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Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that enables model training in communication efficient and privacy-preserving manner. The standard optimization method in FL is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Zeyi Tao , Jindi Wu , Qun Li

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique in which multiple clients cooperate to train a shared model without exchanging their raw data. However, heterogeneity of data distribution among clients usually leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yu Qiao , Seong-Bae Park , Sun Moo Kang , Choong Seon Hong

As artificial intelligence systems increasingly operate in Real-world environments, the integration of multi-modal data sources such as vision, language, and audio presents both unprecedented opportunities and critical challenges for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sree Bhargavi Balija

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a shared global model without exposing clients' private data. In practical FL systems, clients (e.g., edge servers, smartphones, and wearables) typically have disparate system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Leming Shen , Qiang Yang , Kaiyan Cui , Yuanqing Zheng , Xiao-Yong Wei , Jianwei Liu , Jinsong Han

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (MERC) enhances emotional understanding through the fusion of multimodal signals. However, unpredictable modality absence in real-world scenarios significantly degrades the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xihang Qiu , Jiarong Cheng , Yuhao Fang , Wanpeng Zhang , Yao Lu , Ye Zhang , Chun Li

Utilizing the sensor characteristics of the audio, visible camera, and thermal camera, the robustness of person recognition can be enhanced. Existing multimodal person recognition frameworks are primarily formulated assuming that multimodal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Vijay John , Yasutomo Kawanishi

Large-scale pre-training has brought unimodal fields such as computer vision and natural language processing to a new era. Following this trend, the size of multi-modal learning models constantly increases, leading to an urgent need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yaowei Li , Ruijie Quan , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Federated learning is a promising paradigm that allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing the local data. However, the presence of heterogeneous devices in federated learning, such as mobile phones and IoT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kai Zhang , Yutong Dai , Hongyi Wang , Eric Xing , Xun Chen , Lichao Sun

Due to the scarcity of industrial data, individual equipment users, particularly start-ups, struggle to independently train a comprehensive fault diagnosis model; federated learning enables collaborative training while ensuring data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zexiao Wang , Yankai Wang , Xiaoqiang Liao , Xinguo Ming , Weiming Shen

Multimodal clinical prediction faces three challenges: multiple foundation models (FMs) with complementary strengths per modality, pervasive missing modalities at training and test time, and sample-specific variation in modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Seungik Cho , Anqi Li , Wei Qiu

Many healthcare sensing applications utilize multimodal time-series data from sensors embedded in mobile and wearable devices. Federated Learning (FL), with its privacy-preserving advantages, is particularly well-suited for health…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Adiba Orzikulova , Jaehyun Kwak , Jaemin Shin , Sung-Ju Lee

Federated Learning (FL) is a framework which enables distributed model training using a large corpus of decentralized training data. Existing methods aggregate models disregarding their internal representations, which are crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Umberto Michieli , Mete Ozay

Addressing missing modalities presents a critical challenge in multimodal learning. Current approaches focus on developing models that can handle modality-incomplete inputs during inference, assuming that the full set of modalities are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yunpeng Zhao , Cheng Chen , Qing You Pang , Quanzheng Li , Carol Tang , Beng-Ti Ang , Yueming Jin

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) are emerging as strong foundation models that can do both generation and understanding tasks in a single architecture. However, they are typically trained in centralized settings where all training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhaolong Su , Leheng Zhao , Xiaoying Wu , Ziyue Xu , Jindong Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaboratively training deep learning models on decentralized data. However, there are three types of heterogeneities in FL setting bringing about distinctive challenges to the canonical federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Tao Shen , Jie Zhang , Xinkang Jia , Fengda Zhang , Gang Huang , Pan Zhou , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu , Chao Wu

Federated multi-task learning (FMTL) seeks to collaboratively train customized models for users with different tasks while preserving data privacy. Most existing approaches assume model congruity (i.e., the use of fully or partially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mehdi Setayesh , Mahdi Beitollahi , Yasser H. Khalil , Hongliang Li

Multimodal Federated Learning frequently encounters challenges of client modality heterogeneity, leading to undesired performances for secondary modality in multimodal learning. It is particularly prevalent in audiovisual learning, with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 Tiantian Feng , Tuo Zhang , Salman Avestimehr , Shrikanth S. Narayanan

This study focuses on the feature extraction problem in multi-modal data regression. To address three core challenges in real-world scenarios: limited and non-IID data, effective extraction and fusion of multi-modal information, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haozhe Wu

Federated Learning is a distributed learning paradigm with two key challenges that differentiate it from traditional distributed optimization: (1) significant variability in terms of the systems characteristics on each device in the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Tian Li , Anit Kumar Sahu , Manzil Zaheer , Maziar Sanjabi , Ameet Talwalkar , Virginia Smith

Federated learning (FL) has been widely adopted across various applications, such as healthcare, finance, and smart cities. However, as experimental scenarios become more complex, existing FL frameworks and benchmarks have struggled to keep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Chuyi Chen , Zhe Zhang , Yanchao Zhao