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Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn in a distributed way, allowing for privacy protection. However, the real-world non-IID data will lead to client drift which degrades the performance of FL.…

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Federated learning (FL) for large language models (LLMs) offers a privacy-preserving scheme, enabling clients to collaboratively fine-tune locally deployed LLMs or smaller language models (SLMs) without exchanging raw data. While…

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We address the challenge of producing trustworthy and accurate compact models for edge devices. While Knowledge Distillation (KD) has improved model compression in terms of achieving high accuracy performance, calibration of these compact…

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On-device machine learning (ML) enables the training process to exploit a massive amount of user-generated private data samples. To enjoy this benefit, inter-device communication overhead should be minimized. With this end, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Eunjeong Jeong , Seungeun Oh , Hyesung Kim , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Federated learning is widely used to learn intelligent models from decentralized data. In federated learning, clients need to communicate their local model updates in each iteration of model learning. However, model updates are large in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm in which distributed local nodes collaboratively train a central model without sharing individually held private data. Existing FL methods either iteratively share local model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Xuan Gong , Shanglin Li , Yuxiang Bao , Barry Yao , Yawen Huang , Ziyan Wu , Baochang Zhang , Yefeng Zheng , David Doermann

Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training without direct data sharing. Model-heterogeneous FL (MHFL) extends this paradigm by allowing clients to train personalized models with heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziqiao Weng , Weidong Cai , Bo Zhou

Federated Averaging, and many federated learning algorithm variants which build upon it, have a limitation: all clients must share the same model architecture. This results in unused modeling capacity on many clients, which limits model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jared Lichtarge , Ehsan Amid , Shankar Kumar , Tien-Ju Yang , Rohan Anil , Rajiv Mathews

While federated learning is promising for privacy-preserving collaborative learning without revealing local data, it remains vulnerable to white-box attacks and struggles to adapt to heterogeneous clients. Federated distillation (FD), built…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Jiawei Shao , Fangzhao Wu , Jun Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many devices collaboratively train a machine learning model while keeping the training data decentralized. In most of the current training schemes the central model is refined by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Tao Lin , Lingjing Kong , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been extensively studied in single-label image classification. However, its efficacy for multi-label classification remains relatively unexplored. In this study, we firstly investigate the effectiveness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Youcai Zhang , Yuzhuo Qin , Hengwei Liu , Yanhao Zhang , Yaqian Li , Xiaodong Gu

Federated learning (FL) enables a decentralized machine learning paradigm for multiple clients to collaboratively train a generalized global model without sharing their private data. Most existing works simply propose typical FL systems for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Huy Q. Le , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Chu Myaet Thwal , Yu Qiao , Chaoning Zhang , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning (FL) often degrades when clients hold heterogeneous non-Independent and Identically Distributed (non-IID) data and when some clients behave adversarially, leading to client drift, slow convergence, and high communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hamza Reguieg , Mohamed El Kamili , Essaid Sabir

Knowledge distillation (KD) methods can transfer knowledge of a parameter-heavy teacher model to a light-weight student model. The status quo for feature KD methods is to utilize loss functions based on logits (i.e., pre-softmax class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Nicholas Cooper , Lijun Chen , Sailesh Dwivedy , Danna Gurari

Federated Learning (FL) seeks to train a model collaboratively without sharing private training data from individual clients. Despite its promise, FL encounters challenges such as high communication costs for large-scale models and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Lin Li , Jianping Gou , Baosheng Yu , Lan Du , Zhang Yiand Dacheng Tao

Federated Learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for collaborative machine learning, while preserving user data privacy. Despite its potential, standard FL lacks support for diverse heterogeneous device prototypes, which vary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Mahdi Morafah , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Hojin Chang , Chen Chen , Bill Lin

Most current federated learning frameworks are modeled as static processes, ignoring the dynamic characteristics of the learning system. Under the limited communication budget of the central server, the flexible model architecture of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yiting Zheng , Bohan Lin , Jinqian Chen , Jihua Zhu

The rise of cloud-device collaborative computing has enabled intelligent services to be delivered across distributed edge devices while leveraging centralized cloud resources. In this paradigm, federated learning (FL) has become a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xiao Zhang , Zengzhe Chen , Yuan Yuan , Yifei Zou , Fuzhen Zhuang , Wenyu Jiao , Yuke Wang , Dongxiao Yu

The rise of sixth generation (6G) wireless networks promises to deliver ultra-reliable, low-latency, and energy-efficient communications, sensing, and computing. However, traditional centralized artificial intelligence (AI) paradigms are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Mengyuan Ma , Nir Shlezinger , Junil Choi , Yonina C. Eldar , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Markku Juntti

Federated learning (FL) is a popular solution for distributed machine learning (ML). While FL has traditionally been studied for supervised ML tasks, in many applications, it is impractical to assume availability of labeled data across…

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