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Data heterogeneity among Federated Learning (FL) users poses a significant challenge, resulting in reduced global model performance. The community has designed various techniques to tackle this issue, among which Knowledge Distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Momin Ahmad Khan , Yasra Chandio , Fatima Muhammad Anwar

This paper addresses the challenge of mitigating data heterogeneity among clients within a Federated Learning (FL) framework. The model-drift issue, arising from the noniid nature of client data, often results in suboptimal personalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Kawa Atapour , S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi , Jamshid Abouei , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

In real-world applications, Federated Learning (FL) meets two challenges: (1) scalability, especially when applied to massive IoT networks; and (2) how to be robust against an environment with heterogeneous data. Realizing the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Minh-Duong Nguyen , Quoc-Viet Pham , Dinh Thai Hoang , Long Tran-Thanh , Diep N. Nguyen , Won-Joo Hwang

Knowledge distillation has recently become popular as a method of model aggregation on the server for federated learning. It is generally assumed that there are abundant public unlabeled data on the server. However, in reality, there exists…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Shangchao Su , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Knowledge distillation is normally used to compress a big network, or teacher, onto a smaller one, the student, by training it to match its outputs. Recently, some works have shown that robustness against adversarial attacks can also be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Javier Maroto , Guillermo Ortiz-Jiménez , Pascal Frossard

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm which coordinates multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model via a central server. Sequential Federated Learning (SFL) is a newly-emerging FL training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Haotian Xu , Jinrui Zhou , Xichong Zhang , Mingjun Xiao , He Sun , Yin Xu

This paper introduces FedKDX, a federated learning framework that addresses limitations in healthcare AI through Negative Knowledge Distillation (NKD). Unlike existing approaches that focus solely on positive knowledge transfer, FedKDX…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Quang-Tu Pham , Hoang-Dieu Vu , Dinh-Dat Pham , Hieu H. Pham

While existing federated learning approaches primarily focus on aggregating local models to construct a global model, in realistic settings, some clients may be reluctant to share their private models due to the inclusion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Lingzhi Gao , Zhenyuan Zhang , Chao Wu

Federated learning (FL) offers a privacy-preserving framework for distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across diverse clients without centralizing sensitive data. However, statistical heterogeneity,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-08 Hengrui Hu , Anai N. Kothari , Anjishnu Banerjee

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel framework of decentralized machine learning. Due to the decentralized feature of FL, it is vulnerable to adversarial attacks in the training procedure, e.g. , backdoor attacks. A backdoor attack aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Yifan Wang , Wei Fan , Keke Yang , Naji Alhusaini , Jing Li

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative training paradigm, particularly invaluable in privacy-sensitive domains like healthcare. However, client heterogeneity in data, computing power, and tasks poses a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Huidong Tang , Chen Li , Huachong Yu , Sayaka Kamei , Yasuhiko Morimoto

Federated learning (FL), which utilizes communication between the server (core) and local devices (edges) to indirectly learn from more data, is an emerging field in deep learning research. Recently, Knowledge Distillation-based FL methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Sangho Lee , Kiyoon Yoo , Nojun Kwak

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized collaborative machine learning (ML) technique. It provides a solution to the issues of isolated data islands and data privacy leakage in industrial ML practices. One major challenge in FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yushan Zhao , Jinyuan He , Donglai Chen , Weijie Luo , Chong Xie , Ri Zhang , Yonghong Chen , Yan Xu

Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning (Hetero-FL) has attracted growing attention for its ability to aggregate knowledge from heterogeneous models while keeping private data locally. To better aggregate knowledge from clients, ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yichen Li , Xiuying Wang , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Yining Qi , Jiahua Dong , Ruixuan Li

As an emerging paradigm of federated learning, asynchronous federated learning offers significant speed advantages over traditional synchronous federated learning. Unlike synchronous federated learning, which requires waiting for all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Chaoyi Lu , Yiding Sun , Pengbo Li , Zhichuan Yang

In practical scenarios, federated learning frequently necessitates training personalized models for each client using heterogeneous data. This paper proposes a backbone self-distillation approach to facilitate personalized federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Pengju Wang , Bochao Liu , Dan Zeng , Chenggang Yan , Shiming Ge

As a special type of multimedia data, Lithography Hotspot Detection (LHD) training often requires stronger privacy protection than conventional multimedia data, and federated learning provides a promising potential solution to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yuqi Li , Xingyou Lin , Yanli Li , Kai Zhang , Chuanguang Yang , Zhongliang Guo , Jianping Gou , Tingwen Huang , Yingli Tian

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple devices while preserving data privacy. However, it remains susceptible to backdoor attacks, where malicious participants can compromise the global model. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Ebtisaam Alharbi , Leandro Soriano Marcolino , Qiang Ni , Antonios Gouglidis

Knowledge distillation (KD) has become an important technique for model compression and knowledge transfer. In this work, we first perform a comprehensive analysis of the knowledge transferred by different KD methods. We demonstrate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Fei Ding , Yin Yang , Hongxin Hu , Venkat Krovi , Feng Luo

Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training without direct data sharing. Model-heterogeneous FL (MHFL) extends this paradigm by allowing clients to train personalized models with heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziqiao Weng , Weidong Cai , Bo Zhou