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Federated learning (FL) has shown remarkable success in cooperatively training deep models, while typically struggling with noisy labels. Advanced works propose to tackle label noise by a re-weighting strategy with a strong assumption,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Yang Lu , Lin Chen , Yonggang Zhang , Yiliang Zhang , Bo Han , Yiu-ming Cheung , Hanzi Wang

Federated learning on clients with noisy labels is a challenging problem, as such clients can infiltrate the global model, impacting the overall generalizability of the system. Existing methods proposed to handle noisy clients assume that a…

Federated Learning (FL) heavily depends on label quality for its performance. However, the label distribution among individual clients is always both noisy and heterogeneous. The high loss incurred by client-specific samples in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xinyuan Ji , Zhaowei Zhu , Wei Xi , Olga Gadyatskaya , Zilong Song , Yong Cai , Yang Liu

Conventional federated learning (FL) heavily depends on high-quality labels, which are often impractical in the real world, leading to the federated label-noise (F-LN) problem. Worse still, the F-LN problem is exacerbated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuxin Tian , Mouxing Yang , Yuhao Zhou , Jian Wang , Qing Ye , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Jiancheng Lv

Federated learning (FL) leverages client-server communications to train global models on decentralized data. However, communication noise or errors can impair model accuracy. To address this problem, we propose a novel FL algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Ehsan Lari , Reza Arablouei , Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Stefan Werner

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) aims to learn multiple task-specific models rather than a single global model across heterogeneous data distributions. Existing PFL approaches typically rely on iterative optimization-such as model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Abdulmoneam Ali , Ahmed Arafa

Federated learning is a communication-efficient training process that alternates between local training at the edge devices and averaging the updated local model at the central server. Nevertheless, it is impractical to achieve a perfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Fan Ang , Li Chen , Nan Zhao , Yunfei Chen , Weidong Wang , F. Richard Yu

Ubiquitous systems with End-Edge-Cloud architecture are increasingly being used in healthcare applications. Federated Learning (FL) is highly useful for such applications, due to silo effect and privacy preserving. Existing FL approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Yiqiang Chen , Xiaodong Yang , Xin Qin , Han Yu , Biao Chen , Zhiqi Shen

Federated learning has gained popularity for distributed learning without aggregating sensitive data from clients. But meanwhile, the distributed and isolated nature of data isolation may be complicated by data quality, making it more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Siqi Liang , Jintao Huang , Junyuan Hong , Dun Zeng , Jiayu Zhou , Zenglin Xu

Smart sensing provides an easier and convenient data-driven mechanism for monitoring and control in the built environment. Data generated in the built environment are privacy sensitive and limited. Federated learning is an emerging paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Rahul Mishra , Hari Prabhat Gupta , Tanima Dutta , Sajal K. Das

Training large-scale Neural Networks requires substantial computational power and energy. Federated Learning enables distributed model training across geospatially distributed data centers, leveraging renewable energy sources to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Patrick Wilhelm , Inese Yilmaz , Odej Kao

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a solution for collaborative medical image classification while preserving data privacy. However, label noise, which arises from inter-institutional data variability, can cause training instability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Mengwen Ye , Yingzi Huangfu , Shujian Gao , Wei Ren , Weifan Liu , Zekuan Yu

Federated Learning (FL) is used to learn machine learning models with data that is partitioned across multiple clients, including resource-constrained edge devices. It is therefore important to devise solutions that are efficient in terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Durga Sivasubramanian , Lokesh Nagalapatti , Rishabh Iyer , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

In the evolving landscape of federated learning (FL), addressing label noise presents unique challenges due to the decentralized and diverse nature of data collection across clients. Traditional centralized learning approaches to mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Taehyeon Kim , Donggyu Kim , Se-Young Yun

Collecting large-scale datasets is crucial for training deep models, annotating the data, however, inevitably yields noisy labels, which poses challenges to deep learning algorithms. Previous efforts tend to mitigate this problem via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on large-scale datasets have exhibited significant performance in image classification. Many large-scale datasets are collected from websites, however they tend to contain inaccurate labels that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Daiki Tanaka , Daiki Ikami , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Recently, federated learning has emerged as a promising approach for training a global model using data from multiple organizations without leaking their raw data. Nevertheless, directly applying federated learning to real-world tasks faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Bingzhe Wu , Zhipeng Liang , Yuxuan Han , Yatao Bian , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang

High utility and rigorous data privacy are of the main goals of a federated learning (FL) system, which learns a model from the data distributed among some clients. The latter has been tried to achieve by using differential privacy in FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Saber Malekmohammadi , Yaoliang Yu , Yang Cao

Feature noise and label noise are ubiquitous in practical scenarios, which pose great challenges for training a robust machine learning model. Most previous approaches usually deal with only a single problem of either feature noise or label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yang Wei , Shuo Chen , Shanshan Ye , Bo Han , Chen Gong

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm based on graph neural networks, enabling secure and collaborative modeling of local graph data among clients. However, label noise can degrade the global model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 De Li , Haodong Qian , Qiyu Li , Zhou Tan , Zemin Gan , Jinyan Wang , Xianxian Li