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Federated learning enables a large amount of edge computing devices to jointly learn a model without data sharing. As a leading algorithm in this setting, Federated Averaging (\texttt{FedAvg}) runs Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) in…

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Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative machine learning across distributed data owners, but data heterogeneity poses a challenge for model calibration. While prior work focused on improving accuracy for non-iid data, calibration…

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Federated learning (FL) as a distributed learning paradigm has a significant advantage in addressing large-scale machine learning tasks. In the Euclidean setting, FL algorithms have been extensively studied with both theoretical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zhenwei Huang , Wen Huang , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed training paradigm that aims to learn a common global model without exchanging or transferring the data that are stored locally at different clients. The Federated Averaging (FedAvg)-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xiaolu Wang , Zijian Li , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that enables model training in communication efficient and privacy-preserving manner. The standard optimization method in FL is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which performs…

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Asynchronous federated learning aims to solve the straggler problem in heterogeneous environments, i.e., clients have small computational capacities that could cause aggregation delay. The principle of asynchronous federated learning is to…

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Synchronous updates may compromise the efficiency of cross-device federated learning once the number of active clients increases. The \textit{FedBuff} algorithm (Nguyen et al., 2022) alleviates this problem by allowing asynchronous updates…

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Federated learning (FL) enables on-device training over distributed networks consisting of a massive amount of modern smart devices, such as smartphones and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. However, the leading optimization algorithm in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xin Yao , Tianchi Huang , Chenglei Wu , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Lifeng Sun

Federated learning involves training statistical models in massive, heterogeneous networks. Naively minimizing an aggregate loss function in such a network may disproportionately advantage or disadvantage some of the devices. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Tian Li , Maziar Sanjabi , Ahmad Beirami , Virginia Smith

Federated learning has been showing as a promising approach in paving the last mile of artificial intelligence, due to its great potential of solving the data isolation problem in large scale machine learning. Particularly, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Yanan Li , Shusen Yang , Xuebin Ren , Cong Zhao

Federated Learning (FL) in Deep Learning (DL)-automated medical image segmentation helps preserving privacy by enabling collaborative model training without sharing patient data. However, FL faces challenges with data heterogeneity among…

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Federated learning enables a large amount of edge computing devices to learn a model without data sharing jointly. As a leading algorithm in this setting, Federated Average FedAvg, which runs Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) in parallel on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Xiaoxiao Li , Zhao Song , Runzhou Tao , Guangyi Zhang

We propose a novel framework to study asynchronous federated learning optimization with delays in gradient updates. Our theoretical framework extends the standard FedAvg aggregation scheme by introducing stochastic aggregation weights to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yann Fraboni , Richard Vidal , Laetitia Kameni , Marco Lorenzi

Federated Learning (FL) enables many resource-limited devices to train a model collaboratively without data sharing. However, many existing works focus on model-homogeneous FL, where the global and local models are the same size, ignoring…

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Federated Learning (FL) enables training Artificial Intelligence (AI) models over end devices without compromising their privacy. As computing tasks are increasingly performed by a combination of cloud, edge, and end devices, FL can benefit…

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In traffic prediction, the goal is to estimate traffic speed or flow in specific regions or road segments using historical data collected by devices deployed in each area. Each region or road segment can be viewed as an individual client…

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Federated Learning (FL) confronts a significant challenge known as data heterogeneity, which impairs model performance and convergence. Existing methods have made notable progress in addressing this issue. However, improving performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Zhiqin Yang , Yonggang Zhang , Chenxin Li , Yiu-ming Cheung , Bo Han , Yixuan Yuan

Federated learning enables a population of clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without exchanging their raw data, but standard algorithms such as FedAvg suffer from slow convergence and high communication and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yutong He , Zhengyang Huang , Jiahe Geng

Local Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) with periodic model averaging (FedAvg) is a foundational algorithm in Federated Learning. The algorithm independently runs SGD on multiple workers and periodically averages the model across all the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Sunwoo Lee , Anit Kumar Sahu , Chaoyang He , Salman Avestimehr

Federated learning (FL) typically relies on synchronous training, which is slow due to stragglers. While asynchronous training handles stragglers efficiently, it does not ensure privacy due to the incompatibility with the secure aggregation…

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