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Cross-device Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm with several challenges that differentiate it from traditional distributed learning, variability in the system characteristics on each device, and millions of clients…

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed machine learning framework that allows collaborative learning of a global model across decentralized devices without uploading their local data. However, in real-world FL scenarios, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Md Sirajul Islam , Sanjeev Panta , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that permits a large number of clients with heterogeneous data to coordinate learning of a unified global model without the need to share data amongst each other. A major challenge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Irene Tenison , Sai Aravind Sreeramadas , Vaikkunth Mugunthan , Edouard Oyallon , Irina Rish , Eugene Belilovsky

In Byzantine robust distributed or federated learning, a central server wants to train a machine learning model over data distributed across multiple workers. However, a fraction of these workers may deviate from the prescribed algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Lie He , Martin Jaggi

Federated learning (FL) supports training models on geographically distributed devices. However, traditional FL systems adopt a centralized synchronous strategy, putting high communication pressure and model generalization challenge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Jing Cao , Zirui Lian , Weihong Liu , Zongwei Zhu , Cheng Ji

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

In Federated Learning (FL), a number of clients or devices collaborate to train a model without sharing their data. Models are optimized locally at each client and further communicated to a central hub for aggregation. While FL is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Farshid Varno , Marzie Saghayi , Laya Rafiee Sevyeri , Sharut Gupta , Stan Matwin , Mohammad Havaei

Inherent client drifts caused by data heterogeneity, as well as vulnerability to Byzantine attacks within the system, hinder effective model training and convergence in federated learning (FL). This paper presents two new frameworks, named…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Bingnan Xiao , Feng Zhu , Jingjing Zhang , Wei Ni , Xin Wang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed medical institutions while preserving patient privacy, but remains vulnerable to Byzantine attacks and statistical heterogeneity. We present OptiGradTrust, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Mohammad Karami , Fatemeh Ghassemi , Hamed Kebriaei , Hamid Azadegan

Federated learning obtains a central model on the server by aggregating models trained locally on clients. As a result, federated learning does not require clients to upload their data to the server, thereby preserving the data privacy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Yang Chen , Xiaoyan Sun , Yaochu Jin

Many of the machine learning tasks rely on centralized learning (CL), which requires the transmission of local datasets from the clients to a parameter server (PS) entailing huge communication overhead. To overcome this, federated learning…

Federated learning (FL) refers to the learning paradigm that trains machine learning models directly in the decentralized systems consisting of smart edge devices without transmitting the raw data, which avoids the heavy communication costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Xin Yao , Lifeng Sun

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning framework where the global model of a central server is trained via multiple collaborative steps by participating clients without sharing their data. While being a flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Junhyung Lyle Kim , Mohammad Taha Toghani , César A. Uribe , Anastasios Kyrillidis

The key premise of federated learning (FL) is to train ML models across a diverse set of data-owners (clients), without exchanging local data. An overarching challenge to this date is client heterogeneity, which may arise not only from…

This paper focuses on the problem of adversarial attacks from Byzantine machines in a Federated Learning setting where non-Byzantine machines can be partitioned into disjoint clusters. In this setting, non-Byzantine machines in the same…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Zhixu Tao , Kun Yang , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni

While providing machine learning model as a service to process users' inference requests, online applications can periodically upgrade the model utilizing newly collected data. Federated learning (FL) is beneficial for enabling the training…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Pengchao Han , Shiqiang Wang , Yang Jiao , Jianwei Huang

In Federated Learning (FL), clients may have weak devices that cannot train the full model or even hold it in their memory space. To implement large-scale FL applications, thus, it is crucial to develop a distributed learning method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Sunwoo Lee , Tuo Zhang , Saurav Prakash , Yue Niu , Salman Avestimehr

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

Federated learning often suffers from slow and unstable convergence due to the heterogeneous characteristics of participating client datasets. Such a tendency is aggravated when the client participation ratio is low since the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Geeho Kim , Jinkyu Kim , Bohyung Han

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