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We consider the distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problem with spectral risk-based uncertainty set and $f$-divergence penalty. This formulation includes common risk-sensitive learning objectives such as regularized condition…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-24 Ronak Mehta , Vincent Roulet , Krishna Pillutla , Zaid Harchaoui

Federated Learning (FL) is a recent development in distributed machine learning that collaboratively trains models without training data leaving client devices, preserving data privacy. In real-world FL, the training set is distributed over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Rui Jin , Siwei Zheng , Jin Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a novel distributed learning framework designed for applications with privacy-sensitive data. Without sharing data, FL trains local models on individual devices and constructs the global model on the server by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Shuaijun Chen , Omid Tavallaie , Michael Henri Hambali , Seid Miad Zandavi , Hamed Haddadi , Nicholas Lane , Song Guo , Albert Y. Zomaya

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a learning method to enable the server to train models over data distributed among various clients. These clients are protective about their data being leaked to the server, any other client, or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Uday Bhaskar , Varul Srivastava , Avyukta Manjunatha Vummintala , Naresh Manwani , Sujit Gujar

Federated Reinforcement Learning (FRL) has been deemed as a promising solution for intelligent decision-making in the era of Artificial Internet of Things. However, existing FRL approaches often entail repeated interactions with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Sheng Yue , Zerui Qin , Xingyuan Hua , Yongheng Deng , Ju Ren

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without data sharing, but its high computational and communication demands strain resource-constrained devices. While existing methods use dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Hong Huang , Hai Yang , Yuan Chen , Jiaxun Ye , Dapeng Wu

In decentralized federated learning (DFL), the presence of abnormal clients, often caused by noisy or poisoned data, can significantly disrupt the learning process and degrade the overall robustness of the model. Previous methods on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Shuyuan Wu , Feifei Wang , Yuan Gao , Rui Wang , Hansheng Wang

Communication on heterogeneous edge networks is a fundamental bottleneck in Federated Learning (FL), restricting both model capacity and user participation. To address this issue, we introduce two novel strategies to reduce communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Sebastian Caldas , Jakub Konečny , H. Brendan McMahan , Ameet Talwalkar

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) provides a framework for training machine learning models that are able to perform well on a collection of related data distributions (the "uncertainty set"). This is done by solving a min-max…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Paul Michel , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Graham Neubig

Distributionally robust offline reinforcement learning (RL), which seeks robust policy training against environment perturbation by modeling dynamics uncertainty, calls for function approximations when facing large state-action spaces.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhishuai Liu , Pan Xu

One underlying assumption of recent federated learning (FL) paradigms is that all local models usually share the same network architecture and size, which becomes impractical for devices with different hardware resources. A scalable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Dezhong Yao , Wanning Pan , Michael J O'Neill , Yutong Dai , Yao Wan , Hai Jin , Lichao Sun

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) captures FL settings where both (i) model updates and (ii) model aggregations are exclusively carried out by the clients without a central server. Existing DFL works have mostly focused on settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shahryar Zehtabi , Dong-Jun Han , Rohit Parasnis , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

Due to the sensitivity of data, Federated Learning (FL) is employed to enable distributed machine learning while safeguarding data privacy and accommodating the requirements of various devices. However, in the context of semi-decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Gangqiang Hu , Jianfeng Lu , Jianmin Han , Shuqin Cao , Jing Liu , Hao Fu

Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human values often involves balancing multiple, conflicting objectives such as helpfulness and harmlessness. Training these models is computationally intensive, and centralizing the process raises…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Fatemeh Nourzad , Amirhossein Roknilamouki , Eylem Ekici , Jia Liu , Ness Shroff

In contemporary rural healthcare settings, the principal challenge in diagnosing brain images is the scarcity of available data, given that most of the existing deep learning models demand extensive training data to optimize their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Rukesh Prajapati , Amr S. El-Wakeel

While traditional Deep Learning (DL) optimization methods treat all training samples equally, Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) adaptively assigns importance weights to different samples. However, a significant gap exists between…

Federated learning (FL) encounters substantial challenges due to heterogeneity, leading to gradient noise, client drift, and partial client participation errors, the last of which is the most pervasive but remains insufficiently addressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 S M Ruhul Kabir Howlader , Xiao Chen , Yifei Xie , Lu Liu

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed model training on edge devices while preserving data privacy. However, clients tend to have non-Independent and Identically Distributed (non-IID) data, which often leads to client-drift, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Fotios Zantalis , Evangelos Zervas , Grigorios Koulouras

Federated learning (FL) is a new paradigm for distributed machine learning that allows a global model to be trained across multiple clients without compromising their privacy. Although FL has demonstrated remarkable success in various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Haolin Wang , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu , Shaojie Tang , Jiaxing Shen

Despite achieving remarkable performance, Federated Learning (FL) encounters two important problems, i.e., low training efficiency and limited computational resources. In this paper, we propose a new FL framework, i.e., FedDUMAP, with three…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ji Liu , Juncheng Jia , Hong Zhang , Yuhui Yun , Leye Wang , Yang Zhou , Huaiyu Dai , Dejing Dou