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Federated learning (FL) is a challenging setting for optimization due to the heterogeneity of the data across different clients which gives rise to the client drift phenomenon. In fact, obtaining an algorithm for FL which is uniformly…

Federated Learning allows training of data stored in distributed devices without the need for centralizing training data, thereby maintaining data privacy. Addressing the ability to handle data heterogeneity (non-identical and independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Pravin Chandran , Raghavendra Bhat , Avinash Chakravarthi , Srikanth Chandar

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that learns a shared model across decentralized clients. It can alleviate privacy concerns of personal re-identification, an important computer vision task. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Weiming Zhuang , Yonggang Wen , Xuesen Zhang , Xin Gan , Daiying Yin , Dongzhan Zhou , Shuai Zhang , Shuai Yi

The federated learning paradigm has motivated the development of methods for aggregating multiple client updates into a global server model, without sharing client data. Many federated learning algorithms, including the canonical Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Nikita Dhawan , Nicole Mitchell , Zachary Charles , Zachary Garrett , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

Federated Learning is a distributed learning paradigm with two key challenges that differentiate it from traditional distributed optimization: (1) significant variability in terms of the systems characteristics on each device in the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Tian Li , Anit Kumar Sahu , Manzil Zaheer , Maziar Sanjabi , Ameet Talwalkar , Virginia Smith

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for decentralized machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across diverse clients without sharing raw data. However, traditional FL approaches often face limitations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ali Forootani , Raffaele Iervolino

Federated learning is a form of distributed learning with the key challenge being the non-identically distributed nature of the data in the participating clients. In this paper, we extend federated learning to the setting where multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Neelkamal Bhuyan , Sharayu Moharir

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) offers a promising framework to train quantum models across distributed clients while keeping data strictly local. Due to its simplicity and low communication overhead, Federated Averaging (FedAvg) is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hoang M. Ngo , Quan Nguyen , Wanli Xing , My T. Thai

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralised model training across distributed clients without requiring data centralisation. However, the generalisation performance of the global model is usually degraded by data heterogeneity across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

We consider federated learning (FL), where the training data is distributed across a large number of clients. The standard optimization method in this setting is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which performs multiple local first-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sebastian Bischoff , Stephan Günnemann , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian U. Stich

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm to train a global model across multiple devices without collecting local data. In FL, a server typically selects a subset of clients for each training round to optimize resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Dun Zeng , Zenglin Xu , Yu Pan , Xu Luo , Qifan Wang , Xiaoying Tang

Federated learning enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn a global model by periodically aggregating the clients' models without transferring the local data. However, due to the heterogeneity of the system and data, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Dezhong Yao , Wanning Pan , Yutong Dai , Yao Wan , Xiaofeng Ding , Hai Jin , Zheng Xu , Lichao Sun

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging collaborative machine learning framework where multiple clients train the global model without sharing their own datasets. In FL, the model inconsistency caused by the local data heterogeneity across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Xuming An , Li Shen , Han Hu , Yong Luo

Federated learning (FL) has been a promising approach in the field of medical imaging in recent years. A critical problem in FL, specifically in medical scenarios is to have a more accurate shared model which is robust to noisy and out-of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Yousef Yeganeh , Azade Farshad , Nassir Navab , Shadi Albarqouni

Federated learning (FL) is a promising framework for privacy-preserving collaborative learning, where model training tasks are distributed to clients and only the model updates need to be collected at a server. However, when being deployed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yuchang Sun , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Federated learning is one popular paradigm to train a joint model in a distributed, privacy-preserving environment. But partial annotations pose an obstacle meaning that categories of labels are heterogeneous over clients. We propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Malte Tölle , Fernando Navarro , Sebastian Eble , Ivo Wolf , Bjoern Menze , Sandy Engelhardt

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm that aims to support loosely connected clients in learning a global model collaboratively with the help of a centralized server. The most popular FL algorithm is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Yaoxin Zhuo , Baoxin Li

In the setting of federated optimization, where a global model is aggregated periodically, step asynchronism occurs when participants conduct model training by efficiently utilizing their computational resources. It is well acknowledged…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Feijie Wu , Song Guo , Haozhao Wang , Zhihao Qu , Haobo Zhang , Jie Zhang , Ziming Liu

Hyperparameter selection is critical for stable and efficient convergence of heterogeneous federated learning, where clients differ in computational capabilities, and data distributions are non-IID. Tuning hyperparameters is a manual and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Aayushya Agarwal , Larry Pileggi , Gauri Joshi

Federated learning allows distributed devices to collectively train a model without sharing or disclosing the local dataset with a central server. The global model is optimized by training and averaging the model parameters of all local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 George Pu , Yanlin Zhou , Dapeng Wu , Xiaolin Li