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Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized devices while preserving data privacy. However, traditional FL suffers from communication overhead, system heterogeneity, and straggler effects. Asynchronous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ali Forootani , Raffaele Iervolino

The paper presents an innovative approach to address the challenges of scalability and reliability in Distributed Federated Learning by leveraging the integration of blockchain technology. The paper focuses on enhancing the trustworthiness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Faijan Ahamad Khan , Mohammed Afaan Shaikh , Amir Jaberzadeh , Jason Geng

Traditional Federated Learning (FL) faces significant challenges in terms of efficiency and accuracy, particularly in heterogeneous environments where clients employ diverse model architectures and have varying computational resources. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiacheng Wang , Hongtao Lv , Lei Liu

We propose a novel consensus protocol based on a hybrid approach, that combines a directed acyclic graph (DAG) and a classical chain of blocks. This architecture allows us to enforce collective block construction, minimising the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Marcin Abram , David Galindo , Daniel Honerkamp , Jonathan Ward , Jin-Mann Wong

The recurrent neural network has been greatly developed for effectively solving time-varying problems corresponding to complex environments. However, limited by the way of centralized processing, the model performance is greatly affected by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Zhihao Hao , Guancheng Wang , Chunwei Tian , Bob Zhang

Federated learning (FL) refers to a distributed machine learning framework involving learning from several decentralized edge clients without sharing local dataset. This distributed strategy prevents data leakage and enables on-device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Taki Hasan Rafi , Faiza Anan Noor , Tahmid Hussain , Dong-Kyu Chae , Zhaohui Yang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for privacy-preserving model training across decentralized devices. However, it faces challenges such as statistical heterogeneity and susceptibility to adversarial attacks, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jialuo He , Wei Chen , Xiaojin Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) has gained increasing interest in recent years as a distributed on-device learning paradigm. However, multiple challenges remain to be addressed for deploying FL in real-world Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Xiaofan Yu , Ludmila Cherkasova , Harsh Vardhan , Quanling Zhao , Emily Ekaireb , Xiyuan Zhang , Arya Mazumdar , Tajana Rosing

Federated learning (FL) is a paradigm where many clients collaboratively train a model under the coordination of a central server, while keeping the training data locally stored. However, heterogeneous data distributions over different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yaqi Sun , Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Yuhan Dong , Zhitao Zhu , Jing Xiao

As edge computing gains prominence in Internet of Things (IoTs), smart cities, and autonomous systems, the demand for real-time machine intelligence with low latency and model reliability continues to grow. Federated Learning (FL) addresses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Farhana Javed , Engin Zeydan , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy , Kapal Dev , Luis Blanco

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed model training from local data collected by users. In distributed systems with constrained resources and potentially high dynamics, e.g., mobile edge networks, the efficiency of FL is an important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Shiqiang Wang , Jake Perazzone , Mingyue Ji , Kevin S. Chan

This paper presents a fully coupled blockchain-assisted federated learning architecture that effectively eliminates single points of failure by decentralizing both the training and aggregation tasks across all participants. Our proposed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Huong Nguyen , Tri Nguyen , Lauri Lovén , Susanna Pirttikangas

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables clients with local data to collaborate in a peer-to-peer manner to train a generalized model. In this paper, we unify two branches of work that have separately solved important challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shahryar Zehtabi , Dong-Jun Han , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher Brinton

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. One central server is not enough, due to…

Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention as it facilitates collaborative machine learning among multiple clients without centralizing their data on a server. FL ensures the privacy of participating clients by locally storing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Huiqiang Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou , Wei Zhao

In this paper, a Federated Learning (FL) simulation platform is introduced. The target scenario is Acoustic Model training based on this platform. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to apply FL techniques to Speech Recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Kenichi Kumatani , Robert Gmyr , Yashesh Gaur , Sefik Emre Eskimez

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative training while ensuring data privacy across distributed edge devices, making it a popular solution for privacy-sensitive applications. However, FL faces significant challenges due to statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Huy Q. Le , Latif U. Khan , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning (FL) has gained significant attention for enabling decentralized training on edge networks without exposing raw data. However, FL models remain susceptible to adversarial attacks and performance degradation in non-IID…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu Qiao , Apurba Adhikary , Huy Q. Le , Eui-Nam Huh , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Due to the sensitivity of data, Federated Learning (FL) is employed to enable distributed machine learning while safeguarding data privacy and accommodating the requirements of various devices. However, in the context of semi-decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Gangqiang Hu , Jianfeng Lu , Jianmin Han , Shuqin Cao , Jing Liu , Hao Fu

Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly influences critical decision-making across sectors. Federated Learning (FL), as a privacy-preserving collaborative AI paradigm, not only enhances data protection but also holds significant promise…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chao Feng , Alberto Huertas Celdran , Pedro Miguel Sanchez Sanchez , Lynn Zumtaugwald , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller