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The federated learning (FL) framework trains a machine learning model using decentralized data stored at edge client devices by periodically aggregating locally trained models. Popular optimization algorithms of FL use vanilla (stochastic)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Jianyu Wang , Zheng Xu , Zachary Garrett , Zachary Charles , Luyang Liu , Gauri Joshi

With the advancement of edge computing, federated learning (FL) displays a bright promise as a privacy-preserving collaborative learning paradigm. However, one major challenge for FL is the data heterogeneity issue, which refers to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Huan Wang , Haoran Li , Huaming Chen , Jun Yan , Lijuan Wang , Jiahua Shi , Shiping Chen , Jun Shen

We envision a mobile edge computing (MEC) framework for machine learning (ML) technologies, which leverages distributed client data and computation resources for training high-performance ML models while preserving client privacy. Toward…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Takayuki Nishio , Ryo Yonetani

Federated Learning (FL) is a method of training machine learning models on private data distributed over a large number of possibly heterogeneous clients such as mobile phones and IoT devices. In this work, we propose a new federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

As privacy protection gains increasing importance, more models are being trained on edge devices and subsequently merged into the central server through Federated Learning (FL). However, current research overlooks the impact of network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hangyu Li , Hongyue Wu , Guodong Fan , Zhen Zhang , Shizhan Chen , Zhiyong Feng

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent method for collaboratively training machine learning models using local data from edge devices, all while keeping data decentralized. However, accounting for the quality of data contributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Haoyuan Li , Mathias Funk , Nezihe Merve Gürel , Aaqib Saeed

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning methodology that involves the collaborative training of a global model across multiple decentralized clients in a privacy-preserving way. Several FL methods are introduced to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jordan Slessor , Dezheng Kong , Xiaofen Tang , Zheng En Than , Linglong Kong

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) enhances generalization by reducing a Max-Sharpness (MaxS). Despite the practical success, we empirically found that the MAxS behind SAM's generalization enhancements face the "Flatness Indicator Problem"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jiaxin Deng , Junbiao Pang , Baochang Zhang , Qingming Huang

Federated learning enables collaborative machine learning while preserving data privacy, but high communication and computation costs, exacerbated by statistical and device heterogeneity, limit its practicality in mobile edge computing.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Jinghong Tan , Zhichen Zhang , Kun Guo , Tsung-Hui Chang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Achieving fairness across diverse clients in Federated Learning (FL) remains a significant challenge due to the heterogeneity of the data and the inaccessibility of sensitive attributes from clients' private datasets. This study addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Disha Makhija , Xing Han , Joydeep Ghosh , Yejin Kim

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed learning paradigm under privacy constraint. Data heterogeneity is one of the main challenges in FL, which results in slow convergence and degraded performance. Most existing approaches only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Lin Zhang , Li Shen , Liang Ding , Dacheng Tao , Ling-Yu Duan

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

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that achieves a globally robust model through decentralized computation and periodic model synthesis, primarily focusing on the global model's accuracy over aggregated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Han Liang , Ziwei Zhan , Weijie Liu , Xiaoxi Zhang , Chee Wei Tan , Xu Chen

Federated Learning (FL) has evolved as a promising technique to handle distributed machine learning across edge devices. A single neural network (NN) that optimises a global objective is generally learned in most work in FL, which could be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sawan Singh Mahara , Shruti M. , B. N. Bharath , Akash Murthy

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Hongda Wu , Ping Wang , C V Aswartha Narayana

Federated learning (FL) enables geographically dispersed edge devices (i.e., clients) to learn a global model without sharing the local datasets, where each client performs gradient descent with its local data and uploads the gradients to a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Heting Liu , Fang He , Guohong Cao

Federated learning enables distributed clients to collaborate on training while storing their data locally to protect client privacy. However, due to the heterogeneity of data, models, and devices, the final global model may need to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Wolong Xing , Zhenkui Shi , Hongyan Peng , Xiantao Hu , Xianxian Li

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach to learn models on decentralized heterogeneous data, without the need for clients to share their data. Many existing FL approaches assume that all clients have equal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Aditya Narayan Ravi , Ilan Shomorony

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

Federated Learning (FL) enables a group of clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing individual data, but its performance drops when client data are heterogeneous. Clustered FL tackles this by grouping similar clients.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Anik Pramanik , Murat Kantarcioglu , Vincent Oria , Shantanu Sharma