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Federated Learning (FL) is an increasingly popular machine learning paradigm in which multiple nodes try to collaboratively learn under privacy, communication and multiple heterogeneity constraints. A persistent problem in federated…

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The Federated Averaging (FedAvg) algorithm, which consists of alternating between a few local stochastic gradient updates at client nodes, followed by a model averaging update at the server, is perhaps the most commonly used method in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Liam Collins , Hamed Hassani , Aryan Mokhtari , Sanjay Shakkottai

Federated learning is a decentralized training approach that keeps data under stakeholder control while achieving superior performance over isolated training. While inter-institutional feature discrepancies pose a challenge in all federated…

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Federated learning (FL), as a collaborative distributed training paradigm with several edge computing devices under the coordination of a centralized server, is plagued by inconsistent local stationary points due to the heterogeneity of the…

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Despite the remarkable performance of deep models in medical imaging, they still require source data for training, which limits their potential in light of privacy concerns. Federated learning (FL), as a decentralized learning framework…

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Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative model training among distributed parties without pooling local datasets at a central server. However, the distributed nature of FL poses challenges in training fair federated learning models. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yi Zhou , Naman Goel

Federated Learning (FL) with pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has emerged as a promising paradigm for various downstream tasks. By leveraging its strong representations, recent studies improve task adaptation under insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yuting Ma , Lechao Cheng , Xiaohua Xu

Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving solution for fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) using distributed private datasets, enabling task-specific adaptation while preserving data privacy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Na Yan , Yang Su , Yansha Deng , Robert Schober

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across multiple clients without exposing private data, making it ideal for privacy-sensitive applications. However, in real-world FL scenarios, clients often hold data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Huy Q. Le , Loc X. Nguyen , Yu Qiao , Seong Tae Kim , Eui-Nam Huh , Choong Seon Hong

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising framework for performing privacy-preserving, distributed learning with a set of clients. However, the data distribution among clients often exhibits non-IID, i.e., distribution shift, which makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zhe Qu , Xingyu Li , Rui Duan , Yao Liu , Bo Tang , Zhuo Lu

Federated learning (FL) allows edge devices to collectively learn a model without directly sharing data within each device, thus preserving privacy and eliminating the need to store data globally. While there are promising results under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Tehrim Yoon , Sumin Shin , Sung Ju Hwang , Eunho Yang

Although Federated Learning (FL) enables global model training across clients without compromising their raw data, due to the unevenly distributed data among clients, existing Federated Averaging (FedAvg)-based methods suffer from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ming Hu , Zhihao Yue , Xiaofei Xie , Cheng Chen , Yihao Huang , Xian Wei , Xiang Lian , Yang Liu , Mingsong Chen

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful approach to safeguard data privacy by training models across distributed edge devices without centralizing local data. Despite advancements in homogeneous data scenarios, maintaining…

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Over the past few years, the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been reshaped by the emergence of Foundation Models (FMs). Pre-trained on massive datasets, these models exhibit exceptional performance across diverse downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shenghui Li , Fanghua Ye , Meng Fang , Jiaxu Zhao , Yun-Hin Chan , Edith C. H. Ngai , Thiemo Voigt

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data locality. Although FedAvg pioneered synchronous rounds for global model averaging, slower devices can delay collective progress.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Sanghyeon Park , Soo-Mook Moon

To eliminate the requirement of fully-labeled data for supervised model training in traditional Federated Learning (FL), extensive attention has been paid to the application of Self-supervised Learning (SSL) approaches on FL to tackle the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yi Liu , Song Guo , Jie Zhang , Qihua Zhou , Yingchun Wang , Xiaohan Zhao

In mobile and IoT systems, Federated Learning (FL) is increasingly important for effectively using data while maintaining user privacy. One key challenge in FL is managing statistical heterogeneity, such as non-i.i.d. data, arising from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Kunda Yan , Sen Cui , Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi , Jingfeng Zhang , Bo Han , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Changshui Zhang

Clustered federated learning (CFL) is proposed to mitigate the performance deterioration stemming from data heterogeneity in federated learning (FL) by grouping similar clients for cluster-wise model training. However, current CFL methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yuxin Zhang , Haoyu Chen , Zheng Lin , Zhe Chen , Jin Zhao

In the last years, Federated learning (FL) has become a popular solution to train machine learning models in domains with high privacy concerns. However, FL scalability and performance face significant challenges in real-world deployments…

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