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While federated learning traditionally aims to train a single global model across decentralized local datasets, one model may not always be ideal for all participating clients. Here we propose an alternative, where each client only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Michael Zhang , Karan Sapra , Sanja Fidler , Serena Yeung , Jose M. Alvarez

Federated learning seeks to foster collaboration among distributed clients while preserving the privacy of their local data. Traditionally, federated learning methods assume a fixed setting in which client data and learning objectives…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Can Peng , Qianhui Men , Pramit Saha , Qianye Yang , Cheng Ouyang , J. Alison Noble

We present a novel federated multi-task learning method that leverages cross-client similarity to enable personalized learning for each client. To avoid transmitting the entire model to the parameter server, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ahmed Elbakary , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Mehdi Bennis

Learning from the collective knowledge of data dispersed across private sources can provide neural networks with enhanced generalization capabilities. Federated learning, a method for collaboratively training a machine learning model across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Matt Gorbett , Hossein Shirazi , Indrakshi Ray

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

Clustered federated learning (FL) has been shown to produce promising results by grouping clients into clusters. This is especially effective in scenarios where separate groups of clients have significant differences in the distributions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Saeed Vahidian , Mahdi Morafah , Weijia Wang , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Chen Chen , Mubarak Shah , Bill Lin

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) which collaboratively trains a federated model while considering local clients under privacy constraints has attracted much attention. Despite its popularity, it has been observed that existing PFL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Tianchun Wang , Wei Cheng , Dongsheng Luo , Wenchao Yu , Jingchao Ni , Liang Tong , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang

Personalized federated learning (FL) aims to train model(s) that can perform well for individual clients that are highly data and system heterogeneous. Most work in personalized FL, however, assumes using the same model architecture at all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Yae Jee Cho , Jianyu Wang , Tarun Chiruvolu , Gauri Joshi

Federated Learning (FL) deals with learning a central model (i.e. the server) in privacy-constrained scenarios, where data are stored on multiple devices (i.e. the clients). The central model has no direct access to the data, but only to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Debora Caldarola , Massimiliano Mancini , Fabio Galasso , Marco Ciccone , Emanuele Rodolà , Barbara Caputo

Federated learning is a semi-distributed algorithm, where a server communicates with multiple dispersed clients to learn a global model. The federated architecture is not robust and is sensitive to communication and computational overloads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

The rapid growth of data from edge devices has catalyzed the performance of machine learning algorithms. However, the data generated resides at client devices thus there are majorly two challenge faced by traditional machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Shivam Gupta , Tarushi , Tsering Wangzes , Shweta Jain

Federated Learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively learn a global model, but it may not perform well when clients have high data heterogeneity. In this paper, we propose a dynamic clustering algorithm for personalized federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Heting Liu , Junzhe Huang , Fang He , Guohong Cao

Federated learning is a prominent distributed learning paradigm that incorporates collaboration among diverse clients, promotes data locality, and thus ensures privacy. These clients have their own technological, cultural, and other biases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Antesh Upadhyay , Abolfazl Hashemi

This paper presents a personalized graph federated learning (PGFL) framework in which distributedly connected servers and their respective edge devices collaboratively learn device or cluster-specific models while maintaining the privacy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Francois Gauthier , Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Stefan Werner , Yih-Fang Huang , Anthony Kuh

In federated learning, clients share a global model that has been trained on decentralized local client data. Although federated learning shows significant promise as a key approach when data cannot be shared or centralized, current methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Edvin Listo Zec , Olof Mogren , John Martinsson , Leon René Sütfeld , Daniel Gillblad

Traditional Federated Learning (FL) methods typically train a single global model collaboratively without exchanging raw data. In contrast, Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) techniques aim to create multiple models that are better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Emilio Cantu-Cervini

Data heterogeneity across participating devices poses one of the main challenges in federated learning as it has been shown to greatly hamper its convergence time and generalization capabilities. In this work, we address this limitation by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Mohamad Mestoukirdi , Matteo Zecchin , David Gesbert , Qianrui Li , Nicolas Gresset

Traditionally, clustered federated learning groups clients with the same data distribution into a cluster, so that every client is uniquely associated with one data distribution and helps train a model for this distribution. We relax this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yichen Ruan , Carlee Joe-Wong

The traditional approach in FL tries to learn a single global model collaboratively with the help of many clients under the orchestration of a central server. However, learning a single global model might not work well for all clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Saeed Vahidian , Mahdi Morafah , Bill Lin

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