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Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized collaborative machine learning (ML) technique. It provides a solution to the issues of isolated data islands and data privacy leakage in industrial ML practices. One major challenge in FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yushan Zhao , Jinyuan He , Donglai Chen , Weijie Luo , Chong Xie , Ri Zhang , Yonghong Chen , Yan Xu

Personalization in federated learning (FL) functions as a coordinator for clients with high variance in data or behavior. Ensuring the convergence of these clients' models relies on how closely users collaborate with those with similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Eunjeong Jeong , Marios Kountouris

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing data. However, real-world deployments must simultaneously address statistical heterogeneity across client data (non-IID), system heterogeneity in device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chaimaa Medjadji , Sylvain Kubler , Yves Le Traon , Guilain Leduc , Sadi Alawadi , Feras M. Awaysheh

In a practical setting, how to enable robust Federated Learning (FL) systems, both in terms of generalization and personalization abilities, is one important research question. It is a challenging issue due to the consequences of non-i.i.d.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Huy Q. Le , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Shashi Raj Pandey , Chaoning Zhang , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning enables multiple distributed devices to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model without centralizing their on-device data. Most of the current algorithms require comparable individual efforts for local training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Lan Zhang , Dapeng Wu , Xiaoyong Yuan

Federated learning (FL) operates in heterogeneous environments, where variations in data distributions and asymmetric model design often result in negative transfer. While federated knowledge distillation (FKD) avoids direct model parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Quang-Huy Nguyen , Jiaqi Wang , Wei-shinn Ku

While Federated Learning (FL) is gaining popularity for training machine learning models in a decentralized fashion, numerous challenges persist, such as asynchronization, computational expenses, data heterogeneity, and gradient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chun-Yin Huang , Ruinan Jin , Can Zhao , Daguang Xu , Xiaoxiao Li

Federated learning provides a privacy-preserving manner to collaboratively train models on data distributed over multiple local clients via the coordination of a global server. In this paper, we focus on label distribution skew in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jianghu Lu , Shikun Li , Kexin Bao , Pengju Wang , Zhenxing Qian , Shiming Ge

In federated learning, the heterogeneity of client data has a great impact on the performance of model training. Many heterogeneity issues in this process are raised by non-independently and identically distributed (non-IID) data. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Xiufang Shi , Wei Zhang , Yuheng Li , Mincheng Wu , Zhenyu Wen , Shibo He , Tejal Shah , Rajiv Ranjan

Data heterogeneity presents significant challenges for federated learning (FL). Recently, dataset distillation techniques have been introduced, and performed at the client level, to attempt to mitigate some of these challenges. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yuqi Jia , Saeed Vahidian , Jingwei Sun , Jianyi Zhang , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yiran Chen

As a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) trains a central model with decentralized data without compromising user privacy, which has made it widely used by Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Tian Liu , Zhiwei Ling , Jun Xia , Xin Fu , Shui Yu , Mingsong Chen

Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods are capable of transferring the knowledge encoded in a large and complex teacher into a smaller and faster student. Early methods were usually limited to transferring the knowledge only between the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Nikolaos Passalis , Maria Tzelepi , Anastasios Tefas

In recent years, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising technique for training machine learning models in a decentralized manner while also preserving data privacy. The non-independent and identically distributed (non-i.i.d.)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Yousef Alsenani , Rahul Mishra , Khaled R. Ahmed , Atta Ur Rahman

The performance of federated learning in neural networks is generally influenced by the heterogeneity of the data distribution. For a well-performing global model, taking a weighted average of the local models, as done by most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xinjia Li , Boyu Chen , Wenlian Lu

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm where many local nodes collaboratively train a central model while keeping the training data decentralized. This is particularly relevant for clinical applications since patient data…

This paper addresses the challenge of mitigating data heterogeneity among clients within a Federated Learning (FL) framework. The model-drift issue, arising from the noniid nature of client data, often results in suboptimal personalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Kawa Atapour , S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi , Jamshid Abouei , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-constrained decentralized machine learning paradigm in which clients enable collaborative training without compromising private data. However, how to learn a robust global model in the data-heterogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Kangyang Luo , Shuai Wang , Yexuan Fu , Xiang Li , Yunshi Lan , Ming Gao

Federated Learning (FL) is an evolving machine learning method in which multiple clients participate in collaborative learning without sharing their data with each other and the central server. In real-world applications such as hospitals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Hussain Ahmad Madni , Rao Muhammad Umer , Gian Luca Foresti

Federated learning (FL) offers a privacy-preserving framework for distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across diverse clients without centralizing sensitive data. However, statistical heterogeneity,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-08 Hengrui Hu , Anai N. Kothari , Anjishnu Banerjee

Knowledge distillation (KD) aims to distill the knowledge from the teacher (larger) to the student (smaller) model via soft-label for the efficient neural network. In general, the performance of a model is determined by accuracy, which is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Stephen Ekaputra Limantoro