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Federated learning is a form of distributed learning with the key challenge being the non-identically distributed nature of the data in the participating clients. In this paper, we extend federated learning to the setting where multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Neelkamal Bhuyan , Sharayu Moharir

Federated Averaging (FedAvg) has emerged as the algorithm of choice for federated learning due to its simplicity and low communication cost. However, in spite of recent research efforts, its performance is not fully understood. We obtain…

Federated learning enables a large amount of edge computing devices to jointly learn a model without data sharing. As a leading algorithm in this setting, Federated Averaging (\texttt{FedAvg}) runs Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-26 Xiang Li , Kaixuan Huang , Wenhao Yang , Shusen Wang , Zhihua Zhang

Personalized federated learning is aimed at allowing numerous clients to train personalized models while participating in collaborative training in a communication-efficient manner without exchanging private data. However, many personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jaehee Jang , Heonseok Ha , Dahuin Jung , Sungroh Yoon

Meta federated learning (FL) is a personalized variant of FL, where multiple agents collaborate on training an initial shared model without exchanging raw data samples. The initial model should be trained in a way that current or new agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hamid Saber , Jung Hyun Bae

Federated Averaging (FedAvg) and its variants are the most popular optimization algorithms in federated learning (FL). Previous convergence analyses of FedAvg either assume full client participation or partial client participation where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yae Jee Cho , Pranay Sharma , Gauri Joshi , Zheng Xu , Satyen Kale , Tong Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing their private data. However, data heterogeneity across clients leads to client drift, which degrades the overall generalization performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Alina Devkota , Jacob Thrasher , Donald Adjeroh , Binod Bhattarai , Prashnna K. Gyawali

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

For federated learning (FL) algorithms such as FedSAM, their generalization capability is crucial for real-word applications. In this paper, we revisit the generalization problem in FL and investigate the impact of data heterogeneity on FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Liu junkang , Yuanyuan Liu , Fanhua Shang , Hongying Liu , Jin Liu , Wei Feng

Generalization performance is a key metric in evaluating machine learning models when applied to real-world applications. Good generalization indicates the model can predict unseen data correctly when trained under a limited number of data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zhenyu Sun , Xiaochun Niu , Ermin Wei

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning protocol in which a server needs to aggregate a set of models learned some independent clients to proceed the learning process. At present, model averaging, known as FedAvg, is one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Kenta Nagura , Song Bian , Takashi Sato

We consider federated learning (FL), where the training data is distributed across a large number of clients. The standard optimization method in this setting is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which performs multiple local first-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sebastian Bischoff , Stephan Günnemann , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian U. Stich

In this paper, we investigate Federated Learning (FL), a paradigm of machine learning that allows for decentralized model training on devices without sharing raw data, there by preserving data privacy. In particular, we compare two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hamza Reguieg , Mohammed El Hanjri , Mohamed El Kamili , Abdellatif Kobbane

Federated learning is one popular paradigm to train a joint model in a distributed, privacy-preserving environment. But partial annotations pose an obstacle meaning that categories of labels are heterogeneous over clients. We propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Malte Tölle , Fernando Navarro , Sebastian Eble , Ivo Wolf , Bjoern Menze , Sandy Engelhardt

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

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized learning technique that enables participating devices to collaboratively build a shared Machine Leaning (ML) or Deep Learning (DL) model without revealing their raw data to a third party. Due to…

Federated learning has allowed the training of statistical models over remote devices without the transfer of raw client data. In practice, training in heterogeneous and large networks introduce novel challenges in various aspects like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Dipankar Sarkar , Sumit Rai , Ankur Narang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm enabling collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy. In this paper, we revisit the stability of the vanilla FedAvg algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Youngjoon Lee , Jinu Gong , Sun Choi , Joonhyuk Kang

In traffic prediction, the goal is to estimate traffic speed or flow in specific regions or road segments using historical data collected by devices deployed in each area. Each region or road segment can be viewed as an individual client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Audri Banik , Glaucio Haroldo Silva de Carvalho , Renata Dividino

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