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By letting local clients perform multiple local updates before communicating with a parameter server, modern federated learning algorithms such as FedAvg tackle the communication bottleneck problem in distributed learning and have found…

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Federated optimization studies the problem of collaborative function optimization among multiple clients (e.g. mobile devices or organizations) under the coordination of a central server. Since the data is collected separately by each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Chuanhao Li , Chong Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang

Learning sparse combinations is a frequent theme in machine learning. In this paper, we study its associated optimization problem in the distributed setting where the elements to be combined are not centrally located but spread over a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Aurélien Bellet , Yingyu Liang , Alireza Bagheri Garakani , Maria-Florina Balcan , Fei Sha

Federated Learning (FL) has recently received a lot of attention for large-scale privacy-preserving machine learning. However, high communication overheads due to frequent gradient transmissions decelerate FL. To mitigate the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Milad Khademi Nori , Sangseok Yun , Il-Min Kim

Federated learning is a distributed optimization paradigm that allows training machine learning models across decentralized devices while keeping the data localized. The standard method, FedAvg, suffers from client drift which can hamper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Xiaowen Jiang , Anton Rodomanov , Sebastian U. Stich

Federated Learning (FL) is a recent development in distributed machine learning that collaboratively trains models without training data leaving client devices, preserving data privacy. In real-world FL, the training set is distributed over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Rui Jin , Siwei Zheng , Jin Wang

In this paper, we present Federated Robust Curvature Optimization (FedRCO), a novel second-order optimization framework designed to improve convergence speed and reduce communication cost in Federated Learning systems under statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuanqiao Zhang , Tiantian He , Yuan Gao , Yixin Wang , Yew-Soon Ong , Maoguo Gong , A. K. Qin , Hui Li

We study optimization algorithms for the finite sum problems frequently arising in machine learning applications. First, we propose novel variants of stochastic gradient descent with a variance reduction property that enables linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Jakub Konečný

Federated learning (FL), as a distributed collaborative machine learning (ML) framework under privacy-preserving constraints, has garnered increasing research attention in cross-organizational data collaboration scenarios. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Wenyou Guo , Ting Qu , Chunrong Pan , George Q. Huang

Distribution shifts and minority subpopulations frequently undermine the reliability of deep neural networks trained using Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM). Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) addresses this by optimizing for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Aheer Sravon , Devdyuti Mazumder , Md. Ibrahim

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging framework for distributed processing of large data volumes by edge devices subject to limited communication bandwidths, heterogeneity in data distributions and computational resources, as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Yonghai Gong , Yichuan Li , Nikolaos M. Freris

We introduce a collaborative learning framework allowing multiple parties having different sets of attributes about the same user to jointly build models without exposing their raw data or model parameters. In particular, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Yang Liu , Yan Kang , Xinwei Zhang , Liping Li , Yong Cheng , Tianjian Chen , Mingyi Hong , Qiang Yang

Federated learning is a popular distributed and privacy-preserving learning paradigm in machine learning. Recently, some federated learning algorithms have been proposed to solve the distributed minimax problems. However, these federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Feihu Huang , Xinrui Wang , Junyi Li , Songcan Chen

Rapid scaling of deep learning models has enabled performance gains across domains, yet it introduced several challenges. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising framework to address these concerns by enabling decentralized…

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique that preserves data privacy by sharing only the trained parameters instead of the client data. This makes FL ideal for highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and time-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Kasun Eranda Wijethilake , Adnan Mahmood , Quan Z. Sheng

In this paper, a secure and communication-efficient clustered federated learning (CFL) design is proposed. In our model, several base stations (BSs) with heterogeneous task-handling capabilities and multiple users with non-independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Dongyu Wei , Xiaoren Xu , Shiwen Mao , Mingzhe Chen

In this paper, we propose a communication-efficiently decentralized machine learning framework that solves a consensus optimization problem defined over a network of inter-connected workers. The proposed algorithm, Censored and Quantized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Chaouki Ben Issaid , Anis Elgabli , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

Federated learning (FL) offers a solution to train a global machine learning model while still maintaining data privacy, without needing access to data stored locally at the clients. However, FL suffers performance degradation when client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zihan Chen , Kai Fong Ernest Chong , Tony Q. S. Quek

Federated Learning (FL) is an innovative distributed machine learning paradigm that enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a model without sharing their raw data, thereby preserving data privacy. Communication efficiency concerns…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Peishen Yan , Jun Li , Hao Wang , Tao Song , Yang Hua , Lu Peng , Haihui Zhou , Haibing Guan

Federated learning (FL) is a popular machine learning technique that enables multiple users to collaboratively train a model while maintaining the user data privacy. A significant challenge in FL is the communication bottleneck in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Elissa Mhanna , Mohamad Assaad