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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising method to collaboratively learn from decentralized and heterogeneous data available at different clients without the requirement of data ever leaving the clients. Recent works on FL have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shivam Pal , Aishwarya Gupta , Saqib Sarwar , Piyush Rai

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving and distributed training method using heterogeneous data sets stored at local devices. Federated learning over wireless networks requires aggregating locally computed gradients at a server where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Seunghoon Lee , Chanho Park , Song-Nam Hong , Yonina C. Eldar , Namyoon Lee

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training across multiple distributed clients without disclosing their raw data. Personalized federated learning (pFL) has gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Tiandi Ye , Wenyan Liu , Kai Yao , Lichun Li , Shangchao Su , Cen Chen , Xiang Li , Shan Yin , Ming Gao

Bayesian personalized federated learning (BPFL) addresses challenges in existing personalized FL (PFL). BPFL aims to quantify the uncertainty and heterogeneity within and across clients towards uncertainty representations by addressing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Hui Chen , Hengyu Liu , Longbing Cao , Tiancheng Zhang

To support real-world decision-making, it is crucial for models to be well-calibrated, i.e., to assign reliable confidence estimates to their predictions. Uncertainty quantification is particularly important in personalized federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Boning Zhang , Dongzhu Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Guanchu Wang , Dimitrios Pezaros , Guangxu Zhu

Conventional federated learning (FL) frameworks often suffer from training degradation due to data uncertainty and heterogeneity across local clients. Probabilistic approaches such as Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) can mitigate this issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ratun Rahman , Dinh C. Nguyen

Federated learning (FL) is a widely used and impactful distributed optimization framework that achieves consensus through averaging locally trained models. While effective, this approach may not align well with Bayesian inference, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Nour Jamoussi , Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

A Verbal Autopsy is the record of an interview about the circumstances of an uncertified death. In developing countries, if a death occurs away from health facilities, a field-worker interviews a relative of the deceased about the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Samuel Danso , Eric Atwell , Owen Johnson

Causal inference has recently gained notable attention across various fields like biology, healthcare, and environmental science, especially within explainable artificial intelligence (xAI) systems, for uncovering the causal relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Xiaofeng Xiao , Khawlah Alharbi , Pengyu Zhang , Hantang Qin , Xubo Yue

In cancer research, overall survival and progression free survival are often analyzed with the Cox model. To estimate accurately the parameters in the model, sufficient data and, more importantly, sufficient events need to be observed. In…

Electronic medical records (EMRs) supports the development of machine learning algorithms for predicting disease incidence, patient response to treatment, and other healthcare events. But insofar most algorithms have been centralized,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Li Huang , Dianbo Liu

One of the main challenges of federated learning (FL) is handling non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) client data, which may occur in practice due to unbalanced datasets and use of different data sources across clients.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Peng Wu , Tales Imbiriba , Pau Closas

Federated Bayesian learning offers a principled framework for the definition of collaborative training algorithms that are able to quantify epistemic uncertainty and to produce trustworthy decisions. Upon the completion of collaborative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jinu Gong , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively develop a global model while maintaining data privacy. However, online FL deployment faces challenges due to distribution shifts and evolving test samples. Personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yu Zhou , Bingyan Liu

Accurate estimation of cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMFs), the percentage of deaths attributable to each cause in a population, is essential for global health monitoring. Challenge arises because computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA)…

Federated learning is a popular collaborative learning approach that enables clients to train a global model without sharing their local data. Vertical federated learning (VFL) deals with scenarios in which the data on clients have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jingwei Sun , Ziyue Xu , Dong Yang , Vishwesh Nath , Wenqi Li , Can Zhao , Daguang Xu , Yiran Chen , Holger R. Roth

Federated Learning (FL) since proposed has been applied in many fields, such as credit assessment, medical, etc. Because of the difference in the network or computing resource, the clients may not update their gradients at the same time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Zhicheng Zhou , Hailong Chen , Kunhua Li , Fei Hu , Bingjie Yan , Jieren Cheng , Xuyan Wei , Bernie Liu , Xiulai Li , Fuwen Chen , Yongji Sui

Federated learning faces huge challenges from model overfitting due to the lack of data and statistical diversity among clients. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel personalized federated learning method via Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Xu Zhang , Yinchuan Li , Wenpeng Li , Kaiyang Guo , Yunfeng Shao

Verbal autopsy (VA) algorithms are routinely used to determine individual-level causes of death (COD) in many low-and-middle-income countries, which are then aggregated to derive population-level cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMF),…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-07 Sandipan Pramanik , Scott Zeger , Dianna Blau , Abhirup Datta

Verbal autopsy (VA) is a critical tool for estimating causes of death in resource-limited settings where medical certification is unavailable. This study presents LA-VA, a proof-of-concept pipeline that combines Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yiqun T. Chen , Tyler H. McCormick , Li Liu , Abhirup Datta