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The proliferation of Internet of Things devices and advances in communication technology have unleashed an explosion of personal data, amplifying privacy concerns amid stringent regulations like GDPR and CCPA. Federated Learning offers a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Fan Wan , Yuchen Li , Xueqi Qiu , Rui Sun , Leyuan Zhang , Xingyu Miao , Tianyu Zhang , Haoran Duan , Yang Long

Continual graph learning (CGL) is purposed to continuously update a graph model with graph data being fed in a streaming manner. Since the model easily forgets previously learned knowledge when training with new-coming data, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yilun Liu , Ruihong Qiu , Zi Huang

Efficient continual learning techniques have been a topic of significant research over the last few years. A fundamental problem with such learning is severe degradation of performance on previously learned tasks, known also as catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Tammuz Dubnov , Vishal Thengane

Managing evolving graph data presents substantial challenges in storage and privacy, and training graph neural networks (GNNs) on such data often leads to catastrophic forgetting, impairing performance on earlier tasks. Despite existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yinlin Zhu , Miao Hu , Di Wu

In this paper, we focus on the important yet understudied problem of Continual Federated Learning (CFL), where a server communicates with a set of clients to incrementally learn new concepts over time without sharing or storing any data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shaunak Halbe , James Seale Smith , Junjiao Tian , Zsolt Kira

Federated Learning has been introduced as a new machine learning paradigm enhancing the use of local devices. At a server level, FL regularly aggregates models learned locally on distributed clients to obtain a more general model. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Anastasiia Usmanova , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

Federated learning-based semantic segmentation (FSS) has drawn widespread attention via decentralized training on local clients. However, most FSS models assume categories are fixed in advance, thus heavily undergoing forgetting on old…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiahua Dong , Duzhen Zhang , Yang Cong , Wei Cong , Henghui Ding , Dengxin Dai

Recently, a large number of data sources opened up by informatization intensify the data heterogeneity, the faster speed of data generation and the gradual implementation of data regulations limit the storage time of data. In personalized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Sixing Tan , Xianmin Liu

Exemplar replay has become an effective strategy for mitigating catastrophic forgetting in federated continual learning (FCL) by retaining representative samples from past tasks. Existing studies focus on designing sample-importance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhuang Qi , Ying-Peng Tang , Lei Meng , Guoqing Chao , Lei Wu , Han Yu , Xiangxu Meng

The standard class-incremental continual learning setting assumes a set of tasks seen one after the other in a fixed and predefined order. This is not very realistic in federated learning environments where each client works independently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Donald Shenaj , Marco Toldo , Alberto Rigon , Pietro Zanuttigh

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm that enables collaborative learning across clients without sharing local data, thereby preserving privacy. However, the increasing scale and complexity of modern deep models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Honggu Kang , Seohyeon Cha , Joonhyuk Kang

Given the ability to model more realistic and dynamic problems, Federated Continual Learning (FCL) has been increasingly investigated recently. A well-known problem encountered in this setting is the so-called catastrophic forgetting, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Giuseppe Serra , Florian Buettner

Federated continual learning (FCL) offers an emerging pattern to facilitate the applicability of federated learning (FL) in real-world scenarios, where tasks evolve dynamically and asynchronously across clients, especially in medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiaoming Qi , Jingyang Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Guanyu Yang , Shuo Li , Yueming Jin

Federated learning (FL) is a hot collaborative training framework via aggregating model parameters of decentralized local clients. However, most FL methods unreasonably assume data categories of FL framework are known and fixed in advance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Jiahua Dong , Hongliu Li , Yang Cong , Gan Sun , Yulun Zhang , Luc Van Gool

Continual learning (CL) presents a fundamental challenge in training neural networks on sequential tasks without experiencing catastrophic forgetting. Traditionally, the dominant approach in CL has been gradient-based optimization, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Grzegorz Rypeść

Continual Graph Learning (CGL) enables models to incrementally learn from streaming graph-structured data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Experience replay is a common solution that reuses a subset of past samples during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qiao Yuan , Sheng-Uei Guan , Pin Ni , Tianlun Luo , Ka Lok Man , Prudence Wong , Victor Chang

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is widely used for studying and diagnosing brain disorders, with functional connectivity (FC) matrices providing powerful representations of large-scale neural interactions. However, existing…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-17 Qianyu Chen , Shujian Yu

Federated learning often suffers from slow and unstable convergence due to the heterogeneous characteristics of participating client datasets. Such a tendency is aggravated when the client participation ratio is low since the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Geeho Kim , Jinkyu Kim , Bohyung Han

Federated and Continual Learning have emerged as potential paradigms for the robust and privacy-aware use of Deep Learning in dynamic environments. However, Client Drift and Catastrophic Forgetting are fundamental obstacles to guaranteeing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Niklas Babendererde , Moritz Fuchs , Camila Gonzalez , Yuri Tolkach , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

Federated Prototype Learning (FedPL) has emerged as an effective strategy for handling data heterogeneity in Federated Learning (FL). In FedPL, clients collaboratively construct a set of global feature centers (prototypes), and let local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Xinghao Wu , Jianwei Niu , Xuefeng Liu , Guogang Zhu , Jiayuan Zhang , Shaojie Tang , Wei Chen