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In this paper, we use tools from rate-distortion theory to establish new upper bounds on the generalization error of statistical distributed learning algorithms. Specifically, there are $K$ clients whose individually chosen models are…

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Distributed learning provides an attractive framework for scaling the learning task by sharing the computational load over multiple nodes in a network. Here, we investigate the performance of distributed learning for large-scale linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Martin Hellkvist , Ayça Özçelikkale , Anders Ahlén

We investigate the generalization error of statistical learning models in a Federated Learning (FL) setting. Specifically, we study the evolution of the generalization error with the number of communication rounds $R$ between $K$ clients…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-11 Milad Sefidgaran , Romain Chor , Abdellatif Zaidi , Yijun Wan

We study the generalization error of statistical learning models in a Federated Learning (FL) setting. Specifically, there are $K$ devices or clients, each holding an independent own dataset of size $n$. Individual models, learned locally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-12 Romain Chor , Milad Sefidgaran , Abdellatif Zaidi

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning framework facilitating collaborative training across distributed clients. However, its performance is often compromised by data heterogeneity among participants, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ziru Niu , Hai Dong , A. K. Qin

Federated Learning has emerged as a transformative paradigm for collaborative machine learning across distributed environments. However, its performance is strongly influenced by the aggregation strategy used to combine local model updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Antonios Makris , Christos Dousis , Emmanouil Kritharakis , Stavros Bouras , Konstantinos Tserpes

Federated learning enables multiple institutions to collaboratively train machine learning models on their local data in a privacy-preserving way. However, its distributed nature often leads to significant heterogeneity in data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Liangqiong Qu , Niranjan Balachandar , Daniel L Rubin

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized training of machine learning models on distributed data while preserving privacy. However, in real-world FL settings, client data is often non-identically distributed and imbalanced, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Gergely D. Németh , Eros Fanì , Yeat Jeng Ng , Barbara Caputo , Miguel Ángel Lozano , Nuria Oliver , Novi Quadrianto

Though successful, federated learning presents new challenges for machine learning, especially when the issue of data heterogeneity, also known as Non-IID data, arises. To cope with the statistical heterogeneity, previous works incorporated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Mahdi Morafah , Saeed Vahidian , Chen Chen , Mubarak Shah , Bill Lin

While client sampling is a central operation of current state-of-the-art federated learning (FL) approaches, the impact of this procedure on the convergence and speed of FL remains under-investigated. In this work, we provide a general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Yann Fraboni , Richard Vidal , Laetitia Kameni , Marco Lorenzi

In diverse fields ranging from finance to omics, it is increasingly common that data is distributed and with multiple individual sources (referred to as ``clients'' in some studies). Integrating raw data, although powerful, is often not…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-08 Yuanxing Chen , Qingzhao Zhang , Shuangge Ma , Kuangnan Fang

Distributed learning facilitates the scaling-up of data processing by distributing the computational burden over several nodes. Despite the vast interest in distributed learning, generalization performance of such approaches is not well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-05 Martin Hellkvist , Ayça Özçelikkale , Anders Ahlén

The heterogeneity of hardware and data is a well-known and studied problem in the community of Federated Learning (FL) as running under heterogeneous settings. Recently, custom-size client models trained with Knowledge Distillation (KD) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Hongrui Shi , Valentin Radu , Po Yang

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 enables collaborative training across distributed clients with heterogeneous data, but such heterogeneity often leads to unstable updates and degraded global performance. Moreover, in practical deployments, client updates…

Federated Learning (FL) enables mobile edge devices, functioning as clients, to collaboratively train a decentralized model while ensuring local data privacy. However, the efficiency of FL in wireless networks is limited not only by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yanbing Yang , Huiling Zhu , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Changrun Chen , Jiangzhou Wang

There are situations where data relevant to a machine learning problem are distributed among multiple locations that cannot share the data due to regulatory, competitiveness, or privacy reasons. For example, data present in users'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Dimitris Stripelis , Jose Luis Ambite

Although common in real-world applications, heterogeneous client label sets are rarely investigated in federated learning (FL). Furthermore, in the cases they are, clients are assumed to be willing to share their entire label sets with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Adam Breitholtz , Edvin Listo Zec , Fredrik D. Johansson

Recently, federated learning has emerged as a promising approach for training a global model using data from multiple organizations without leaking their raw data. Nevertheless, directly applying federated learning to real-world tasks faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Bingzhe Wu , Zhipeng Liang , Yuxuan Han , Yatao Bian , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang

Federated Learning has become a widely-used framework which allows learning a global model on decentralized local datasets under the condition of protecting local data privacy. However, federated learning faces severe optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Wenkai Yang , Yankai Lin , Guangxiang Zhao , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun
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