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Federated Learning (FL) marks a transformative approach to distributed model training by combining locally optimized models from various clients into a unified global model. While FL preserves data privacy by eliminating centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Pranab Sahoo , Ashutosh Tripathi , Sriparna Saha , Samrat Mondal

Federated learning provides a privacy-preserving manner to collaboratively train models on data distributed over multiple local clients via the coordination of a global server. In this paper, we focus on label distribution skew in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jianghu Lu , Shikun Li , Kexin Bao , Pengju Wang , Zhenxing Qian , Shiming Ge

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to distill the knowledge of a cumbersome teacher model into a lightweight student model. Its success is generally attributed to the privileged information on similarities among categories provided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Li Yuan , Francis E. H. Tay , Guilin Li , Tao Wang , Jiashi Feng

Heterogeneity of data distributed across clients limits the performance of global models trained through federated learning, especially in the settings with highly imbalanced class distributions of local datasets. In recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Huancheng Chen , Johnny , Wang , Haris Vikalo

Most current federated learning frameworks are modeled as static processes, ignoring the dynamic characteristics of the learning system. Under the limited communication budget of the central server, the flexible model architecture of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yiting Zheng , Bohan Lin , Jinqian Chen , Jihua Zhu

Federated Learning (FL) enables the training of Deep Learning models without centrally collecting possibly sensitive raw data. The most used algorithms for FL are parameter-averaging based schemes (e.g., Federated Averaging) that, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Alessio Mora , Irene Tenison , Paolo Bellavista , Irina Rish

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm that enables clients scattered across the world to cooperatively learn a global model without divulging confidential data. However, FL faces a significant challenge in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Xidong Wu , Wan-Yi Lin , Devin Willmott , Filipe Condessa , Yufei Huang , Zhenzhen Li , Madan Ravi Ganesh

Recent recommender systems have shown remarkable performance by using an ensemble of heterogeneous models. However, it is exceedingly costly because it requires resources and inference latency proportional to the number of models, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 SeongKu Kang , Wonbin Kweon , Dongha Lee , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie , Hwanjo Yu

Neural networks can learn spurious correlations in the data, often leading to performance degradation for underrepresented subgroups. Studies have demonstrated that the disparity is amplified when knowledge is distilled from a complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Patrik Kenfack , Ulrich Aïvodji , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective model compression technique that transfers knowledge from a high-performance teacher to a lightweight student, reducing computational and storage costs while maintaining competitive accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Fengming Yu , Haiwei Pan , Kejia Zhang , Jian Guan , Haiying Jiang

In this paper, we explore a new knowledge-amalgamation problem, termed Federated Selective Aggregation (FedSA). The goal of FedSA is to train a student model for a new task with the help of several decentralized teachers, whose pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Donglin Xie , Ruonan Yu , Gongfan Fang , Jie Song , Zunlei Feng , Xinchao Wang , Li Sun , Mingli Song

Knowledge distillation is a common technique for improving the performance of a shallow student network by transferring information from a teacher network, which in general, is comparatively large and deep. These teacher networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ishan Mishra , Sethu Vamsi Krishna , Deepak Mishra

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed and privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that coordinates multiple clients to train a model while keeping the raw data localized. However, this traditional FL poses some challenges, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Laiqiao Qin , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

Federated Knowledge Graph Embedding (FKGE) aims to facilitate collaborative learning of entity and relation embeddings from distributed Knowledge Graphs (KGs) across multiple clients, while preserving data privacy. Training FKGE models with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xiaoxiong Zhang , Zhiwei Zeng , Xin Zhou , Chunyan Miao

Knowledge distillation aims to learn a lightweight student network from a pre-trained teacher network. In practice, existing knowledge distillation methods are usually infeasible when the original training data is unavailable due to some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Jialiang Tang , Shuo Chen , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Chen Gong

Does Knowledge Distillation (KD) really work? Conventional wisdom viewed it as a knowledge transfer procedure where a perfect mimicry of the student to its teacher is desired. However, paradoxical studies indicate that closely replicating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Chenqi Guo , Shiwei Zhong , Xiaofeng Liu , Qianli Feng , Yinglong Ma

Federated Learning has gained popularity among medical institutions since it enables collaborative training between clients (e.g., hospitals) without aggregating data. However, due to the high cost associated with creating annotations,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Xiaoxiao He , Chaowei Tan , Bo Liu , Liping Si , Weiwu Yao , Liang Zhao , Di Liu , Qilong Zhangli , Qi Chang , Kang Li , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Knowledge distillation aims to compress a powerful yet cumbersome teacher model into a lightweight student model without much sacrifice of performance. For this purpose, various approaches have been proposed over the past few years,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Defang Chen , Jian-Ping Mei , Hailin Zhang , Can Wang , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge in a teacher-student framework, by providing the predictions of the teacher network to the student network in the training stage to help the student network generalize better. It can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 SeongUk Park , Nojun Kwak

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a model-agnostic technique to improve model quality while having a fixed capacity budget. It is a commonly used technique for model compression, where a larger capacity teacher model with better quality is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiaxi Tang , Rakesh Shivanna , Zhe Zhao , Dong Lin , Anima Singh , Ed H. Chi , Sagar Jain