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Federated Learning (FL) is a pioneering approach in distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across multiple clients while retaining data privacy. However, the inherent heterogeneity due to imbalanced resource…

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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

Federated learning (FL) offers a privacy-preserving framework for distributed machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across diverse clients without centralizing sensitive data. However, statistical heterogeneity,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-08 Hengrui Hu , Anai N. Kothari , Anjishnu Banerjee

Federated Averaging, and many federated learning algorithm variants which build upon it, have a limitation: all clients must share the same model architecture. This results in unused modeling capacity on many clients, which limits model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jared Lichtarge , Ehsan Amid , Shankar Kumar , Tien-Ju Yang , Rohan Anil , Rajiv Mathews

As a special type of multimedia data, Lithography Hotspot Detection (LHD) training often requires stronger privacy protection than conventional multimedia data, and federated learning provides a promising potential solution to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yuqi Li , Xingyou Lin , Yanli Li , Kai Zhang , Chuanguang Yang , Zhongliang Guo , Jianping Gou , Tingwen Huang , Yingli Tian

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn in a distributed way, allowing for privacy protection. However, the real-world non-IID data will lead to client drift which degrades the performance of FL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yunlu Yan , Chun-Mei Feng , Mang Ye , Wangmeng Zuo , Ping Li , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Lei Zhu , C. L. Philip Chen

Federated learning enables the creation of a powerful centralized model without compromising data privacy of multiple participants. While successful, it does not incorporate the case where each participant independently designs its own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Daliang Li , Junpu Wang

Substantial efforts have been devoted to alleviating the impact of the long-tailed class distribution in federated learning. In this work, we observe an interesting phenomenon that certain weak classes consistently exist even for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Xiaoyu Gan , Jingbo Jiang , Jingyang Zhu , Xiaomeng Wang , Xizi Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model while keeping local data decentralized. Data heterogeneity (non-IID) across clients has imposed significant challenges to FL, which makes local models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yuting He , Yiqiang Chen , XiaoDong Yang , Hanchao Yu , Yi-Hua Huang , Yang Gu

Social bot detection is of paramount importance to the resilience and security of online social platforms. The state-of-the-art detection models are siloed and have largely overlooked a variety of data characteristics from multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yingguang Yang , Renyu Yang , Hao Peng , Yangyang Li , Tong Li , Yong Liao , Pengyuan Zhou

Recently, innovative model aggregation methods based on knowledge distillation (KD) have been proposed for federated learning (FL). These methods not only improved the robustness of model aggregation over heterogeneous learning environment,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Ho Man Kwan , Shenghui Song

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm that enables the collaborative training of a shared global model across distributed clients while keeping the data decentralized. Recent works on designing systems for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mohak Chadha , Pulkit Khera , Jianfeng Gu , Osama Abboud , Michael Gerndt

With the proliferation of distributed data sources, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key approach to enable collaborative intelligence through decentralized model training while preserving data privacy. However, conventional FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Noorain Mukhtiar , Adnan Mahmood , Quan Z. Sheng

Federated learning has become a promising solution for collaboration among medical institutions. However, data owned by each institution would be highly heterogeneous and the distribution is always non-independent and identical distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Guochen Yan , Luyuan Xie , Xinyi Gao , Wentao Zhang , Qingni Shen , Yuejian Fang , Zhonghai Wu

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized collaborative machine learning (ML) technique. It provides a solution to the issues of isolated data islands and data privacy leakage in industrial ML practices. One major challenge in FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yushan Zhao , Jinyuan He , Donglai Chen , Weijie Luo , Chong Xie , Ri Zhang , Yonghong Chen , Yan Xu

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) is a distributed machine learning paradigm which coordinates multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model via a central server. Sequential Federated Learning (SFL) is a newly-emerging FL training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Haotian Xu , Jinrui Zhou , Xichong Zhang , Mingjun Xiao , He Sun , Yin Xu

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

Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring in Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) networks is constrained by strict data-sharing regulations and privacy concerns. Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning by keeping raw ECG data on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zixuan Shu , Tiancheng Cao , Hen-Wei Huang

In federated learning, a strong global model is collaboratively learned by aggregating clients' locally trained models. Although this precludes the need to access clients' data directly, the global model's convergence often suffers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Gihun Lee , Minchan Jeong , Yongjin Shin , Sangmin Bae , Se-Young Yun