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Synchronous federated learning (FL) scales poorly with the number of clients due to the straggler effect. Algorithms like FedAsync and GeneralizedFedAsync address this limitation by enabling asynchronous communication between clients and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Abdelkrim Alahyane , Céline Comte , Matthieu Jonckheere , Éric Moulines

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful approach to safeguard data privacy by training models across distributed edge devices without centralizing local data. Despite advancements in homogeneous data scenarios, maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yuting Ma , Shengeng Tang , Xiaohua Xu , Lechao Cheng

Model compression is important in federated learning (FL) with large models to reduce communication cost. Prior works have been focusing on sparsification based compression that could desparately affect the global model accuracy. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Shengyuan Hu , Jack Goetz , Kshitiz Malik , Hongyuan Zhan , Zhe Liu , Yue Liu

The enormous amount of data produced by mobile and IoT devices has motivated the development of federated learning (FL), a framework allowing such devices (or clients) to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Angelo Rodio , Francescomaria Faticanti , Othmane Marfoq , Giovanni Neglia , Emilio Leonardi

Learning from distributed data without accessing them is undoubtedly a challenging and non-trivial task. Nevertheless, the necessity for distributed training of a statistical model has been increasing, due to the privacy concerns of local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-02 Seok-Ju Hahn

Standard federated learning approaches suffer when client data distributions have sufficient heterogeneity. Recent methods addressed the client data heterogeneity issue via personalized federated learning (PFL) - a class of FL algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Rishub Tamirisa , Chulin Xie , Wenxuan Bao , Andy Zhou , Ron Arel , Aviv Shamsian

As an emerging technology, federated learning (FL) involves training machine learning models over distributed edge devices, which attracts sustained attention and has been extensively studied. However, the heterogeneity of client data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Hao Zhang , Tingting Wu , Siyao Cheng , Jie Liu

Data generated at the network edge can be processed locally by leveraging the paradigm of edge computing (EC). Aided by EC, decentralized federated learning (DFL), which overcomes the single-point-of-failure problem in the parameter server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yunming Liao , Yang Xu , Hongli Xu , Lun Wang , Chen Qian

Federated learning enables collaborative machine learning while preserving data privacy, but high communication and computation costs, exacerbated by statistical and device heterogeneity, limit its practicality in mobile edge computing.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Jinghong Tan , Zhichen Zhang , Kun Guo , Tsung-Hui Chang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Federated Learning (FL) is a recent model training paradigm in which client devices collaboratively train a model without ever aggregating their data. Crucially, this scheme offers users potential privacy and security benefits by only ever…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Raja Vavekanand , Kira Sam

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative machine learning training without sharing private data. Numerous studies have shown that one significant factor affecting the performance of federated learning models is the heterogeneity of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Liang Kuang , Kuangpu Guo , Jian Liang , Jianguo Zhang

Federated learning (FL) has received a surge of interest in recent years thanks to its benefits in data privacy protection, efficient communication, and parallel data processing. Also, with appropriate algorithmic designs, one could achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xin Zhang , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Haibo Yang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu

In a real federated learning (FL) system, communication overhead for passing model parameters between the clients and the parameter server (PS) is often a bottleneck. Hierarchical federated learning (HFL) that poses multiple edge servers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xingrun Yan , Shiyuan Zuo , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Li Shen , Puning Zhao , Yong Luo

Federated Learning has become an important learning paradigm due to its privacy and computational benefits. As the field advances, two key challenges that still remain to be addressed are: (1) system heterogeneity - variability in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Disha Makhija , Nhat Ho , Joydeep Ghosh

As a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) enables all the involved devices to train a global model collaboratively without exposing their local data privacy. However, for non-IID scenarios, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ming Hu , Tian Liu , Zhiwei Ling , Zhihao Yue , Mingsong Chen

Data heterogeneity poses a fundamental challenge in federated learning (FL), especially when clients differ not only in distribution but also in the reliability of their predictions across individual examples. While personalized FL (PFL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amr Abourayya , Jens Kleesiek , Bharat Rao , Michael Kamp

The popularity of federated learning (FL) is on the rise, along with growing concerns about data privacy in artificial intelligence applications. FL facilitates collaborative multi-party model learning while simultaneously ensuring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Muhammad Firdaus , Kyung-Hyune Rhee

We propose a novel algorithm for solving the composite Federated Learning (FL) problem. This algorithm manages non-smooth regularization by strategically decoupling the proximal operator and communication, and addresses client drift without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiaojiao Zhang , Jiang Hu , Mikael Johansson

This work addresses the key challenges of applying federated learning to large-scale deep neural networks, particularly the issue of client drift due to data heterogeneity across clients and the high costs of communication, computation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Jiaojiao Zhang , Yuqi Xu , Kun Yuan

Federated Learning (FL) has been a pivotal paradigm for collaborative training of machine learning models across distributed datasets. In heterogeneous settings, it has been observed that a single shared FL model can lead to low local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yifan Yang , Ali Payani , Parinaz Naghizadeh