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We explore an active learning approach for dynamic fair resource allocation problems. Unlike previous work that assumes full feedback from all agents on their allocations, we consider feedback from a select subset of agents at each epoch of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Riddhiman Bhattacharya , Thanh Nguyen , Will Wei Sun , Mohit Tawarmalani

Collaborative learning techniques have the potential to enable training machine learning models that are superior to models trained on a single entity's data. However, in many cases, potential participants in such collaborative schemes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Florian E. Dorner , Nikola Konstantinov , Georgi Pashaliev , Martin Vechev

With the proliferation of distributed data sources, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key approach to enable collaborative intelligence through decentralized model training while preserving data privacy. However, conventional FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Noorain Mukhtiar , Adnan Mahmood , Quan Z. Sheng

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging practical framework for effective and scalable machine learning among multiple participants, such as end users, organizations and companies. However, most existing FL or distributed learning frameworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Xinyi Xu , Lingjuan Lyu

In this chapter, we will mainly focus on collaborative training across wireless devices. Training a ML model is equivalent to solving an optimization problem, and many distributed optimization algorithms have been developed over the last…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz , H. Vincent Poor

Emerging network paradigms and applications increasingly rely on federated learning (FL) to enable collaborative intelligence while preserving privacy. However, the sustainability of such collaborative environments hinges on a fair and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhengwei Ni , Zhidu Li , Wei Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zehua Wang , F. Richard Yu , Victor C. M. Leung

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving learning technique that enables distributed computing devices to train shared learning models across data silos collaboratively. Existing FL works mostly focus on designing advanced FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yash Travadi , Le Peng , Xuan Bi , Ju Sun , Mochen Yang

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

Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a resource (loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (loans given that are repaid or criminals that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Hadi Elzayn , Shahin Jabbari , Christopher Jung , Michael Kearns , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Zachary Schutzman

Graph federated learning (FL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm enabling multiple agents to collaboratively train a graph model while preserving local data privacy. Yet, current efforts overlook a key issue: agents are self-interested and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chenglu Pan , Jiarong Xu , Yue Yu , Ziqi Yang , Qingbiao Wu , Chunping Wang , Lei Chen , Yang Yang

Federated Learning (FL) enables data owners to train a shared global model without sharing their private data. Unfortunately, FL is susceptible to an intrinsic fairness issue: due to heterogeneity in clients' data distributions, the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hamid Mozaffari , Amir Houmansadr

Federated learning is an emerging privacy-preserving AI technique where clients (i.e., organisations or devices) train models locally and formulate a global model based on the local model updates without transferring local data externally.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Sin Kit Lo , Yue Liu , Qinghua Lu , Chen Wang , Xiwei Xu , Hye-Young Paik , Liming Zhu

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning across multiple clients. In most FL work, all clients train a single learning task. However, the recent proliferation of FL applications may increasingly require multiple FL tasks to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Marie Siew , Haoran Zhang , Jong-Ik Park , Yuezhou Liu , Yichen Ruan , Lili Su , Stratis Ioannidis , Edmund Yeh , Carlee Joe-Wong

Collaborative learning (CL) enables multiple participants to jointly train machine learning (ML) models on decentralized data sources without raw data sharing. While the primary goal of CL is to maximize the expected accuracy gain for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Nurbek Tastan , Samuel Horvath , Karthik Nandakumar

Model fairness is an essential element for Trustworthy AI. While many techniques for model fairness have been proposed, most of them assume that the training and deployment data distributions are identical, which is often not true in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yuji Roh , Kangwook Lee , Steven Euijong Whang , Changho Suh

In federated learning, client selection is a critical problem that significantly impacts both model performance and fairness. Prior studies typically treat these two objectives separately, or balance them using simple weighting schemes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Qingming Li , Juzheng Miao , Puning Zhao , Li Zhou , H. Vicky Zhao , Shouling Ji , Bowen Zhou , Furui Liu

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a vital paradigm in modern machine learning that enables collaborative training across decentralized data sources without exchanging raw data. This approach not only addresses privacy concerns but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zahra Kharaghani , Ali Dadras , Tommy Löfstedt

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) faces significant scalability issues due to state and action spaces that are exponentially large in the number of agents. As environments grow in size, effective credit assignment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Roy Zohar , Shie Mannor , Guy Tennenholtz

We study the problem of cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning with a single joint reward signal. This class of learning problems is difficult because of the often large combined action and observation spaces. In the fully…

Multi-party learning provides solutions for training joint models with decentralized data under legal and practical constraints. However, traditional multi-party learning approaches are confronted with obstacles such as system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Yuan Gao , Jiawei Li , Maoguo Gong , Yu Xie , A. K. Qin