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Federated learning (FL) under data heterogeneity remains challenging: existing methods either ignore client differences (FedAvg), require costly cluster discovery (IFCA), or maintain per-client models (Ditto). All degrade when data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Rickard Brännvall

Federated learning provides the ability to learn over heterogeneous user data in a distributed manner while preserving user privacy. However, its current client selection technique is a source of bias as it discriminates against slow…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Ammar Tahir , Yongzhou Chen , Prashanti Nilayam

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) can be an efficient way to train systems with analogous agents by enabling ``Student'' agents to learn from the demonstrations of the most experienced ``Teacher'' agent, instead of training their policy in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Emma Clark , Kanghyun Ryu , Negar Mehr

Federated Learning is an evolving machine learning paradigm, in which multiple clients perform computations based on their individual private data, interspersed by communication with a remote server. A common strategy to curtail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Kai Yi , Laurent Condat , Peter Richtárik

One underlying assumption of recent federated learning (FL) paradigms is that all local models usually share the same network architecture and size, which becomes impractical for devices with different hardware resources. A scalable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Dezhong Yao , Wanning Pan , Michael J O'Neill , Yutong Dai , Yao Wan , Hai Jin , Lichao Sun

Though successful, federated learning presents new challenges for machine learning, especially when the issue of data heterogeneity, also known as Non-IID data, arises. To cope with the statistical heterogeneity, previous works incorporated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Mahdi Morafah , Saeed Vahidian , Chen Chen , Mubarak Shah , Bill Lin

Machine learning in medical research, by nature, needs careful attention on obeying the regulations of data privacy, making it difficult to train a machine learning model over gathered data from different medical centers. Failure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jun Luo , Shandong Wu

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared model without disclosing their local datasets. This is achieved by exchanging local model updates with the help of a parameter server (PS). However, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Emre Ozfatura , Kerem Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

Stochastic approximation with multiple coupled sequences (MSA) has found broad applications in machine learning as it encompasses a rich class of problems including bilevel optimization (BLO), multi-level compositional optimization (MCO),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , Mingchen Li , Pranay Sharma , Samet Oymak

Federated Learning (FL) is a well-known framework for successfully performing a learning task in an edge computing scenario where the devices involved have limited resources and incomplete data representation. The basic assumption of FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Lorenzo Valerio , Chiara Boldrini , Andrea Passarella , János Kertész , Márton Karsai , Gerardo Iñiguez

Federated learning enables multiple institutions to collaboratively train machine learning models on their local data in a privacy-preserving way. However, its distributed nature often leads to significant heterogeneity in data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Liangqiong Qu , Niranjan Balachandar , Daniel L Rubin

Data heterogeneity across clients is one of the key challenges in Federated Learning (FL), which may slow down the global model convergence and even weaken global model performance. Most existing approaches tackle the heterogeneity by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jun Nie , Danyang Xiao , Lei Yang , Weigang Wu

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed training with private client data, but its convergence is hindered by system heterogeneity under realistic communication scenarios. Most FL schemes addressing system heterogeneity utilize global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Keumseo Ryum , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

There is a growing interest in the distributed optimization framework that goes under the name of Federated Learning (FL). In particular, much attention is being turned to FL scenarios where the network is strongly heterogeneous in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Nicolò Dal Fabbro , Subhrakanti Dey , Michele Rossi , Luca Schenato

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

Traditional federated optimization methods perform poorly with heterogeneous data (ie, accuracy reduction), especially for highly skewed data. In this paper, we investigate the label distribution skew in FL, where the distribution of labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jie Zhang , Zhiqi Li , Bo Li , Jianghe Xu , Shuang Wu , Shouhong Ding , Chao Wu

Graph Federated Learning (GFL) enables distributed graph representation learning while protecting the privacy of graph data. However, GFL suffers from heterogeneity arising from diverse node features and structural topologies across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Wentao Yu , Sheng Wan , Shuo Chen , Bo Han , Chen Gong

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized learning method used to train machine learning algorithms. In FL, a global model iteratively collects the parameters of local models without accessing their local data. However, a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Mingjie Wang , Jianxiong Guo , Weijia Jia

Heterogeneity in time series data is more pronounced than in vision or language, as temporal dynamics vary substantially across domains and tasks. Existing efforts on training time series foundation models (TSFMs) from scratch are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shengchao Chen , Guodong Long , Dikai Liu , Jing Jiang

Heterogeneity in federated learning (FL) is a critical and challenging aspect that significantly impacts model performance and convergence. In this paper, we propose a novel framework by formulating heterogeneous FL as a hierarchical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Yuyang Qiu , Kibaek Kim , Farzad Yousefian