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Federated learning enables multiple medical institutions to train a global model without sharing data, yet feature heterogeneity from diverse scanners or protocols remains a major challenge. Many existing works attempt to address this issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Xingyue Zhao , Wenke Huang , Xingguang Wang , Haoyu Zhao , Linghao Zhuang , Anwen Jiang , Guancheng Wan , Mang Ye

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) enables collaborative model training without centralizing data. However, real-world deployments must simultaneously address statistical heterogeneity across client data (non-IID), system heterogeneity in device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chaimaa Medjadji , Sylvain Kubler , Yves Le Traon , Guilain Leduc , Sadi Alawadi , Feras M. Awaysheh

In recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has gained relevance in training collaborative models without sharing sensitive data. Since its birth, Centralized FL (CFL) has been the most common approach in the literature, where a central entity…

Federated learning (FL) emerges as a promising approach to empower vehicular networks, composed by intelligent connected vehicles equipped with advanced sensing, computing, and communication capabilities. While previous studies have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Dongyu Chen , Tao Deng , Juncheng Jia , Siwei Feng , Di Yuan

We study causal discovery from observational data in linear Gaussian systems affected by \emph{mixed latent confounding}, where some unobserved factors act broadly across many variables while others influence only small subsets. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Amir Asiaee , Samhita Pal , James O'quinn , James P. Long

In heterogeneous scenarios where the data distribution amongst the Federated Learning (FL) participants is Non-Independent and Identically distributed (Non-IID), FL suffers from the well known problem of data heterogeneity. This leads the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Fatima Abacha , Sin G. Teo , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Mustafa A. Mustafa

Federated learning (FL), as a powerful learning paradigm, trains a shared model by aggregating model updates from distributed clients. However, the decoupling of model learning from local data makes FL highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xiyue Zhang , Xiaoyong Xue , Xiaoning Du , Xiaofei Xie , Yang Liu , Meng Sun

A persistent structural weakness in deep clustering is the disconnect between feature learning and cluster assignment. Most architectures invoke an external clustering step, typically k-means, to produce pseudo-labels that guide training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Giansalvo Cirrincione

Federated learning (FL) triggers intra-client and inter-client class imbalance, with the latter compared to the former leading to biased client updates and thus deteriorating the distributed models. Such a bias is exacerbated during the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Chenguang Xiao , Zheming Zuo , Shuo Wang

The emerging machine learning paradigm of decentralized federated learning (DFL) has the promise of greatly boosting the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) by directly learning across distributed agents without centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yudi Huang , Tingyang Sun , Ting He

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent method for collaboratively training machine learning models using local data from edge devices, all while keeping data decentralized. However, accounting for the quality of data contributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Haoyuan Li , Mathias Funk , Nezihe Merve Gürel , Aaqib Saeed

The conventional federated learning (FedL) architecture distributes machine learning (ML) across worker devices by having them train local models that are periodically aggregated by a server. FedL ignores two important characteristics of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Su Wang , Roberto Morabito , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Mung Chiang , Christopher G. Brinton

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) enables distributed training on edge devices, allowing models to collaboratively learn global patterns while tailoring their parameters to better fit each client's local data, all while preserving data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sannara Ek , Kaile Wang , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , Jiannong Cao

Federated learning (FL) enables on-device training over distributed networks consisting of a massive amount of modern smart devices, such as smartphones and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. However, the leading optimization algorithm in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xin Yao , Tianchi Huang , Chenglei Wu , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Lifeng Sun

Federated learning is an important privacy-preserving multi-party learning paradigm, involving collaborative learning with others and local updating on private data. Model heterogeneity and catastrophic forgetting are two crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Wenke Huang , Mang Ye , Zekun Shi , Bo Du

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm enabling collaborative model training on decentralized devices without exposing their local data. A key challenge in FL is the uneven data distribution across…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Md Sirajul Islam , Simin Javaherian , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training of a global model in the centralized server with data from multiple parties while preserving privacy. However, data heterogeneity can significantly degrade the performance of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yong Zhang , Feng Liang , Guanghu Yuan , Min Yang , Chengming Li , Xiping Hu

Intelligent fault diagnosis (IFD) plays a crucial role in ensuring the safe operation of industrial machinery and improving production efficiency. However, traditional supervised deep learning methods require a large amount of training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yajiao Dai , Jun Li , Zhen Mei , Yiyang Ni , Shi Jin , Zengxiang Li , Sheng Guo , Wei Xiang

Federated learning offers a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving traffic prediction, yet its performance is often challenged by the non-identically and independently distributed (non-IID) nature of decentralized traffic data. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chengyang Zhou , Zijian Zhang , Chunxu Zhang , Hao Miao , Yulin Zhang , Kedi Lyu , Juncheng Hu