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Federated learning (FL) enables a loose set of participating clients to collaboratively learn a global model via coordination by a central server and with no need for data sharing. Existing FL approaches that rely on complex algorithms with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kazim Ergun , Rishikanth Chandrasekaran , Tajana Rosing

There are situations where data relevant to a machine learning problem are distributed among multiple locations that cannot share the data due to regulatory, competitiveness, or privacy reasons. For example, data present in users'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Dimitris Stripelis , Jose Luis Ambite

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for decentralized training of machine learning models on distributed clients, without revealing the data to the central server. The learning scheme may be horizontal, vertical or hybrid (both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Fanfei Meng , Lele Zhang , Yu Chen , Yuxin Wang

Federated Learning (FL) preserves privacy by distributing training across devices. However, using DNNs is computationally intensive at the low-powered edge during inference. Edge deployment demands models that simultaneously optimize memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Nitin Priyadarshini Shankar , Soham Lahiri , Sheetal Kalyani , Saurav Prakash

Federated prototype learning (FPL), as a solution to heterogeneous federated learning (HFL), effectively alleviates the challenges of data and model heterogeneity.However, existing FPL methods fail to balance the fidelity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ningzhi Gao , Siquan Huang , Leyu Shi , Ying Gao

Federated learning, as a promising distributed learning paradigm, enables collaborative training of a global model across multiple network edge clients without the need for central data collecting. However, the heterogeneity of edge data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xingyan Chen , Tian Du , Mu Wang , Tiancheng Gu , Yu Zhao , Gang Kou , Changqiao Xu , Dapeng Oliver Wu

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

There is an increasing interest in a fast-growing machine learning technique called Federated Learning, in which the model training is distributed over mobile user equipments (UEs), exploiting UEs' local computation and training data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Canh T. Dinh , Nguyen H. Tran , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Choong Seon Hong , Wei Bao , Albert Y. Zomaya , Vincent Gramoli

Heterogeneous Bayesian decentralized data fusion captures the set of problems in which two robots must combine two probability density functions over non-equal, but overlapping sets of random variables. In the context of multi-robot dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Ofer Dagan , Tycho L. Cinquini , Nisar R. Ahmed

Federated Reinforcement Learning (FedRL) improves sample efficiency while preserving privacy; however, most existing studies assume homogeneous agents, limiting its applicability in real-world scenarios. This paper investigates FedRL in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenzheng Jiang , Ji Wang , Xiongtao Zhang , Weidong Bao , Cheston Tan , Flint Xiaofeng Fan

As a distributed learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) faces the communication bottleneck issue due to many rounds of model synchronization and aggregation. Heterogeneous data further deteriorates the situation by causing slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zhijie Xie , S. H. Song

Federated learning shows promise as a privacy-preserving collaborative learning technique. Existing heterogeneous federated learning mainly focuses on skewing the label distribution across clients. However, most approaches suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Shunxin Guo , Hongsong Wang , Xin Geng

Federated learning (FL) coordinates multiple devices to collaboratively train a shared model while preserving data privacy. However, large memory footprint and high energy consumption during the training process excludes the low-end devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Shichen Zhan , Yebo Wu , Chunlin Tian , Yan Zhao , Li Li

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving the privacy of raw data. A challenge in this framework is the fair and efficient valuation of data, which is crucial for incentivizing clients to contribute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Wenqian Li , Shuran Fu , Fengrui Zhang , Yan Pang

We study a federated classification problem over a network of multiple clients and a central server, in which each client's local data remains private and is subject to uncertainty in both the features and labels. To address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Michael Ibrahim , Heraldo Rozas , Nagi Gebraeel , Weijun Xie

Federated Learning (FL) empowers multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing local data, making it highly applicable in heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) environments. However, intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Xi Chen , Qin Li , Haibin Cai , Ting Wang

Heterogeneous Federated Learning (HFL) has gained significant attention for its capacity to handle both model and data heterogeneity across clients. Prototype-based HFL methods emerge as a promising solution to address statistical and model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Fatema Siddika , Md Anwar Hossen , Wensheng Zhang , Anuj Sharma , Juan Pablo Muñoz , Ali Jannesari

In practical federated learning scenarios, the participating devices may have different bitwidths for computation and memory storage by design. However, despite the progress made in device-heterogeneous federated learning scenarios, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Jaehong Yoon , Geon Park , Wonyong Jeong , Sung Ju Hwang

Federated learning forms a global model using data collected from a federation agent. This type of learning has two main challenges: the agents generally don't collect data over the same distribution, and the agents have limited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Maria Peifer , Alejandro Ribeiro

The space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) has become a crucial research direction in future wireless communications due to its ubiquitous coverage, rapid and flexible deployment, and multi-layer cooperation capabilities. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chong Huang , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Jonathon A. Chambers , Wei Huang