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We focus on the problem of Personalized Federated Continual Learning (PFCL): a group of distributed clients, each with a sequence of local tasks on arbitrary data distributions, collaborate through a central server to train a personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Jin Xie , Chenqing Zhu , Songze Li

Data heterogeneity is a significant challenge in modern federated learning (FL) as it creates variance in local model updates, causing the aggregated global model to shift away from the true global optimum. Partial client participation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mrinmay Sen , Subhrajit Nag

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

Federated learning (FL) is an important technique for learning models from decentralized data in a privacy-preserving way. Existing FL methods usually uniformly sample clients for local model learning in each round. However, different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Tao Qi , Fangzhao Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

As a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) has attracted increasing attention to deal with data silo problems without compromising user privacy. By adopting the classic one-to-multi training scheme (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ming Hu , Peiheng Zhou , Zhihao Yue , Zhiwei Ling , Yihao Huang , Anran Li , Yang Liu , Xiang Lian , Mingsong Chen

Federated learning, an emerging machine learning paradigm, enables clients to collaboratively train a model without exchanging local data. Clients participating in the training process significantly impact the convergence rate, learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Fares Fourati , Salma Kharrat , Vaneet Aggarwal , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Marco Canini

While federated learning (FL) enables fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) without compromising data privacy, the substantial size of an LLM renders on-device training impractical for resource-constrained clients, such as mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Zihan Fang , Zheng Lin , Senkang Hu , Yanan Ma , Yihang Tao , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang

Personalised federated learning (FL) aims at collaboratively learning a machine learning model taylored for each client. Albeit promising advances have been made in this direction, most of existing approaches works do not allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Nikita Kotelevskii , Maxime Vono , Eric Moulines , Alain Durmus

Personalized federated learning (PFL) aims to harness the collective wisdom of clients' data while building personalized models tailored to individual clients' data distributions. Existing works offer personalization primarily to clients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Hong-You Chen , Jike Zhong , Mingda Zhang , Xuhui Jia , Hang Qi , Boqing Gong , Wei-Lun Chao , Li Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without centralizing data. However, existing approaches such as Federated Averaging (FedAvg) often perform poorly with heterogeneous data distributions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Gyuejeong Lee , Daeyoung Choi

Multimodal Federated Learning (MFL) enables clients with heterogeneous data modalities to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data, offering a privacy-preserving framework that leverages complementary cross-modal information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Min Tan , Junchao Ma , Yinfu Feng , Jiajun Ding , Wenwen Pan , Tingting Han , Qian Zheng , Zhenzhong Kuang , Zhou Yu

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a pivotal framework for the development of effective global models (global FL) or personalized models (personalized FL) across clients with heterogeneous, non-iid data distribution. A key challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Seongyoon Kim , Minchan Jeong , Sungnyun Kim , Sungwoo Cho , Sumyeong Ahn , Se-Young Yun

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique used to collaboratively train a global machine learning model while keeping the data localized on the user devices. The main obstacle to FL's practical implementation is the Non-Independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Hiep Nguyen , Lam Phan , Harikrishna Warrier , Yogesh Gupta

Federated learning allows clients to collaboratively train models on datasets that are acquired in different locations and that cannot be exchanged because of their size or regulations. Such collected data is increasingly non-independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Federico Lucchetti , Jérémie Decouchant , Maria Fernandes , Lydia Y. Chen , Marcus Völp

Federated Learning (FL) aims to learn a single global model that enables the central server to help the model training in local clients without accessing their local data. The key challenge of FL is the heterogeneity of local data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Sicong Liang , Junchao Tian , Shujun Yang , Yu Zhang

Federated learning (FL) has proven essential for privacy-preserving, collaborative training across distributed clients. Our prior work, TransFed, introduced a robust transformer-based FL framework that leverages a learn-to-adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Tajamul Ashraf , Iqra Altaf Gillani

Current state-of-the-art deep learning based face recognition (FR) models require a large number of face identities for central training. However, due to the growing privacy awareness, it is prohibited to access the face images on user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Chih-Ting Liu , Chien-Yi Wang , Shao-Yi Chien , Shang-Hong Lai

Federated learning (FL) holds great potential for medical applications. However, statistical heterogeneity across healthcare institutions poses a major challenge for FL, as the global model struggles both to generalize across unseen patient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Zoe Fowler , Ghassan AlRegib

Federated learning has received great attention for its capability to train a large-scale model in a decentralized manner without needing to access user data directly. It helps protect the users' private data from centralized collecting.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Guodong Long , Ming Xie , Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Xianzhi Wang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Federated learning is a form of distributed learning with the key challenge being the non-identically distributed nature of the data in the participating clients. In this paper, we extend federated learning to the setting where multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Neelkamal Bhuyan , Sharayu Moharir