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The longstanding goals of federated learning (FL) require rigorous privacy guarantees and low communication overhead while holding a relatively high model accuracy. However, simultaneously achieving all the goals is extremely challenging.…

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In federated learning, clients share a global model that has been trained on decentralized local client data. Although federated learning shows significant promise as a key approach when data cannot be shared or centralized, current methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Edvin Listo Zec , Olof Mogren , John Martinsson , Leon René Sütfeld , Daniel Gillblad

Graph Federated Learning (GFL) enables distributed graph representation learning while protecting the privacy of graph data. However, GFL suffers from heterogeneity arising from diverse node features and structural topologies across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Wentao Yu , Sheng Wan , Shuo Chen , Bo Han , Chen Gong

Federated learning (FL) has been recognized as a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning paradigm that enables knowledge sharing among various heterogeneous artificial intelligence (AIoT) devices through centralized global model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Jun Xia , Yi Zhang , Zhihao Yue , Ming Hu , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm that enables collaborative learning across clients without sharing local data, thereby preserving privacy. However, the increasing scale and complexity of modern deep models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Honggu Kang , Seohyeon Cha , Joonhyuk Kang

Today's 5G and NextG wireless networks are moving toward using the coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission and reception technique, where a client can be simultaneously served by multiple base stations (BSs) for better communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haiyun Liu , Jiahao Xue , Jie Xu , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

Heterogeneity in federated learning (FL) is a critical and challenging aspect that significantly impacts model performance and convergence. In this paper, we propose a novel framework by formulating heterogeneous FL as a hierarchical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Yuyang Qiu , Kibaek Kim , Farzad Yousefian

Deep learning is a key approach for the environment perception function of Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) with autonomous vehicles and smart traffic infrastructure. In today's C-ITS, smart traffic participants are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Rui Song , Liguo Zhou , Venkatnarayanan Lakshminarasimhan , Andreas Festag , Alois Knoll

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed training with private client data, but its convergence is hindered by system heterogeneity under realistic communication scenarios. Most FL schemes addressing system heterogeneity utilize global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Keumseo Ryum , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

In order to learn quickly with few samples, meta-learning utilizes prior knowledge learned from previous tasks. However, a critical challenge in meta-learning is task uncertainty and heterogeneity, which can not be handled via globally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Huaxiu Yao , Ying Wei , Junzhou Huang , Zhenhui Li

Federated Learning (FL) recently emerges as a paradigm to train a global machine learning model across distributed clients without sharing raw data. Knowledge Graph (KG) embedding represents KGs in a continuous vector space, serving as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Xiangrong Zhu , Guangyao Li , Wei Hu

Most personalised federated learning (FL) approaches assume that raw data of all clients are defined in a common subspace i.e. all clients store their data according to the same schema. For real-world applications, this assumption is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Alain Rakotomamonjy , Maxime Vono , Hamlet Jesse Medina Ruiz , Liva Ralaivola

Personalized federated learning (FL) aims to train model(s) that can perform well for individual clients that are highly data and system heterogeneous. Most work in personalized FL, however, assumes using the same model architecture at all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Yae Jee Cho , Jianyu Wang , Tarun Chiruvolu , Gauri Joshi

In recent advancements in machine learning, federated learning allows a network of distributed clients to collaboratively develop a global model without needing to share their local data. This technique aims to safeguard privacy, countering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Davide Domini , Gianluca Aguzzi , Nicolas Farabegoli , Mirko Viroli , Lukas Esterle

Federated learning (FL) is a rapidly growing privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning paradigm. In practical FL applications, local data from each data silo reflect local usage patterns. Therefore, there exists heterogeneity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shenglai Zeng , Zonghang Li , Hongfang Yu , Yihong He , Zenglin Xu , Dusit Niyato , Han Yu

In real-world applications, Federated Learning (FL) meets two challenges: (1) scalability, especially when applied to massive IoT networks; and (2) how to be robust against an environment with heterogeneous data. Realizing the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Minh-Duong Nguyen , Quoc-Viet Pham , Dinh Thai Hoang , Long Tran-Thanh , Diep N. Nguyen , Won-Joo Hwang

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 is one of the most challenging issues in federated learning, which motivates a variety of approaches to learn personalized models for participating clients. One such approach in deep neural networks based tasks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jian Xu , Xinyi Tong , Shao-Lun Huang

Almost all existing hierarchical federated learning (FL) models are limited to two aggregation layers, restricting scalability and flexibility in complex, large-scale networks. In this work, we propose a Multi-Layer Hierarchical Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Carlo Fischione

We consider the problem of personalized federated learning when there are known cluster structures within users. An intuitive approach would be to regularize the parameters so that users in the same cluster share similar model weights. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Boxiang Lyu , Filip Hanzely , Mladen Kolar