar Vijay Mishra

Personalized Federated Learning (PerFL) is a new machine learning paradigm that delivers personalized models for diverse clients under federated learning settings. Most PerFL methods require extra learning processes on a client to adapt a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Peng Yan , Guodong Long

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

In Federated Learning (FL), the distributed nature and heterogeneity of client data present both opportunities and challenges. While collaboration among clients can significantly enhance the learning process, not all collaborations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Nazarii Tupitsa , Samuel Horváth , Martin Takáč , Eduard Gorbunov

Differentially private federated learning (DP-FL) enables clients to collaboratively train machine learning models while preserving the privacy of their local data. However, most existing DP-FL approaches assume that all clients share a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ruichen Xu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Jianwei Huang