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Investigation of the degree of personalization in federated learning algorithms has shown that only maximizing the performance of the global model will confine the capacity of the local models to personalize. In this paper, we advocate an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Yuyang Deng , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a shared global model without exposing clients' private data. In practical FL systems, clients (e.g., edge servers, smartphones, and wearables) typically have disparate system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Leming Shen , Qiang Yang , Kaiyan Cui , Yuanqing Zheng , Xiao-Yong Wei , Jianwei Liu , Jinsong Han

Federated Learning (FL) stands to gain significant advantages from collaboratively training capacity-heterogeneous models, enabling the utilization of private data and computing power from low-capacity devices. However, the focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Zheng Wang , Zheng Wang , Zhaopeng Peng , Zihui Wang , Cheng Wang

Federated learning (FL) supports training models on geographically distributed devices. However, traditional FL systems adopt a centralized synchronous strategy, putting high communication pressure and model generalization challenge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Jing Cao , Zirui Lian , Weihong Liu , Zongwei Zhu , Cheng Ji

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning (ML) paradigm in which models are trained on private data across several devices called clients and combined at a single node called an aggregator rather than aggregating the data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sarang S , Druva Dhakshinamoorthy , Aditya Shiva Sharma , Yuvraj Singh Bhadauria , Siddharth Chaitra Vivek , Arihant Bansal , Arnab K. Paul

Federated Learning (FL) has garnered widespread interest in recent years. However, owing to strict privacy policies or limited storage capacities of training participants such as IoT devices, its effective deployment is often impeded by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Sheng Yue , Zerui Qin , Yongheng Deng , Ju Ren , Yaoxue Zhang , Junshan Zhang

In real-world scenarios, multimodal federated learning often faces the practical challenge of intricate modality missing, which poses constraints on building federated frameworks and significantly degrades model inference accuracy. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Guangyin Bao , Qi Zhang , Duoqian Miao , Zixuan Gong , Liang Hu , Ke Liu , Yang Liu , Chongyang Shi

Federated Learning (FL) enables the multiple participating devices to collaboratively contribute to a global neural network model while keeping the training data locally. Unlike the centralized training setting, the non-IID, imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Moming Duan , Duo Liu , Xinyuan Ji , Yu Wu , Liang Liang , Xianzhang Chen , Yujuan Tan

The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem generates vast amounts of multimodal data from heterogeneous sources such as sensors, cameras, and microphones. As edge intelligence continues to evolve, IoT devices have progressed from simple data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Heqiang Wang , Xiang Liu , Xiaoxiong Zhong , Lixing Chen , Fangming Liu , Weizhe Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) is the most widely adopted collaborative learning approach for training decentralized Machine Learning (ML) models by exchanging learning between clients without sharing the data and compromising privacy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Madapu Amarlingam , Abhishek Wani , Adarsh NL

Model heterogeneity poses a significant challenge in Heterogeneous Federated Learning (HtFL). In scenarios with diverse model architectures, directly aggregating model parameters is impractical, leading HtFL methods to incorporate an extra…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jianqing Zhang , Yang Liu , Yang Hua , Jian Cao , Qiang Yang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative learning across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, FL faces significant challenges when dealing with heterogeneous data distributions, which can lead to suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Duy Phuong Nguyen , J. Pablo Munoz , Tanya Roosta , Ali Jannesari

Selecting proper clients to participate in each federated learning (FL) round is critical to effectively harness a broad range of distributed data. Existing client selection methods simply consider the mining of distributed uni-modal data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yunfeng Fan , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Fushuo Huo , Jinyu Chen , Song Guo

Real-world federated learning faces two key challenges: limited access to labelled data and the presence of heterogeneous multi-modal inputs. This paper proposes TACTFL, a unified framework for semi-supervised multi-modal federated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Guanxiong Sun , Majid Mirmehdi , Zahraa Abdallah , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Ian Craddock , Telmo de Menezes e Silva Filho

Multimodal AI has demonstrated superior performance over unimodal approaches by leveraging diverse data sources for more comprehensive analysis. However, applying this effectiveness in healthcare is challenging due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Pranav Poudel , Prashant Shrestha , Sanskar Amgain , Yash Raj Shrestha , Prashnna Gyawali , Binod Bhattarai

Federated learning (FL) offers privacy-preserving decentralized machine learning, optimizing models at edge clients without sharing private data. Simultaneously, foundation models (FMs) have gained traction in the artificial intelligence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Sixing Yu , J. Pablo Muñoz , Ali Jannesari

Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training without direct data sharing. Model-heterogeneous FL (MHFL) extends this paradigm by allowing clients to train personalized models with heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziqiao Weng , Weidong Cai , Bo Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, yet its performance deteriorates under statistical heterogeneity. Clustered Federated Learning addresses this challenge by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mahad Ali , Laura J. Brattain

In recent years, personalized federated learning (pFL) has attracted increasing attention for its potential in dealing with statistical heterogeneity among clients. However, the state-of-the-art pFL methods rely on model parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Jie Zhang , Song Guo , Xiaosong Ma , Haozhao Wang , Wencao Xu , Feijie Wu

Federated learning (FL) enables a decentralized machine learning paradigm for multiple clients to collaboratively train a generalized global model without sharing their private data. Most existing works simply propose typical FL systems for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Huy Q. Le , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Chu Myaet Thwal , Yu Qiao , Chaoning Zhang , Choong Seon Hong