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We study three families of online convex optimization algorithms: follow-the-proximally-regularized-leader (FTRL-Proximal), regularized dual averaging (RDA), and composite-objective mirror descent. We first prove equivalence theorems that…

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Deep learning systems are known to exhibit implicit regularization (alt. implicit bias), favoring simple solutions instead of merely minimizing the loss function. In some cases, we can analytically derive the implicit regularization --…

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Federated learning enables a large amount of edge computing devices to learn a model without data sharing jointly. As a leading algorithm in this setting, Federated Average FedAvg, which runs Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) in parallel on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Xiaoxiao Li , Zhao Song , Runzhou Tao , Guangyi Zhang

Federated learning (FL) aims to train machine learning models in the decentralized system consisting of an enormous amount of smart edge devices. Federated averaging (FedAvg), the fundamental algorithm in FL settings, proposes on-device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Xin Yao , Tianchi Huang , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Ruiyu Li , Lifeng Sun

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm where multiple data owners (clients) collaboratively train one machine learning model while keeping data on their own devices. The heterogeneity of client datasets is one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Ye Xue , Diego Klabjan , Yuan Luo

Federated learning (FL) triggers intra-client and inter-client class imbalance, with the latter compared to the former leading to biased client updates and thus deteriorating the distributed models. Such a bias is exacerbated during the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Chenguang Xiao , Zheming Zuo , Shuo Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that scales on-device learning collaboratively and privately. Standard FL algorithms such as FedAvg are primarily geared towards smooth unconstrained settings. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Honglin Yuan , Manzil Zaheer , Sashank Reddi

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 increasingly operates in a large-model regime where communication, memory, and computation are all scarce. Typically, non-IID client data induce drift that degrades the stability and performance of local training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shuchen Zhu , Zhengyang Huang , Yuqi Xu , Peijin Li

In federated learning (FL), model training performance is strongly impacted by data heterogeneity across clients. Client-drift compensation methods have recently emerged as a solution to this issue, introducing correction terms into local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Evan Chen , Shiqiang Wang , Jianing Zhang , Dong-Jun Han , Chaoyue Liu , Christopher Brinton

Federated learning (FL) learns a model jointly from a set of participating devices without sharing each other's privately held data. The characteristics of non-i.i.d. data across the network, low device participation, high communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zhaonan Qu , Kaixiang Lin , Zhaojian Li , Jiayu Zhou , Zhengyuan Zhou

Federated learning is highly valued due to its high-performance computing in distributed environments while safeguarding data privacy. To address resource heterogeneity, researchers have proposed a semi-asynchronous federated learning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yunbo Li , Jiaping Gui , Yue Wu

Federated learning is typically approached as an optimization problem, where the goal is to minimize a global loss function by distributing computation across client devices that possess local data and specify different parts of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Maruan Al-Shedivat , Jennifer Gillenwater , Eric Xing , Afshin Rostamizadeh

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of autonomous driving (AD) models across distributed vehicles while preserving data privacy. However, FL encounters critical challenges such as poor generalization and slow convergence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wei-Bin Kou , Guangxu Zhu , Bingyang Cheng , Chen Zhang , Yik-Chung Wu , Jianping Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative machine learning across distributed data owners, but data heterogeneity poses a challenge for model calibration. While prior work focused on improving accuracy for non-iid data, calibration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hongyi Peng , Han Yu , Xiaoli Tang , Xiaoxiao Li

Federated learning is a machine learning training paradigm that enables clients to jointly train models without sharing their own localized data. However, the implementation of federated learning in practice still faces numerous challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yujia Wang , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative method for training models while preserving data privacy in decentralized settings. However, FL encounters challenges related to data heterogeneity, which can result in performance degradation. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Seongyoon Kim , Gihun Lee , Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

We propose a novel federated learning method for distributively training neural network models, where the server orchestrates cooperation between a subset of randomly chosen devices in each round. We view Federated Learning problem…

Heterogeneous federated learning (HFL) aims to ensure effective and privacy-preserving collaboration among different entities. As newly joined clients require significant adjustments and additional training to align with the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kaile Wang , Jiannong Cao , Yu Yang , Xiaoyin Li , Mingjin Zhang

Performance degradation owing to data heterogeneity and low output interpretability are the most significant challenges faced by federated learning in practical applications. Personalized federated learning diverges from traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Mengen Luo , Chi Xu , Ercan Engin Kuruoglu