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Federated learning (FL) facilitates edge devices to cooperatively train a global shared model while maintaining the training data locally and privately. However, a common assumption in FL requires the participating edge devices to have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yun-Hin Chan , Zhihan Jiang , Jing Deng , Edith C. -H. Ngai

Concerned with user data privacy, this paper presents a new federated learning (FL) method that trains machine learning models on edge devices without accessing sensitive data. Traditional FL methods, although privacy-protective, fail to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Duy Phuong Nguyen , Sixing Yu , J. Pablo Muñoz , Ali Jannesari

Personalized Federated Learning aims at addressing the challenges of non-IID data in collaborative model training. However, existing methods struggle to balance personalization and generalization, often oversimplifying client similarities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Mattia Giovanni Campana , Franca Delmastro

Federated fine-tuning (FedFT) of large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising solution for adapting models to distributed data environments while ensuring data privacy. Existing FedFT methods predominantly utilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yujia Huo , Jianchun Liu , Hongli Xu , Zhenguo Ma , Shilong Wang , Liusheng Huang

We study a new form of federated learning where the clients train personalized local models and make predictions jointly with the server-side shared model. Using this new federated learning framework, the complexity of the central shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Alekh Agarwal , John Langford , Chen-Yu Wei

Federated learning (FL) enables resource-constrained edge nodes to collaboratively learn a global model under the orchestration of a central server while keeping privacy-sensitive data locally. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Hongda Wu , Ping Wang

This work considers the category distribution heterogeneity in federated learning. This issue is due to biased labeling preferences at multiple clients and is a typical setting of data heterogeneity. To alleviate this issue, most previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Rui Ye , Mingkai Xu , Jianyu Wang , Chenxin Xu , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that maximizes the potential of data-driven models for edge devices without sharing their raw data. However, devices often have non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Zijian Li , Zehong Lin , Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Data privacy and silos are nontrivial and greatly challenging in many real-world applications. Federated learning is a decentralized approach to training models across multiple local clients without the exchange of raw data from client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Xin Yang , Hao Yu , Xin Gao , Hao Wang , Junbo Zhang , Tianrui Li

Federated learning is proposed as a machine learning setting to enable distributed edge devices, such as mobile phones, to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping all the training data on device, which can not only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Lifeng Liu , Fengda Zhang , Jun Xiao , Chao Wu

Federated learning has attracted significant attention as a privacy-preserving framework for training personalised models on multi-source heterogeneous data. However, most existing approaches are unable to handle scenarios where subgroup…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-14 Changxin Yang , Zhongyi Zhu , Heng Lian

The statistical heterogeneity of the non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data in local clients significantly limits the performance of federated learning. Previous attempts like FedProx, SCAFFOLD, MOON, FedNova and FedDyn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ziqing Fan , Yanfeng Wang , Jiangchao Yao , Lingjuan Lyu , Ya Zhang , Qi Tian

Deep learning models often suffer from forgetting previously learned information when trained on new data. This problem is exacerbated in federated learning (FL), where the data is distributed and can change independently for each user.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Sara Babakniya , Zalan Fabian , Chaoyang He , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr

Federated learning is essential for enabling collaborative model training across decentralized data sources while preserving data privacy and security. This approach mitigates the risks associated with centralized data collection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Daoyuan Li , Zuyuan Yang , Shengli Xie

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative training of machine learning models over decentralized devices without exposing their local data. One of the major challenges in FL is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Md Sirajul Islam , Simin Javaherian , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng

Federated learning is a paradigm that enables local devices to jointly train a server model while keeping the data decentralized and private. In federated learning, since local data are collected by clients, it is hardly guaranteed that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Seunghan Yang , Hyoungseob Park , Junyoung Byun , Changick Kim

Federated Learning is a distributed machine-learning environment that allows clients to learn collaboratively without sharing private data. This is accomplished by exchanging parameters. However, the differences in data distributions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Kuang Hangdong , Mi Bo

Federated learning is a decentralized and privacy-preserving technique that enables multiple clients to collaborate with a server to learn a global model without exposing their private data. However, the presence of statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Shiyu Liu , Shaogao Lv , Dun Zeng , Zenglin Xu , Hui Wang , Yue Yu

Cross-Project Defect Prediction (CPDP) poses a non-trivial challenge to construct a reliable defect predictor by leveraging data from other projects, particularly when data owners are concerned about data privacy. In recent years, Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yuying Wang , Yichen Li , Haozhao Wang , Lei Zhao , Xiaofang Zhang

We consider Decision-Focused Federated Learning (DFFL), a predict-then-optimize setting in which multiple clients collaboratively train predictive models for downstream linear optimization problems without exchanging raw data. Besides the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Konstantinos Ziliaskopoulos , Alexander Vinel