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Compared with full client participation, partial client participation is a more practical scenario in federated learning, but it may amplify some challenges in federated learning, such as data heterogeneity. The lack of inactive clients'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Feijie Wu , Song Guo , Zhihao Qu , Shiqi He , Ziming Liu , Jing Gao

We present a novel federated multi-task learning method that leverages cross-client similarity to enable personalized learning for each client. To avoid transmitting the entire model to the parameter server, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ahmed Elbakary , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Mehdi Bennis

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates the fine-tuning of Foundation Models (FMs) using distributed data sources, with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) gaining popularity due to its low communication costs and strong performance. While recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zihao Peng , Jiandian Zeng , Boyuan Li , Guo Li , Shengbo Chen , Tian Wang

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful approach to safeguard data privacy by training models across distributed edge devices without centralizing local data. Despite advancements in homogeneous data scenarios, maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yuting Ma , Shengeng Tang , Xiaohua Xu , Lechao Cheng

Federated Learning (FL) allows training machine learning models in privacy-constrained scenarios by enabling the cooperation of edge devices without requiring local data sharing. This approach raises several challenges due to the different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Riccardo Zaccone , Andrea Rizzardi , Debora Caldarola , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

Personalised federated learning (FL) aims at collaboratively learning a machine learning model taylored for each client. Albeit promising advances have been made in this direction, most of existing approaches works do not allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Nikita Kotelevskii , Maxime Vono , Eric Moulines , Alain Durmus

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data in edge environments, but is constrained by limited communication bandwidth and heterogeneous client data distributions. Prototype-based FL mitigates this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hongyue Wu , Hangyu Li , Guodong Fan , Haoran Zhu , Shizhan Chen , Zhiyong Feng

Learning efficient visual representations across heterogeneous unlabeled datasets remains a central challenge in federated learning. Effective federated representations require features that are jointly informative across clients while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Guiqiu Liao , Matjaz Jogan , Eric Eaton , Daniel A. Hashimoto

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a solution for collaborative medical image classification while preserving data privacy. However, label noise, which arises from inter-institutional data variability, can cause training instability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Mengwen Ye , Yingzi Huangfu , Shujian Gao , Wei Ren , Weifan Liu , Zekuan Yu

As a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) enables all the involved devices to train a global model collaboratively without exposing their local data privacy. However, for non-IID scenarios, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ming Hu , Tian Liu , Zhiwei Ling , Zhihao Yue , Mingsong Chen

Federated Learning is a novel paradigm that involves learning from data samples distributed across a large network of clients while the data remains local. It is, however, known that federated learning is prone to multiple system challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Isidoros Tziotis , Hamed Hassani , Aryan Mokhtari , Ramtin Pedarsani

Federated learning is an efficient framework designed to facilitate collaborative model training across multiple distributed devices while preserving user data privacy. A significant challenge of federated learning is data-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Shunxin Guo , Hongsong Wang , Shuxia Lin , Zhiqiang Kou , Xin Geng

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) faces persistent challenges, including domain heterogeneity from diverse client data, data imbalance due to skewed participation, and strict communication constraints. Traditional federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mincheol Jeon , Euinam Huh

To leverage enormous unlabeled data on distributed edge devices, we formulate a new problem in federated learning called Federated Unsupervised Representation Learning (FURL) to learn a common representation model without supervision while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Fengda Zhang , Kun Kuang , Zhaoyang You , Tao Shen , Jun Xiao , Yin Zhang , Chao Wu , Yueting Zhuang , Xiaolin Li

Federated Learning (FL) for face recognition aggregates locally optimized models from individual clients to construct a generalized face recognition model. However, previous studies present two major challenges: insufficient incorporation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Hansol Kim , Hoyeol Choi , Youngjun Kwak

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed machine learning framework that enables geographically discrete clients to train a global model collaboratively while preserving their privacy-sensitive data. However, due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Shensheng Zheng , Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang , Lingjie Duan

This paper considers the Federated learning (FL) in a stochastic approximation (SA) framework. Here, each client $i$ trains a local model using its dataset $\mathcal{D}^{(i)}$ and periodically transmits the model parameters $w^{(i)}_n$ to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Srihari P , Anik Kumar Paul , Bharath Bhikkaji

Training of multimodal foundation models is currently restricted to centralized data centers containing massive, aligned datasets (e.g., image-text pairs). However, in realistic federated environments, data is often unpaired and fragmented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Anders Eklund

In this letter, we design a federated contrastive learning (FedCL) framework aimed at supporting personalized semantic communication. Our FedCL enables collaborative training of local semantic encoders across multiple clients and a global…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Yining Wang , Wanli Ni , Wenqiang Yi , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang , Arumugam Nallanathan

Personalized federated learning (PFL) jointly trains a variety of local models through balancing between knowledge sharing across clients and model personalization per client. This paper addresses PFL via explicit disentangling latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Peng Yan , Guodong Long