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Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving learning technique that enables distributed computing devices to train shared learning models across data silos collaboratively. Existing FL works mostly focus on designing advanced FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yash Travadi , Le Peng , Xuan Bi , Ju Sun , Mochen Yang

Improving the fairness of federated learning (FL) benefits healthy and sustainable collaboration, especially for medical applications. However, existing fair FL methods ignore the specific characteristics of medical FL applications, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yunlu Yan , Lei Zhu , Yuexiang Li , Xinxing Xu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu , Salman Khan , Chun-Mei Feng

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a solution to deal with the risk of privacy leaks in machine learning training. This approach allows a variety of mobile devices to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Young Geun Kim , Carole-Jean Wu

Federated learning (FL) is a paradigm where many clients collaboratively train a model under the coordination of a central server, while keeping the training data locally stored. However, heterogeneous data distributions over different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yaqi Sun , Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Yuhan Dong , Zhitao Zhu , Jing Xiao

Over recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has proven to be one of the most promising methods of distributed learning which preserves data privacy. As the method evolved and was confronted to various real-world scenarios, new challenges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-15 Michael Ben Ali , Omar El-Rifai , Imen Megdiche , André Peninou , Olivier Teste

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique that trains massive and geographically distributed edge data while maintaining privacy. However, FL has inherent challenges in terms of fairness and computational efficiency due to the rising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yingchun Wang , Jingcai Guo , Jie Zhang , Song Guo , Weizhan Zhang , Qinghua Zheng

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed paradigm that coordinates massive local clients to collaboratively train a global model via stage-wise local training processes on the heterogeneous dataset. Previous works have implicitly studied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Li Shen , Yan Sun , Dacheng Tao

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple nodes to collaboratively train a model without sharing raw data. However, FL systems are usually deployed in heterogeneous scenarios, where nodes differ in both data distributions and participation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hongliang Zhang , Jiguo Yu , Guijuan Wang , Wenshuo Ma , Tianqing He , Baobao Chai , Chunqiang Hu

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that allows a model to be trained across a number of participants without sharing data. Recent works have begun to consider the effects of using pre-trained models as an initialization point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Gwen Legate , Nicolas Bernier , Lucas Caccia , Edouard Oyallon , Eugene Belilovsky

We consider a federated learning (FL) system consisting of multiple clients and a server, where the clients aim to collaboratively learn a common decision model from their distributed data. Unlike the conventional FL framework that assumes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Kun Jin , Tongxin Yin , Zhongzhu Chen , Zeyu Sun , Xueru Zhang , Yang Liu , Mingyan Liu

Federated learning (FL) is a promising strategy for performing privacy-preserving, distributed learning with a network of clients (i.e., edge devices). However, the data distribution among clients is often non-IID in nature, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Matias Mendieta , Taojiannan Yang , Pu Wang , Minwoo Lee , Zhengming Ding , Chen Chen

Federated Learning (FL) enables a group of clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing individual data, but its performance drops when client data are heterogeneous. Clustered FL tackles this by grouping similar clients.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Anik Pramanik , Murat Kantarcioglu , Vincent Oria , Shantanu Sharma

Despite growing efforts to mitigate unfairness in recommender systems, existing fairness-aware methods typically fix the fairness requirement at training time and provide limited post-training flexibility. However, in real-world scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Weixin Chen , Li Chen , Yuhan Zhao

Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed institutions without centralizing sensitive data; however, ensuring algorithmic fairness across heterogeneous data distributions while preserving privacy remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Mohammed Himayath Ali , Mohammed Aqib Abdullah , Syed Muneer Hussain , Mohammed Mudassir Uddin , Shahnawaz Alam

This paper studies a new task of federated learning (FL) for semantic parsing, where multiple clients collaboratively train one global model without sharing their semantic parsing data. By leveraging data from multiple clients, the FL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Tianshu Zhang , Changchang Liu , Wei-Han Lee , Yu Su , Huan Sun

Conventional federated learning (FL) heavily depends on high-quality labels, which are often impractical in the real world, leading to the federated label-noise (F-LN) problem. Worse still, the F-LN problem is exacerbated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuxin Tian , Mouxing Yang , Yuhao Zhou , Jian Wang , Qing Ye , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Jiancheng Lv

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-enhancing technology for distributed ML. By training models locally and aggregating updates - a federation learns together, while bypassing centralised data collection. FL is increasingly popular in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Oscar Dilley , Juan Marcelo Parra-Ullauri , Rasheed Hussain , Dimitra Simeonidou

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables multiple clients to learn a powerful global model by aggregating local training. However, the performance of the global model is often hampered by non-i.i.d.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Chun-Mei Feng , Kai Yu , Nian Liu , Xinxing Xu , Salman Khan , Wangmeng Zuo

Federated Learning (FL) confronts a significant challenge known as data heterogeneity, which impairs model performance and convergence. Existing methods have made notable progress in addressing this issue. However, improving performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Zhiqin Yang , Yonggang Zhang , Chenxin Li , Yiu-ming Cheung , Bo Han , Yixuan Yuan

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative distributed learning paradigm, enabling multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model under the coordination of a central server without sharing their raw training data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Tianrun Yu , Kaixiang Zhao , Cheng Zhang , Anjun Gao , Yueyang Quan , Zhuqing Liu , Minghong Fang