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Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-enhancing technology for distributed ML. By training models locally and aggregating updates - a federation learns together, while bypassing centralised data collection. FL is increasingly popular in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Oscar Dilley , Juan Marcelo Parra-Ullauri , Rasheed Hussain , Dimitra Simeonidou

Federated Learning (FL) provides decentralised model training, which effectively tackles problems such as distributed data and privacy preservation. However, the generalisation of global models frequently faces challenges from data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Fairness in Federated Learning (FL) is emerging as a critical factor driven by heterogeneous clients' constraints and balanced model performance across various scenarios. In this survey, we delineate a comprehensive classification of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Noorain Mukhtiar , Adnan Mahmood , Yipeng Zhou , Jian Yang , Jing Teng , Quan Z. Sheng

As a promising paradigm federated Learning (FL) is widely used in privacy-preserving machine learning, which allows distributed devices to collaboratively train a model while avoiding data transmission among clients. Despite its immense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jinglong Shen , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Longfei Ma , Conghao Zhou , Yuan Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning framework that trains accurate global models while preserving clients' privacy-sensitive data. However, most FL approaches assume that clients possess labeled data, which is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Seungjoo Lee , Thanh-Long V. Le , Jaemin Shin , Sung-Ju Lee

Over the past few years, Federated Learning (FL) has become a popular distributed machine learning paradigm. FL involves a group of clients with decentralized data who collaborate to learn a common model under the coordination of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jieming Bian , Lei Wang , Kun Yang , Cong Shen , Jie Xu

Fairness has emerged as one of the key challenges in federated learning. In horizontal federated settings, data heterogeneity often leads to substantial performance disparities across clients, raising concerns about equitable model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 ShanBin Liu

Federated learning (FL) is a widely employed distributed paradigm for collaboratively training machine learning models from multiple clients without sharing local data. In practice, FL encounters challenges in dealing with partial client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Xin Liu , Wei li , Dazhi Zhan , Yu Pan , Xin Ma , Yu Ding , Zhisong Pan

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning framework that enables collaborative model training while respecting data privacy. In various applications, non-uniform availability or participation of users is unavoidable due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Periklis Theodoropoulos , Konstantinos E. Nikolakakis , Dionysis Kalogerias

Many existing federated learning (FL) algorithms are designed for supervised learning tasks, assuming that the local data owned by the clients are well labeled. However, in many practical situations, it could be difficult and expensive to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhiguo Wang , Xintong Wang , Ruoyu Sun , Tsung-Hui Chang

Training ML models which are fair across different demographic groups is of critical importance due to the increased integration of ML in crucial decision-making scenarios such as healthcare and recruitment. Federated learning has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Shen Yan , Chaoyang He , Emilio Ferrara , Salman Avestimehr

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for edge intelligence, enabling collaborative model training while preserving data privacy across distributed personal devices. However, the inherent volatility of edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Obaidullah Zaland , Feras M. Awaysheh , Sawsan Al Zubi , Abdul Rahman Safi , Monowar Bhuyan

In federated learning (FL), heterogeneity among the local dataset distributions of clients can result in unsatisfactory performance for some, leading to an unfair model. To address this challenge, we propose an over-the-air fair federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , H. Vincent Poor

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) enables collaborative training of deep learning models without requiring data to leave local clients, thereby preserving client privacy. The aggregation process on the server plays a critical role in the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Leming Wu , Yaochu Jin , Kuangrong Hao , Han Yu

Early efforts on leveraging self-supervised learning (SSL) to improve machine learning (ML) fairness has proven promising. However, such an approach has yet to be explored within a multimodal context. Prior work has shown that, within a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jiaee Cheong , Abtin Mogharabin , Paul Liang , Hatice Gunes , Sinan Kalkan

As the operations of autonomous systems generally affect simultaneously several users, it is crucial that their designs account for fairness considerations. In contrast to standard (deep) reinforcement learning (RL), we investigate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Umer Siddique , Paul Weng , Matthieu Zimmer

Federated Learning (FL) has shown great potential as a privacy-preserving solution to learning from decentralized data that are only accessible to end devices (i.e., clients). In many scenarios, however, a large proportion of the clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Carsten Maple

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed collaborative learning method, where multiple clients learn together by sharing gradient updates instead of raw data. However, it is well-known that FL is vulnerable to manipulated updates from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Dimitar Chakarov , Nikita Tsoy , Kristian Minchev , Nikola Konstantinov

Federated learning (FL), as an emerging artificial intelligence (AI) approach, enables decentralized model training across multiple devices without exposing their local training data. FL has been increasingly gaining popularity in both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Victoria Huang , Shaleeza Sohail , Michael Mayo , Tania Lorido Botran , Mark Rodrigues , Chris Anderson , Melanie Ooi