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Federated learning allows clients to collaboratively learn statistical models while keeping their data local. Federated learning was originally used to train a unique global model to be served to all clients, but this approach might be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Othmane Marfoq , Giovanni Neglia , Laetitia Kameni , Richard Vidal

This article introduces a generalized framework for Decentralized Learning formulated as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem, in which both distributed agents and a central coordinator contribute independent, potentially conflicting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Roberto Morales , Umberto Biccari

Federated learning is a privacy-focused approach towards machine learning where models are trained on client devices with locally available data and aggregated at a central server. However, the dependence on a single central server is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shamik Bhattacharyya , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

Decentralized learning (DL) has gained prominence for its potential benefits in terms of scalability, privacy, and fault tolerance. It consists of many nodes that coordinate without a central server and exchange millions of parameters in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Akash Dhasade , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Milos Vujasinovic

Personalized learning is a proposed approach to address the problem of data heterogeneity in collaborative machine learning. In a decentralized setting, the two main challenges of personalization are client clustering and data privacy. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Mohammad Mahdi Maheri , Sandra Siby , Sina Abdollahi , Anastasia Borovykh , Hamed Haddadi

Cooperative decentralized learning relies on direct information exchange between communicating agents, each with access to locally available datasets. The goal is to agree on model parameters that are optimal over all data. However, sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jasmine Bayrooti , Zhan Gao , Amanda Prorok

Federated learning is a paradigm of increasing relevance in real world applications, aimed at building a global model across a network of heterogeneous users without requiring the sharing of private data. We focus on model learning over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aritz Pérez , Carlos Echegoyen , Guzmán Santafé

To address data heterogeneity, the key strategy of Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) is to decouple general knowledge (shared among clients) and client-specific knowledge, as the latter can have a negative impact on collaboration if not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xinghao Wu , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu , Haolin Wang , Shaojie Tang , Guogang Zhu , Hao Su

We present PeFLL, a new personalized federated learning algorithm that improves over the state-of-the-art in three aspects: 1) it produces more accurate models, especially in the low-data regime, and not only for clients present during its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Jonathan Scott , Hossein Zakerinia , Christoph H. Lampert

Federated learning enables machine learning models to learn from private decentralized data without compromising privacy. The standard formulation of federated learning produces one shared model for all clients. Statistical heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Viraj Kulkarni , Milind Kulkarni , Aniruddha Pant

Unsupervised representation learning has achieved outstanding performances using centralized data available on the Internet. However, the increasing awareness of privacy protection limits sharing of decentralized unlabeled image data that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Weiming Zhuang , Xin Gan , Yonggang Wen , Shuai Zhang , Shuai Yi

In distributed optimization, the practical problem-solving performance is essentially sensitive to algorithm selection, parameter setting, problem type and data pattern. Thus, it is often laborious to acquire a highly efficient method for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Daokuan Zhu , Tianqi Xu , Jie Lu

Decentralized learning provides a scalable alternative to parameter-server-based training, yet its performance is often hindered by limited peer-to-peer communication. In this paper, we study how communication should be scheduled over time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tongtian Zhu , Tianyu Zhang , Mingze Wang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Can Wang

Federated learning enables joint training of machine learning models from distributed clients without sharing their local data. One key challenge in federated learning is to handle non-identically distributed data across the clients, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Tiejin Chen , Yuanpu Cao , Yujia Wang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jinghui Chen

Decentralized sparsity learning has attracted a significant amount of attention recently due to its rapidly growing applications. To obtain the robust and sparse estimators, a natural idea is to adopt the non-smooth median loss combined…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-02 Weidong Liu , Xiaojun Mao , Xin Zhang

Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine learning models without a central coordinator. In many scenarios communication between devices is energy demanding and time consuming and forms the bottleneck of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Dmitry Kovalev , Anastasia Koloskova , Martin Jaggi , Peter Richtarik , Sebastian U. Stich

Personalized federated learning (PFL) aims to produce the greatest personalized model for each client to face an insurmountable problem--data heterogeneity in real FL systems. However, almost all existing works have to face large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yifan Shi , Yingqi Liu , Yan Sun , Zihao Lin , Li Shen , Xueqian Wang , Dacheng Tao

Recent work has shown that decentralized algorithms can deliver superior performance over centralized ones in the context of machine learning. The two approaches, with the main difference residing in their distinct communication patterns,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Qinyi Luo , Jinkun Lin , Youwei Zhuo , Xuehai Qian

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) captures FL settings where both (i) model updates and (ii) model aggregations are exclusively carried out by the clients without a central server. Existing DFL works have mostly focused on settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shahryar Zehtabi , Dong-Jun Han , Rohit Parasnis , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

Decentralized learning (DL) leverages edge devices for collaborative model training while avoiding coordination by a central server. Due to privacy concerns, DL has become an attractive alternative to centralized learning schemes since…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Martijn de Vos , Akash Dhasade , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Erick Lavoie , Johan Pouwelse , Rishi Sharma