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Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that allows multiple clients to jointly train a shared model while maintaining data privacy. Despite its great potential for domains with strict data privacy requirements, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Christoph Düsing , Philipp Cimiano

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning (ML) paradigm used to train models across multiple nodes (i.e., clients) holding local data sets, without explicitly exchanging the data. It has attracted a growing interest in recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Dan Ben Ami , Kobi Cohen , Qing Zhao

Multimodal AI has demonstrated superior performance over unimodal approaches by leveraging diverse data sources for more comprehensive analysis. However, applying this effectiveness in healthcare is challenging due to the limited…

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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

The issue of group fairness in machine learning models, where certain sub-populations or groups are favored over others, has been recognized for some time. While many mitigation strategies have been proposed in centralized learning, many of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ganghua Wang , Ali Payani , Myungjin Lee , Ramana Kompella

As methods to create discrimination-aware models develop, they focus on centralized ML, leaving federated learning (FL) unexplored. FL is a rising approach for collaborative ML, in which an aggregator orchestrates multiple parties to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Annie Abay , Yi Zhou , Nathalie Baracaldo , Shashank Rajamoni , Ebube Chuba , Heiko Ludwig

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning across multiple clients. In most FL work, all clients train a single learning task. However, the recent proliferation of FL applications may increasingly require multiple FL tasks to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Marie Siew , Haoran Zhang , Jong-Ik Park , Yuezhou Liu , Yichen Ruan , Lili Su , Stratis Ioannidis , Edmund Yeh , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated learning (FL) systems face performance challenges in dealing with heterogeneous devices and non-identically distributed data across clients. We propose a dynamic global model aggregation method within Asynchronous Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jikun Gao , Ioannis Mavromatis , Peizheng Li , Pietro Carnelli , Aftab Khan

We present a novel approach in the domain of federated learning (FL), particularly focusing on addressing the challenges posed by modality heterogeneity, variability in modality availability across clients, and the prevalent issue of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Minh Tran , Roochi Shah , Zejun Gong

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising collaborative and secure paradigm for training a model from decentralized data without compromising privacy. Group fairness and client fairness are two dimensions of fairness that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Cong Su , Guoxian Yu , Jun Wang , Hui Li , Qingzhong Li , Han Yu

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized medical institutions while preserving data privacy. However, medical FL benchmarks remain scarce, with existing efforts focusing mainly on unimodal or bimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Aavash Chhetri , Bibek Niroula , Pratik Shrestha , Yash Raj Shrestha , Lesley A Anderson , Prashnna K Gyawali , Loris Bazzani , Binod Bhattarai

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning framework in communication network systems. However, the systems' Non-Independent and Identically Distributed (Non-IID) data negatively affect the convergence efficiency of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Ping Luo , Xiaoge Deng , Ziqing Wen , Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li

Federated learning (FL) is a promising approach for training decentralized data located on local client devices while improving efficiency and privacy. However, the distribution and quantity of the training data on the clients' side may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Lixu Wang , Shichao Xu , Xiao Wang , Qi Zhu

Clustered Federated Multitask Learning (CFL) was introduced as an efficient scheme to obtain reliable specialized models when data is imbalanced and distributed in a non-i.i.d. (non-independent and identically distributed) fashion amongst…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Aiman Erbad

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique that enables a large amount of edge computing devices to collaboratively train a global learning model. Due to privacy concerns, the raw data on devices could not be available for centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Miao Yang , Akitanoshou Wong , Hongbin Zhu , Haifeng Wang , Hua Qian

The imbalance problem is widespread in the field of machine learning, which also exists in multimodal learning areas caused by the intrinsic discrepancy between modalities of samples. Recent works have attempted to solve the modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Wenke Xia , Xu Zhao , Xincheng Pang , Changqing Zhang , Di Hu

Federated Learning (FL) is a method for training machine learning models using distributed data sources. It ensures privacy by allowing clients to collaboratively learn a shared global model while storing their data locally. However, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Manh Duong Nguyen , Trung Thanh Nguyen , Huy Hieu Pham , Trong Nghia Hoang , Phi Le Nguyen , Thanh Trung Huynh

Achieving fairness across diverse clients in Federated Learning (FL) remains a significant challenge due to the heterogeneity of the data and the inaccessibility of sensitive attributes from clients' private datasets. This study addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Disha Makhija , Xing Han , Joydeep Ghosh , Yejin Kim

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple nodes to collaboratively train a model without sharing raw data. However, FL systems are usually deployed in heterogeneous scenarios, where nodes differ in both data distributions and participation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hongliang Zhang , Jiguo Yu , Guijuan Wang , Wenshuo Ma , Tianqing He , Baobao Chai , Chunqiang Hu

Multimodal Federated Learning (MFL) with mixed modalities enables unimodal and multimodal clients to collaboratively train models while ensuring clients' privacy. As a representative sample of local data, prototypes offer an approach with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Keke Gai , Mohan Wang , Jing Yu , Dongjue Wang , Qi Wu