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Advances in Federated Learning and an abundance of user data have enabled rich collaborative learning between multiple clients, without sharing user data. This is done via a central server that aggregates learning in the form of weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Isha Garg , Manish Nagaraj , Kaushik Roy

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of mobile devices to collaboratively learn a model under the coordination of a central server without sharing their raw data. Despite its practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Bing Luo , Xiang Li , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across diverse entities while safeguarding data privacy. However, FL faces challenges such as data heterogeneity and model diversity. The Meta-Federated Learning (Meta-FL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zahir Alsulaimawi

With an increasing number of smart devices like internet of things (IoT) devices deployed in the field, offloadingtraining of neural networks (NNs) to a central server becomes more and more infeasible. Recent efforts toimprove users'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Kilian Pfeiffer , Martin Rapp , Ramin Khalili , Jörg Henkel

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed model training paradigm that preserves clients' data privacy. It has gained tremendous attention from both academia and industry. FL hyper-parameters (e.g., the number of selected clients and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Huanle Zhang , Lei Fu , Mi Zhang , Pengfei Hu , Xiuzhen Cheng , Prasant Mohapatra , Xin Liu

Multiple federated learning (FL) methods are proposed for traffic flow forecasting (TFF) to avoid heavy-transmission and privacy-leaking concerns resulting from the disclosure of raw data in centralized methods. However, these FL methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Qingxiang Liu , Sheng Sun , Yuxuan Liang , Xiaolong Xu , Min Liu , Muhammad Bilal , Yuwei Wang , Xujing Li , Yu Zheng

Large language models trained on massive corpora of data from the web can memorize and reproduce sensitive or private data raising both legal and ethical concerns. Unlearning, or tuning models to forget information present in their training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Pratyush Maini , Zhili Feng , Avi Schwarzschild , Zachary C. Lipton , J. Zico Kolter

In federated learning (FL), weighted aggregation of local models is conducted to generate a global model, and the aggregation weights are normalized (the sum of weights is 1) and proportional to the local data sizes. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zexi Li , Tao Lin , Xinyi Shang , Chao Wu

Federated learning (FL) is a promising approach for learning a model from data distributed on massive clients without exposing data privacy. It works effectively in the ideal federation where clients share homogeneous data distribution and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Hong Lin , Lidan Shou , Ke Chen , Gang Chen , Sai Wu

The growing enforcement of the right to be forgotten regulations has propelled recent advances in certified (graph) unlearning strategies to comply with data removal requests from deployed machine learning (ML) models. Motivated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 O. Deniz Kose , Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen

With the rapid expansion of edge devices, such as IoT devices, where crucial data needed for machine learning applications is generated, it becomes essential to promote their participation in privacy-preserving Federated Learning (FL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Hongrui Shi , Valentin Radu , Po Yang

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm that aims to support loosely connected clients in learning a global model collaboratively with the help of a centralized server. The most popular FL algorithm is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Yaoxin Zhuo , Baoxin Li

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising privacy-preserving distributed machine learning framework recently. It aims at collaboratively learning a shared global model by performing distributed training locally on edge devices and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jingcai Guo , Song Guo , Jie Zhang , Ziming Liu

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing raw data, but privacy regulations such as the right to be forgotten require FL systems to remove the influence of previously used training data upon request.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yue Li , Mingmin Chu , Xilei Yang , Da Xiao , Ziqi Xu , Wei Shao , Qipeng Song , Hui Li

Machine unlearning (MUL) refers to the problem of making a pre-trained model selectively forget some training instances or class(es) while retaining performance on the remaining dataset. Existing MUL research involves fine-tuning using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Soumya Roy , Soumya Banerjee , Vinay Verma , Soumik Dasgupta , Deepak Gupta , Piyush Rai

Federated learning (FL) enables edge-devices to collaboratively learn a model without disclosing their private data to a central aggregating server. Most existing FL algorithms require models of identical architecture to be deployed across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yae Jee Cho , Andre Manoel , Gauri Joshi , Robert Sim , Dimitrios Dimitriadis

Federated learning (FL) is a powerful Machine Learning (ML) paradigm that enables distributed clients to collaboratively learn a shared global model while keeping the data on the original device, thereby preserving privacy. A central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Yi Hu , Hanchi Ren , Chen Hu , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

While federated learning traditionally aims to train a single global model across decentralized local datasets, one model may not always be ideal for all participating clients. Here we propose an alternative, where each client only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Michael Zhang , Karan Sapra , Sanja Fidler , Serena Yeung , Jose M. Alvarez

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy, but its practical deployment is hampered by system and statistical heterogeneity. While federated network pruning offers a path to mitigate these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zheng Jiang , Nan He , Yiming Chen , Lifeng Sun

Unlearning in Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for ensuring ethical and responsible AI use, especially in addressing privacy leak, bias, safety, and evolving regulations. Existing approaches to LLM unlearning often rely on retain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yaxuan Wang , Jiaheng Wei , Chris Yuhao Liu , Jinlong Pang , Quan Liu , Ankit Parag Shah , Yujia Bao , Yang Liu , Wei Wei