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We study the problem of federated clustering when the total number of clusters $K$ across clients is unknown, and the clients have heterogeneous but potentially overlapping cluster sets in their local data. To that end, we develop FedGEM: a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Michael Ibrahim , Nagi Gebraeel , Weijun Xie

Automatic Speech Recognition models require large amount of speech data for training, and the collection of such data often leads to privacy concerns. Federated learning has been widely used and is considered to be an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Rongmei Lin , Yonghui Xiao , Tien-Ju Yang , Ding Zhao , Li Xiong , Giovanni Motta , Françoise Beaufays

Federated learning (FL) has gained widespread attention for its privacy-preserving and collaborative learning capabilities. Due to significant statistical heterogeneity, traditional FL struggles to generalize a shared model across diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yu Feng , Yangli-ao Geng , Yifan Zhu , Zongfu Han , Xie Yu , Kaiwen Xue , Haoran Luo , Mengyang Sun , Guangwei Zhang , Meina Song

We study distributed optimization in a cooperative multi-agent setting, where agents have to agree on the usage of shared resources and can communicate via a time-varying network to this purpose. Each agent has its own decision variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Alessandro Falsone , Kostas Margellos , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

Distributed optimization often consists of two updating phases: local optimization and inter-node communication. Conventional approaches require working nodes to communicate with the server every one or few iterations to guarantee…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Chi Zhang , Qianxiao Li

The federated learning (FL) framework enables edge clients to collaboratively learn a shared inference model while keeping privacy of training data on clients. Recently, many heuristics efforts have been made to generalize centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Jiayin Jin , Jiaxiang Ren , Yang Zhou , Lingjuan Lyu , Ji Liu , Dejing Dou

Submodular continuous functions are a category of (generally) non-convex/non-concave functions with a wide spectrum of applications. We characterize these functions and demonstrate that they can be maximized efficiently with approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Andrew An Bian , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Joachim M. Buhmann , Andreas Krause

We study the maximum capture problem in facility location under random utility models, i.e., the problem of seeking to locate new facilities in a competitive market such that the captured user demand is maximized, assuming that each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Tien Thanh Dam , Thuy Anh Ta , Tien Mai

Vanilla federated learning does not support learning in an online environment, learning a personalized model on each client, and learning in a decentralized setting. There are existing methods extending federated learning in each of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Renzhi Wu , Saayan Mitra , Xiang Chen , Anup Rao

The distributed optimization problem is set up in a collection of nodes interconnected via a communication network. The goal is to find the minimizer of a global objective function formed by the addition of partial functions locally known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Damián Marelli , Yong Xu , Minyue Fu , Zenghong Huang

Federated learning has recently gained popularity as a framework for distributed clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model using local data. While traditional federated learning relies on a central server for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 I-Cheng Lin , Osman Yagan , Carlee Joe-Wong

We consider a class of submodular maximization problems in which decision-makers have limited access to the objective function. We explore scenarios where the decision-maker can observe only pairwise information, i.e., can evaluate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Andrew Downie , Bahman Gharesifard , Stephen L. Smith

Federated learning is a machine learning protocol that enables a large population of agents to collaborate over multiple rounds to produce a single consensus model. There are several federated learning applications where agents may choose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Minbiao Han , Kumar Kshitij Patel , Han Shao , Lingxiao Wang

For many optimization problems in machine learning, finding an optimal solution is computationally intractable and we seek algorithms that perform well in practice. Since computational intractability often results from pathological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Eric Balkanski , Sharon Qian , Yaron Singer

We study the problem of maximizing a non-monotone submodular function under multiple knapsack constraints. We propose a simple discrete greedy algorithm to approach this problem, and prove that it yields strong approximation guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Vanja Doskoč , Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , Frank Neumann , Aneta Neumann , Francesco Quinzan

Submodular functions are a special class of set functions which naturally model the notion of representativeness, diversity, coverage etc. and have been shown to be computationally very efficient. A lot of past work has applied submodular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Vishal Kaushal , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Rishabh Iyer

Combinatorial optimization can be described as the problem of finding a feasible subset that maximizes a objective function. The paper discusses combinatorial optimization problems, where for each dimension the set of feasible subsets is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Nimrod Megiddo

In this note we study multiple-ratio fractional 0--1 programs, a broad class of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. In particular, under some relatively mild assumptions we provide a complete characterization of the conditions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Shaoning Han , Andres Gomez , Oleg A Prokopyev

This paper considers the problem of decentralized, personalized federated learning. For centralized personalized federated learning, a penalty that measures the deviation from the local model and its average, is often added to the objective…

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique designed to preserve data privacy and security, and it has gained significant importance due to its broad range of applications. This paper addresses the problem of optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Lasse Vuursteen