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Federated Learning (FL) is a variant of distributed learning where edge devices collaborate to learn a model without sharing their data with the central server or each other. We refer to the process of training multiple independent models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Neelkamal Bhuyan , Sharayu Moharir , Gauri Joshi

Existing theory predicts that data heterogeneity will degrade the performance of the Federated Averaging (FedAvg) algorithm in federated learning. However, in practice, the simple FedAvg algorithm converges very well. This paper explains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Jianyu Wang , Rudrajit Das , Gauri Joshi , Satyen Kale , Zheng Xu , Tong Zhang

Federated Learning has been introduced as a new machine learning paradigm enhancing the use of local devices. At a server level, FL regularly aggregates models learned locally on distributed clients to obtain a more general model. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Anastasiia Usmanova , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

Heterogeneity across clients in federated learning (FL) usually hinders the optimization convergence and generalization performance when the aggregation of clients' knowledge occurs in the gradient space. For example, clients may differ in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yue Tan , Guodong Long , Lu Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Qinghua Lu , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Data heterogeneity across clients is one of the key challenges in Federated Learning (FL), which may slow down the global model convergence and even weaken global model performance. Most existing approaches tackle the heterogeneity by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jun Nie , Danyang Xiao , Lei Yang , Weigang Wu

Federated learning is a distributed learning paradigm in which multiple mobile clients train a global model while keeping data local. These mobile clients can have various available memory and network bandwidth. However, to achieve the best…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Dixi Yao

We consider federated learning of linearly-parameterized nonlinear systems. We establish theoretical guarantees on the effectiveness of federated nonlinear system identification compared to centralized approaches, demonstrating that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Omkar Tupe , Max Hartman , Lav R. Varshney , Saurav Prakash

Federated learning (FL) is a prevailing distributed learning paradigm, where a large number of workers jointly learn a model without sharing their training data. However, high communication costs could arise in FL due to large-scale (deep)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Haibo Yang , Jia Liu , Elizabeth S. Bentley

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent approach for collaborative training of machine learning models across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, the quest to balance acceleration and stability becomes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Liuzhi Zhou , Yu He , Kun Zhai , Xiang Liu , Sen Liu , Xingjun Ma , Guangnan Ye , Yu-Gang Jiang , Hongfeng Chai

Cross-silo federated learning offers a promising solution to collaboratively train robust and generalized AI models without compromising the privacy of local datasets, e.g., healthcare, financial, as well as scientific projects that lack a…

In Federated Learning, we aim to train models across multiple computing units (users), while users can only communicate with a common central server, without exchanging their data samples. This mechanism exploits the computational power of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Alireza Fallah , Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar

The paper studies a fundamental federated learning (FL) problem involving multiple clients with heterogeneous constrained resources. Compared with the numerous training parameters, the computing and communication resources of clients are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ruirui Zhang , Xingze Wu , Yifei Zou , Zhenzhen Xie , Peng Li , Xiuzhen Cheng , Dongxiao Yu

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has garnered widespread attention by enabling collaborative training on multiple clients for semi-supervised classification tasks. However, most existing FGL studies do not well consider the missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Luying Zhong , Yueyang Pi , Zheyi Chen , Zhengxin Yu , Wang Miao , Xing Chen , Geyong Min

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging domain in the broader context of artificial intelligence research. Methodologies pertaining to FL assume distributed model training, consisting of a collection of clients and a server, with the main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Bhargav Ganguly , Vaneet Aggarwal

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared model without exposing their private data. Data heterogeneity is a fundamental challenge in FL, which can result in poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Tao Shen , Zexi Li , Didi Zhu , Ziyu Zhao , Chao Wu , Fei Wu

Federated learning (FL) is increasingly adopted in domains like healthcare, where data privacy is paramount. A fundamental challenge in these systems is statistical heterogeneity-the fact that data distributions vary significantly across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Zijian Wang , Xiaofei Zhang , Xin Zhang , Yukun Liu , Qiong Zhang

In Federated Learning (FL) client devices connected over the internet collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with a central server or with other clients. The seminal Federated Averaging (FedAvg)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min

Federated learning (FL) algorithms usually sample a fraction of clients in each round (partial participation) when the number of participants is large and the server's communication bandwidth is limited. Recent works on the convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Bing Luo , Wenli Xiao , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Federated Learning (FL) algorithms implicitly assume that clients passively comply with server-side orchestration by sharing local model updates upon server request. However, this overlooks an important aspect in real-world cross-silo…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 M Yashwanth , Arunabh Singh , Ashok Nayak , Sai Kiran Bulusu , Anirban Chakraborty

Federated learning is a decentralized training approach that keeps data under stakeholder control while achieving superior performance over isolated training. While inter-institutional feature discrepancies pose a challenge in all federated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Vasilis Siomos , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Giacomo Tarroni