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Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a solution for collaborative medical image classification while preserving data privacy. However, label noise, which arises from inter-institutional data variability, can cause training instability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Mengwen Ye , Yingzi Huangfu , Shujian Gao , Wei Ren , Weifan Liu , Zekuan Yu

We propose FEDENHANCE, an unsupervised federated learning (FL) approach for speech enhancement and separation with non-IID distributed data across multiple clients. We simulate a real-world scenario where each client only has access to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Efthymios Tzinis , Jonah Casebeer , Zhepei Wang , Paris Smaragdis

Robustness to label noise within data is a significant challenge in federated learning (FL). From the data-centric perspective, the data quality of distributed datasets can not be guaranteed since annotations of different clients contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xuefeng Jiang , Jia Li , Nannan Wu , Zhiyuan Wu , Xujing Li , Sheng Sun , Gang Xu , Yuwei Wang , Qi Li , Min Liu

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn in a distributed way, allowing for privacy protection. However, the real-world non-IID data will lead to client drift which degrades the performance of FL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yunlu Yan , Chun-Mei Feng , Mang Ye , Wangmeng Zuo , Ping Li , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Lei Zhu , C. L. Philip Chen

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to train models collaboratively without sharing local data, which has achieved promising results in different areas, including the Internet of Things (IoT). However, end IoT devices do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jiaqi Wang , Shenglai Zeng , Zewei Long , Yaqing Wang , Houping Xiao , Fenglong Ma

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) become frail when the datasets contain noisy (incorrect) class labels. Robust techniques in the presence of noisy labels can be categorized into two folds: developing noise-robust functions or using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Taehyeon Kim , Jongwoo Ko , Sangwook Cho , Jinhwan Choi , Se-Young Yun

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative training of machine learning models over decentralized devices without exposing their local data. One of the major challenges in FL is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Md Sirajul Islam , Simin Javaherian , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng

Most existing federated learning methods assume that clients have fully labeled data to train on, while in reality, it is hard for the clients to get task-specific labels due to users' privacy concerns, high labeling costs, or lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Nan Yang , Dong Yuan , Charles Z Liu , Yongkun Deng , Wei Bao

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed learning paradigm for training deep neural networks (DNNs) at the wireless edge, but its performance can be severely hindered by unreliable wireless transmission and inherent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yanmeng Wang , Wenkai Ji , Jian Zhou , Fu Xiao , Tsung-Hui Chang

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm that aims to support loosely connected clients in learning a global model collaboratively with the help of a centralized server. The most popular FL algorithm is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Yaoxin Zhuo , Baoxin Li

Federated learning (FL) is a new paradigm for distributed machine learning that allows a global model to be trained across multiple clients without compromising their privacy. Although FL has demonstrated remarkable success in various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Haolin Wang , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu , Shaojie Tang , Jiaxing Shen

Many existing FL methods assume clients with fully-labeled data, while in realistic settings, clients have limited labels due to the expensive and laborious process of labeling. Limited labeled local data of the clients often leads to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yae Jee Cho , Gauri Joshi , Dimitrios Dimitriadis

Despite the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification tasks, the human-level performance relies on massive training data with high-quality manual annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan Kankanhalli

Training large-scale Neural Networks requires substantial computational power and energy. Federated Learning enables distributed model training across geospatially distributed data centers, leveraging renewable energy sources to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Patrick Wilhelm , Inese Yilmaz , Odej Kao

Federated learning systems are increasingly threatened by data poisoning attacks, where malicious clients compromise global models by contributing tampered updates. Existing defenses often rely on impractical assumptions, such as access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ehsan Hallaji , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif

Federated learning (FL) presents an effective solution for collaborative model training while maintaining data privacy across decentralized client datasets. However, data quality issues such as noisy labels, missing classes, and imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Alpaslan Gokcen , Ali Boyaci

In the evolving landscape of federated learning (FL), addressing label noise presents unique challenges due to the decentralized and diverse nature of data collection across clients. Traditional centralized learning approaches to mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Taehyeon Kim , Donggyu Kim , Se-Young Yun

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) enables distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) across cloud-edge environments by allowing collaborative model training without centralizing data. In cross-device deployments, FL systems face strict communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Daniel M. Jimenez-Gutierrez , Giovanni Giunta , Mehrdad Hassanzadeh , Aris Anagnostopoulos , Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Andrea Vitaletti

Label noise is ubiquitous in real-world scenarios, posing a practical challenge to supervised models due to its effect in hurting the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Existing methods primarily employ the sample selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Mengmeng Sheng , Zeren Sun , Tao Chen , Shuchao Pang , Yucheng Wang , Yazhou Yao