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This work tackles the challenges of data heterogeneity and communication limitations in decentralized federated learning. We focus on creating a collaboration graph that guides each client in selecting suitable collaborators for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Salma Kharrat , Marco Canini , Samuel Horvath

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm designed to address the challenge of data silos, attracting considerable attention. However, FL encounters persistent issues related to fairness and data privacy. To tackle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinpeng Ling , Jie Fu , Kuncan Wang , Huifa Li , Tong Cheng , Zhili Chen

The prevalent personalized federated learning (PFL) usually pursues a trade-off between personalization and generalization by maintaining a shared global model to guide the training process of local models. However, the sole global model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xueyang Tang , Song Guo , Jingcai Guo

Federated learning aims to collaboratively train models without accessing their client's local private data. The data may be Non-IID for different clients and thus resulting in poor performance. Recently, personalized federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Dui Wang , Li Shen , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Kehua Su , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

The performance of Federated Learning (FL) hinges on the effectiveness of utilizing knowledge from distributed datasets. Traditional FL methods adopt an aggregate-then-adapt framework, where clients update local models based on a global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yuan Wang , Huazhu Fu , Renuga Kanagavelu , Qingsong Wei , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh

Federated Learning(FL) is popular as a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm for generating a single model on decentralized data. However, statistical heterogeneity poses a significant challenge for FL. As a subfield of FL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Keting Yin , Jiayi Mao

Federated Learning (FL) has recently received a lot of attention for large-scale privacy-preserving machine learning. However, high communication overheads due to frequent gradient transmissions decelerate FL. To mitigate the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Milad Khademi Nori , Sangseok Yun , Il-Min Kim

As a privacy-preserving paradigm for training Machine Learning (ML) models, Federated Learning (FL) has received tremendous attention from both industry and academia. In a typical FL scenario, clients exhibit significant heterogeneity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Lei Fu , Huanle Zhang , Ge Gao , Mi Zhang , Xin Liu

Equity in real-world sequential decision problems can be enforced using fairness-aware methods. Therefore, we require algorithms that can make suitable and transparent trade-offs between performance and the desired fairness notions. As the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Alexandra Cimpean , Nicole Orzan , Catholijn Jonker , Pieter Libin , Ann Nowé

Federated learning (FL) is a new distributed learning paradigm, with privacy, utility, and efficiency as its primary pillars. Existing research indicates that it is unlikely to simultaneously attain infinitesimal privacy leakage, utility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Xiaojin Zhang , Anbu Huang , Lixin Fan , Kai Chen , Qiang Yang

Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale distributed training of machine learning models, while still allowing individual nodes to maintain data locally. However, executing FL at scale comes with inherent practical challenges: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hossein Zakerinia , Shayan Talaei , Giorgi Nadiradze , Dan Alistarh

Federated learning (FL) is a promising distributed paradigm, eliminating the need for data sharing but facing challenges from data heterogeneity. Personalized parameter generation through a hypernetwork proves effective, yet existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ziyuan Yang , Zerui Shao , Huijie Huangfu , Hui Yu , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Xiaoxiao Li , Hongming Shan , Yi Zhang

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach to training machine learning models across decentralized data sources while preserving data privacy, particularly in manufacturing and shared production environments. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Tatjana Legler , Vinit Hegiste , Ahmed Anwar , Martin Ruskowski

Federated learning is renowned for its efficacy in distributed model training, ensuring that users, called clients, retain data privacy by not disclosing their data to the central server that orchestrates collaborations. Most previous work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Pouya M. Ghari , Yanning Shen

Personalized federated learning considers learning models unique to each client in a heterogeneous network. The resulting client-specific models have been purported to improve metrics such as accuracy, fairness, and robustness in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Shanshan Wu , Tian Li , Zachary Charles , Yu Xiao , Ziyu Liu , Zheng Xu , Virginia Smith

Due to the curse of statistical heterogeneity across clients, adopting a personalized federated learning method has become an essential choice for the successful deployment of federated learning-based services. Among diverse branches of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Seok-Ju Hahn , Minwoo Jeong , Junghye Lee

Federated active learning (FAL) seeks to reduce annotation cost under privacy constraints, yet its effectiveness degrades in realistic settings with severe global class imbalance and highly heterogeneous clients. We conduct a systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Chen-Chen Zong , Sheng-Jun Huang

Provider exposure fairness is crucial for sustaining a healthy content ecosystem and preventing monopolization in recommender systems. Yet, most existing methods either incorporate fairness constraints during model training, requiring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jingzhi Li , Zhiyong Cheng , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Classical federated learning (FL) enables training machine learning models without sharing data for privacy preservation, but heterogeneous data characteristic degrades the performance of the localized model. Personalized FL (PFL) addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Mingjia Shi , Yuhao Zhou , Kai Wang , Huaizheng Zhang , Shudong Huang , Qing Ye , Jiangcheng Lv

Federated learning ensures the privacy of clients by conducting distributed training on individual client devices and sharing only the model weights with a central server. However, in real-world scenarios, the heterogeneity of data among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jaewon Jang , Bonjun Choi