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Traditional machine learning relies on a centralized data pipeline, i.e., data are provided to a central server for model training. In many applications, however, data are inherently fragmented. Such a decentralized nature of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Ye Yuan , Jun Liu , Dou Jin , Zuogong Yue , Ruijuan Chen , Maolin Wang , Chuan Sun , Lei Xu , Feng Hua , Xin He , Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang , Hai-Tao Zhang , Shaochun Sui , Han Ding

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. One central server is not enough, due to…

Federated learning (FL) supports distributed training of a global machine learning model across multiple devices with the help of a central server. However, data heterogeneity across different devices leads to the client model drift issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Xu Zhou , Xinyu Lei , Cong Yang , Yichun Shi , Xiao Zhang , Jingwen Shi

In recent years, data are typically distributed in multiple organizations while the data security is becoming increasingly important. Federated Learning (FL), which enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a model without…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Ji Liu , Xuehai Zhou , Lei Mo , Shilei Ji , Yuan Liao , Zheng Li , Qin Gu , Dejing Dou

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm in which distributed local nodes collaboratively train a central model without sharing individually held private data. Existing FL methods either iteratively share local model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Xuan Gong , Shanglin Li , Yuxiang Bao , Barry Yao , Yawen Huang , Ziyan Wu , Baochang Zhang , Yefeng Zheng , David Doermann

Federated Learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for collaborative machine learning, while preserving user data privacy. Despite its potential, standard FL lacks support for diverse heterogeneous device prototypes, which vary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Mahdi Morafah , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Hojin Chang , Chen Chen , Bill Lin

Federated learning (FL), which is a decentralized machine learning (ML) approach, often incorporates differential privacy (DP) to provide rigorous data privacy guarantees. Previous works attempted to address high structured data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Saber Malekmohammadi , Afaf Taik , Golnoosh Farnadi

Autonomous systems are becoming inherently ubiquitous with the advancements of computing and communication solutions enabling low-latency offloading and real-time collaboration of distributed devices. Decentralized technologies with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Yu Xianjia , Jorge Peña Queralta , Jukka Heikkonen , Tomi Westerlund

Personalization in federated learning (FL) functions as a coordinator for clients with high variance in data or behavior. Ensuring the convergence of these clients' models relies on how closely users collaborate with those with similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Eunjeong Jeong , Marios Kountouris

Federated learning (FL), as a type of collaborative machine learning framework, is capable of preserving private data from mobile terminals (MTs) while training the data into useful models. Nevertheless, from a viewpoint of information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Hang Su , Bo Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server but faces challenges in efficiency, stability, and trustworthiness due to communication and computational limitations among distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shan Sha , Shenglong Zhou , Lingchen Kong , Geoffrey Ye Li

Federated Learning (FL) is designed to protect the data privacy of each client during the training process by transmitting only models instead of the original data. However, the trained model may memorize certain information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Chen Wu , Sencun Zhu , Prasenjit Mitra

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent alternative to the traditional centralized learning approach. Generally speaking, FL is a decentralized approach that allows for collaborative training of Machine Learning (ML) models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi , S. Kawa Atapour , Jamshid Abouei , Arash Mohammadi

We present PDFed, a decentralized, aggregator-free, and asynchronous federated learning protocol for training image diffusion models using a public blockchain. In general, diffusion models are prone to memorization of training data, raising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Kar Balan , Andrew Gilbert , John Collomosse

In recent years, the landscape of federated learning has witnessed significant advancements, particularly in decentralized methodologies. This research paper presents a comprehensive comparison of Centralized Hierarchical Federated Learning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Sumit Chongder

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) enable computational integrity and privacy by allowing one party to prove the truth of a statement without revealing underlying data. Compared with alternatives such as homomorphic encryption and secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ryan Lavin , Xuekai Liu , Hardhik Mohanty , Logan Norman , Giovanni Zaarour , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is emerging as a key enabler for intelligent, secure, and privacy-preserving model training in next-generation 6G networks. By leveraging the computational advantages of quantum devices, QFL offers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Dinh C. Nguyen , Md Bokhtiar Al Zami , Ratun Rahman , Shaba Shaon , Tuy Tan Nguyen , Fatemeh Afghah

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed learning paradigm without sharing participating clients' private data. However, existing works show that FL is vulnerable to both Byzantine (security) attacks and data reconstruction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chenfei Nie , Qiang Li , Yuxin Yang , Yuede Ji , Binghui Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning scheme, where each participant data remains on the participating devices and only the local model generated utilizing the local computational power is transmitted…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Ervin Moore , Ahmed Imteaj , Md Zarif Hossain , Shabnam Rezapour , M. Hadi Amini

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging promising paradigm of privacy-preserving machine learning (ML). An important type of FL is cross-silo FL, which enables a small scale of organizations to cooperatively train a shared model by keeping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jialiang Han , Yudong Han , Gang Huang , Yun Ma