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Federated learning has emerged as a popular technique for distributing machine learning (ML) model training across the wireless edge. In this paper, we propose two timescale hybrid federated learning (TT-HF), a semi-decentralized learning…

In this paper, we investigate the problem of decentralized federated learning (DFL) in Internet of things (IoT) systems, where a number of IoT clients train models collectively for a common task without sharing their private training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Chengxi Li , Gang Li , Pramod K. Varshney

To address the communication burden and privacy concerns associated with the centralized server in Federated Learning (FL), Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has emerged, which discards the server with a peer-to-peer (P2P)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Qinglun Li , Miao Zhang , Nan Yin , Quanjun Yin , Li Shen

Federated learning (FL) has been proposed to protect data privacy and virtually assemble the isolated data silos by cooperatively training models among organizations without breaching privacy and security. However, FL faces heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Dashan Gao , Xin Yao , Qiang Yang

We present ALIGN-FL, a novel approach to distributed learning that addresses the challenge of learning from highly disjoint data distributions through selective sharing of generative components. Instead of exchanging full model parameters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mayank Gulati , Benedikt Groß , Gerhard Wunder

Federated Learning is an algorithm suited for training models on decentralized data, but the requirement of a central "server" node is a bottleneck. In this document, we first introduce the notion of Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Zhuofan Zhang , Mi Zhou , Kaicheng Niu , Chaouki Abdallah

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) empowers multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing local data, making it highly applicable in heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) environments. However, intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Xi Chen , Qin Li , Haibin Cai , Ting Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning paradigm to break down data silo. Traditional FL approaches largely rely on gradient-based updates, facing significant issues about heterogeneity, scalability, convergence, and…

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) has witnessed remarkable advancements, enabling the development of innovative machine learning applications that preserve the privacy of training data. However, existing theoretical research in this…

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm where clients collaboratively train a model while keeping their own data private. With an increasing scale of clients and models, FL encounters two key challenges, client drift due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jianhui Sun , Xidong Wu , Heng Huang , Aidong Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine-learning paradigm, in which a global server iteratively averages the model parameters of local users without accessing their data. User heterogeneity has imposed significant challenges to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Zhuangdi Zhu , Junyuan Hong , Jiayu Zhou

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized learning paradigm widely adopted in resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) environments. These devices, typically relying on TinyML models, collaboratively train global models by sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Pouria Arefijamal , Mahdi Ahmadlou , Bardia Safaei , Jörg Henkel

Federated Learning (FL) is a prominent framework that enables training a centralized model while securing user privacy by fusing local, decentralized models. In this setting, one major obstacle is data heterogeneity, i.e., each client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Artur Back de Luca , Guojun Zhang , Xi Chen , Yaoliang Yu

Federated learning (FL) offers privacy-preserving decentralized machine learning, optimizing models at edge clients without sharing private data. Simultaneously, foundation models (FMs) have gained traction in the artificial intelligence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Sixing Yu , J. Pablo Muñoz , Ali Jannesari

The integration of Federated Learning (FL) and Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has been explored to address client heterogeneity, with Federated Multi-Task Learning (FMTL) treating each client as a distinct task. However, most existing research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Chao Feng , Nicolas Fazli Kohler , Zhi Wang , Weijie Niu , Alberto Huertas Celdran , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Much of federated learning (FL) focuses on settings where local dataset statistics remain the same between training and testing. However, this assumption often does not hold in practice due to distribution shifts, motivating the development…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Shahryar Zehtabi , Dong-Jun Han , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated learning is a new framework that protects data privacy and allows multiple devices to cooperate in training machine learning models. Previous studies have proposed multiple approaches to eliminate the challenges posed by non-iid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Shunxin Guo , Hongsong Wang , Shuxia Lin , Xu Yang , Xin Geng

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) realizes cooperative model training among connected clients without relying on a central server, thereby mitigating communication bottlenecks and eliminating the single-point failure issue present in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xinyang Liu , Pengchao Han , Xuan Li , Bo Liu

Federated Learning (FL) marks a transformative approach to distributed model training by combining locally optimized models from various clients into a unified global model. While FL preserves data privacy by eliminating centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Pranab Sahoo , Ashutosh Tripathi , Sriparna Saha , Samrat Mondal