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Federated Learning (FL) has been a pivotal paradigm for collaborative training of machine learning models across distributed datasets. In heterogeneous settings, it has been observed that a single shared FL model can lead to low local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yifan Yang , Ali Payani , Parinaz Naghizadeh

Federated learning (FL) allows agents to jointly train a global model without sharing their local data. However, due to the heterogeneous nature of local data, it is challenging to optimize or even define fairness of the trained global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Wenda Chu , Chulin Xie , Boxin Wang , Linyi Li , Lang Yin , Arash Nourian , Han Zhao , Bo Li

In this work, we quantitatively calibrate the performance of global and local models in federated learning through a multi-criterion optimization-based framework, which we cast as a constrained program. The objective of a device is its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Amrit Singh Bedi , Chen Fan , Alec Koppel , Anit Kumar Sahu , Brian M. Sadler , Furong Huang , Dinesh Manocha

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an important machine learning paradigm where a global model is trained based on the private data from distributed clients. However, most of existing FL algorithms cannot guarantee the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Fengda Zhang , Kun Kuang , Yuxuan Liu , Long Chen , Chao Wu , Fei Wu , Jiaxun Lu , Yunfeng Shao , Jun Xiao

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training while preserving privacy, yet it introduces a critical challenge: the "illusion of fairness''. A global model, usually evaluated on the server, appears fair on average while keeping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xenia Heilmann , Luca Corbucci , Mattia Cerrato , Anna Monreale

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

Achieving fairness across diverse clients in Federated Learning (FL) remains a significant challenge due to the heterogeneity of the data and the inaccessibility of sensitive attributes from clients' private datasets. This study addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Disha Makhija , Xing Han , Joydeep Ghosh , Yejin Kim

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising collaborative and secure paradigm for training a model from decentralized data without compromising privacy. Group fairness and client fairness are two dimensions of fairness that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Cong Su , Guoxian Yu , Jun Wang , Hui Li , Qingzhong Li , Han Yu

Federated Learning is emerging as a privacy-preserving model training approach in distributed edge applications. As such, most edge deployments are heterogeneous in nature i.e., their sensing capabilities and environments vary across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Khotso Selialia , Yasra Chandio , Fatima M. Anwar

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning strategy, developed for settings where training data is owned by distributed devices and cannot be shared. FL circumvents this constraint by carrying out model training in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Maria Hartmann , Grégoire Danoy , Pascal Bouvry

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning framework in which a set of local communities collaboratively learn a shared global model while retaining all training data locally within each community. Two notions of fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Yuying Duan , Yijun Tian , Nitesh Chawla , Michael Lemmon

Ensuring fairness is critical when applying artificial intelligence to high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where predictive models trained on imbalanced and demographically skewed data risk exacerbating existing disparities. Federated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Qiming Wu , Siqi Li , Doudou Zhou , Nan Liu

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a vital paradigm in modern machine learning that enables collaborative training across decentralized data sources without exchanging raw data. This approach not only addresses privacy concerns but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zahra Kharaghani , Ali Dadras , Tommy Löfstedt

In this paper we propose \texttt{GIFAIR-FL}: a framework that imposes \textbf{G}roup and \textbf{I}ndividual \textbf{FAIR}ness to \textbf{F}ederated \textbf{L}earning settings. By adding a regularization term, our algorithm penalizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Xubo Yue , Maher Nouiehed , Raed Al Kontar

As a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) enables all the involved devices to train a global model collaboratively without exposing their local data privacy. However, for non-IID scenarios, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ming Hu , Tian Liu , Zhiwei Ling , Zhihao Yue , Mingsong Chen

Recently, lots of algorithms have been proposed for learning a fair classifier from decentralized data. However, many theoretical and algorithmic questions remain open. First, is federated learning necessary, i.e., can we simply train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yuchen Zeng , Hongxu Chen , Kangwook Lee

Federated Learning (FL) holds great potential for diverse applications owing to its privacy-preserving nature. However, its convergence is often challenged by non-IID data distributions, limiting its effectiveness in real-world deployments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kun Zhai , Yifeng Gao , Difan Zou , Guangnan Ye , Siheng Chen , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

In current deep learning paradigms, local training or the Standalone framework tends to result in overfitting and thus poor generalizability. This problem can be addressed by Distributed or Federated Learning (FL) that leverages a parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Lingjuan Lyu , Xinyi Xu , Qian Wang

In Federated Learning (FL), the clients learn a single global model (FedAvg) through a central aggregator. In this setting, the non-IID distribution of the data across clients restricts the global FL model from delivering good performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Siddharth Divi , Yi-Shan Lin , Habiba Farrukh , Z. Berkay Celik

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative model training among distributed parties without pooling local datasets at a central server. However, the distributed nature of FL poses challenges in training fair federated learning models. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yi Zhou , Naman Goel