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In federated learning (FL), weighted aggregation of local models is conducted to generate a global model, and the aggregation weights are normalized (the sum of weights is 1) and proportional to the local data sizes. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zexi Li , Tao Lin , Xinyi Shang , Chao Wu

Models trained in federated settings often suffer from degraded performances and fail at generalizing, especially when facing heterogeneous scenarios. In this work, we investigate such behavior through the lens of geometry of the loss and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Debora Caldarola , Barbara Caputo , Marco Ciccone

Federated learning (FL) enables the collaborative training of deep neural networks across decentralized data archives (i.e., clients), where each client stores data locally and only shares model updates with a central server. This makes FL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Barış Büyüktaş , Jonas Klotz , Begüm Demir

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) enables collaborative model training across distributed edge devices while preserving data privacy, and typically operates in a round-based synchronous manner. However, synchronous FL suffers from latency bottlenecks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Asaf Goren , Natalie Lang , Nir Shlezinger , Alejandro Cohen

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data in edge environments, but is constrained by limited communication bandwidth and heterogeneous client data distributions. Prototype-based FL mitigates this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hongyue Wu , Hangyu Li , Guodong Fan , Haoran Zhu , Shizhan Chen , Zhiyong Feng

The paper considers independent reinforcement learning (IRL) for multi-agent collaborative decision-making in the paradigm of federated learning (FL). However, FL generates excessive communication overheads between agents and a remote…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Xing Xu , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training without sharing local data. Despite its advantages, FL suffers from substantial communication overhead, which can affect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Shiwei Li , Qunwei Li , Haozhao Wang , Ruixuan Li , Jianbin Lin , Wenliang Zhong

Federated learning is a promising distributed machine learning paradigm that can effectively exploit large-scale data without exposing users' privacy. However, it may incur significant communication overhead, thereby potentially impairing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shiwei Li , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Xing Tang , Yining Qi , Shijie Xu , Weihong Luo , Yuhua Li , Xiuqiang He , Ruixuan Li

Personalized federated learning, as a variant of federated learning, trains customized models for clients using their heterogeneously distributed data. However, it is still inconclusive about how to design personalized models with better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Tiansheng Huang , Li Shen , Yan Sun , Weiwei Lin , Dacheng Tao

Machine learning models trained by different optimization algorithms under different data distributions can exhibit distinct generalization behaviors. In this paper, we analyze the generalization of models trained by noisy iterative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-29 Hao Wang , Rui Gao , Flavio P. Calmon

Modern realities and trends in learning require more and more generalization ability of models, which leads to an increase in both models and training sample size. It is already difficult to solve such tasks in a single device mode. This is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Dmitry Bylinkin , Kirill Degtyarev , Aleksandr Beznosikov

The current paradigm of training large language models (LLMs) on public available Web data is becoming unsustainable as high-quality data sources in specialized domains near exhaustion. Federated Learning (FL) emerges as a practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Guochen Yan , Luyuan Xie , Qingni Shen , Yuejian Fang , Zhonghai Wu

This paper proposes a novel federated algorithm that leverages momentum-based variance reduction with adaptive learning to address non-convex settings across heterogeneous data. We intend to minimize communication and computation overhead,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dipanwita Thakur , Antonella Guzzo , Giancarlo Fortino , Sajal K. Das

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a widely adopted training paradigm for privacy-preserving machine learning. While the SGD-based FL algorithms have demonstrated considerable success in the past, there is a growing trend towards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yujia Wang , Shiqiang Wang , Songtao Lu , Jinghui Chen

Motivated by the high resource costs and privacy concerns associated with centralized machine learning, federated learning (FL) has emerged as an efficient alternative that enables clients to collaboratively train a global model while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yiyue Chen , Usman Akram , Chianing Wang , Haris Vikalo

Federated learning (FL) is a heavily promoted approach for training ML models on sensitive data, e.g., text typed by users on their smartphones. FL is expressly designed for training on data that are unbalanced and non-iid across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Tao Yu , Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov

Federated Learning is an emerging learning paradigm that allows training models from samples distributed across a large network of clients while respecting privacy and communication restrictions. Despite its success, federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Isidoros Tziotis , Zebang Shen , Ramtin Pedarsani , Hamed Hassani , Aryan Mokhtari

Personalization methods in federated learning aim to balance the benefits of federated and local training for data availability, communication cost, and robustness to client heterogeneity. Approaches that require clients to communicate all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Karan Singhal , Hakim Sidahmed , Zachary Garrett , Shanshan Wu , Keith Rush , Sushant Prakash

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collectively train a high-performance global model without sharing their private data. However, the key challenge in federated learning is that the clients have significant statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Liang Gao , Huazhu Fu , Li Li , Yingwen Chen , Ming Xu , Cheng-Zhong Xu