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Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging approach for collaboratively training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on mobile devices, without private user data leaving the devices. Previous works have shown that non-Independent and Identically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min

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

Concerned with user data privacy, this paper presents a new federated learning (FL) method that trains machine learning models on edge devices without accessing sensitive data. Traditional FL methods, although privacy-protective, fail to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Duy Phuong Nguyen , Sixing Yu , J. Pablo Muñoz , Ali Jannesari

Federated Learning (FL) is an intriguing distributed machine learning approach due to its privacy-preserving characteristics. To balance the trade-off between energy and execution latency, and thus accommodate different demands and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao , Huimei Han , Claude Guet

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed machine learning approach that enables collaborative training of a global model using multiple edge devices. The data distributed among the edge devices is highly heterogeneous. Thus, FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ji Liu , Beichen Ma , Qiaolin Yu , Ruoming Jin , Jingbo Zhou , Yang Zhou , Huaiyu Dai , Haixun Wang , Dejing Dou , Patrick Valduriez

One-shot Federated Learning (OFL) significantly reduces communication costs in FL by aggregating trained models only once. However, the performance of advanced OFL methods is far behind the normal FL. In this work, we provide a causal view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zhenheng Tang , Yonggang Zhang , Peijie Dong , Yiu-ming Cheung , Amelie Chi Zhou , Bo Han , Xiaowen Chu

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a promising distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm. Practical needs of the "right to be forgotten" and countering data poisoning attacks call for efficient techniques that can remove, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Gaoyang Liu , Xiaoqiang Ma , Yang Yang , Chen Wang , Jiangchuan Liu

Recently, foundation models have exhibited remarkable advancements in multi-modal learning. These models, equipped with millions (or billions) of parameters, typically require a substantial amount of data for finetuning. However, collecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Haokun Chen , Yao Zhang , Denis Krompass , Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Federated Learning (FL) commonly relies on a central server to coordinate training across distributed clients. While effective, this paradigm suffers from significant communication overhead, impacting overall training efficiency. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jungwon Seo , Minhoe Kim , Chunming Rong

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a significant paradigm for training machine learning models. This is due to its data-privacy-preserving property and its efficient exploitation of distributed computational resources. This is achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mustafa Ghaleb , Mohanad Obeed , Muhamad Felemban , Anas Chaaban , Halim Yanikomeroglu

This paper explores the multifaceted consequences of federated unlearning (FU) with data heterogeneity. We introduce key metrics for FU assessment, concentrating on verification, global stability, and local fairness, and investigate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jiaqi Shao , Tao Lin , Xuanyu Cao , Bing Luo

Machine learning models (mainly neural networks) are used more and more in real life. Users feed their data to the model for training. But these processes are often one-way. Once trained, the model remembers the data. Even when data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Zihao Cao , Jianzong Wang , Shijing Si , Zhangcheng Huang , Jing Xiao

Federated Learning (FL) has become an established technique to facilitate privacy-preserving collaborative training across a multitude of clients. However, new approaches to FL often discuss their contributions involving small deep-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Herbert Woisetschläger , Alexander Isenko , Shiqiang Wang , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

There has been a surge of interest in continual learning and federated learning, both of which are important in deep neural networks in real-world scenarios. Yet little research has been done regarding the scenario where each client learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jaehong Yoon , Wonyong Jeong , Giwoong Lee , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

The performance of Federated Learning (FL) hinges on the effectiveness of utilizing knowledge from distributed datasets. Traditional FL methods adopt an aggregate-then-adapt framework, where clients update local models based on a global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yuan Wang , Huazhu Fu , Renuga Kanagavelu , Qingsong Wei , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh

In federated learning (FL), clients usually have diverse participation statistics that are unknown a priori, which can significantly harm the performance of FL if not handled properly. Existing works aiming at addressing this problem are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Shiqiang Wang , Mingyue Ji

Federated Learning is widely employed to tackle distributed sensitive data. Existing methods primarily focus on addressing in-federation data heterogeneity. However, we observed that they suffer from significant performance degradation when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Mengmeng Ma , Tang Li , Xi Peng

Federated Learning (FL) seeks to distribute model training across local clients without collecting data in a centralized data-center, hence removing data-privacy concerns. A major challenge for FL is data heterogeneity (where each client's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Junjiao Tian , James Seale Smith , Zsolt Kira

In the federated learning setting, multiple clients jointly train a model under the coordination of the central server, while the training data is kept on the client to ensure privacy. Normally, inconsistent distribution of data across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Wei Huang , Tianrui Li , Dexian Wang , Shengdong Du , Junbo Zhang

Federated learning is a training paradigm according to which a server-based model is cooperatively trained using local models running on edge devices and ensuring data privacy. These devices exchange information that induces a substantial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-06 José Ángel Morell , Zakaria Abdelmoiz Dahi , Francisco Chicano , Gabriel Luque , Enrique Alba