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Conventional federated learning (FL) heavily depends on high-quality labels, which are often impractical in the real world, leading to the federated label-noise (F-LN) problem. Worse still, the F-LN problem is exacerbated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuxin Tian , Mouxing Yang , Yuhao Zhou , Jian Wang , Qing Ye , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Jiancheng Lv

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent method for collaboratively training machine learning models using local data from edge devices, all while keeping data decentralized. However, accounting for the quality of data contributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Haoyuan Li , Mathias Funk , Nezihe Merve Gürel , Aaqib Saeed

Data heterogeneity is an inherent challenge that hinders the performance of federated learning (FL). Recent studies have identified the biased classifiers of local models as the key bottleneck. Previous attempts have used classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zexi Li , Xinyi Shang , Rui He , Tao Lin , Chao Wu

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralised model training across distributed clients without requiring data centralisation. However, the generalisation performance of the global model is usually degraded by data heterogeneity across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging learning scheme that allows different distributed clients to train deep neural networks together without data sharing. Neural networks have become popular due to their unprecedented success. To the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Baihe Huang , Xiaoxiao Li , Zhao Song , Xin Yang

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized machine learning while preserving data privacy, making it ideal for sensitive applications where data cannot be shared. While FL has been widely studied in supervised contexts, its application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Mirko Nardi , Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella

Federated learning (FL) under data heterogeneity remains challenging: existing methods either ignore client differences (FedAvg), require costly cluster discovery (IFCA), or maintain per-client models (Ditto). All degrade when data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Rickard Brännvall

Federated learning (FL) is a popular solution for distributed machine learning (ML). While FL has traditionally been studied for supervised ML tasks, in many applications, it is impractical to assume availability of labeled data across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Satyavrat Wagle , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Naji Khosravan , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm where clients collaboratively train a model while keeping their own data private. With an increasing scale of clients and models, FL encounters two key challenges, client drift due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jianhui Sun , Xidong Wu , Heng Huang , Aidong Zhang

Federated learning (FL) has been recognized as one of the most promising solutions for distributed machine learning (ML). In most of the current literature, FL has been studied for supervised ML tasks, in which edge devices collect labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Satyavrat Wagle , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Naji Khosravan , Mung Chiang , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated Learning (FL) offers a privacy-preserving framework for training audio classification (AC) models across decentralized clients without sharing raw data. However, Federated Audio Classification (FedAC) faces three major challenges:…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jun Bai , Rajib Rana , Di Wu , Youyang Qu , Xiaohui Tao , Ji Zhang , Carlos Busso , Shivakumara Palaiahnakote

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm enabling collaborative model training on decentralized devices without exposing their local data. A key challenge in FL is the uneven data distribution across…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Md Sirajul Islam , Simin Javaherian , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng

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), a popular decentralized and privacy-preserving machine learning (FL) framework, has received extensive research attention in recent years. The majority of existing works focus on supervised learning (SL) problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Jieming Bian , Zhu Fu , Jie Xu

Federated Learning (FL) enables joint training across distributed clients using their local data privately. Federated Multi-Task Learning (FMTL) builds on FL to handle multiple tasks, assuming model congruity that identical model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Yuxiang Lu , Suizhi Huang , Yuwen Yang , Shalayiding Sirejiding , Yue Ding , Hongtao Lu

Traditional federated optimization methods perform poorly with heterogeneous data (ie, accuracy reduction), especially for highly skewed data. In this paper, we investigate the label distribution skew in FL, where the distribution of labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jie Zhang , Zhiqi Li , Bo Li , Jianghe Xu , Shuang Wu , Shouhong Ding , Chao Wu

One of the challenges in federated learning is the non-independent and identically distributed (non-iid) characteristics between heterogeneous devices, which cause significant differences in local updates and affect the performance of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Chenxi Huang , Liang Xie , Yibo Yang , Wenxiao Wang , Binbin Lin , Deng Cai

Federated Learning (FL) aims at unburdening the training of deep models by distributing computation across multiple devices (clients) while safeguarding data privacy. On top of that, Federated Continual Learning (FCL) also accounts for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Riccardo Salami , Pietro Buzzega , Matteo Mosconi , Mattia Verasani , Simone Calderara

Although common in real-world applications, heterogeneous client label sets are rarely investigated in federated learning (FL). Furthermore, in the cases they are, clients are assumed to be willing to share their entire label sets with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Adam Breitholtz , Edvin Listo Zec , Fredrik D. Johansson

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning framework that leverages commonalities between distributed client datasets to train a global model. Under heterogeneous clients, however, FL can fail to produce stable training results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Connor J. Mclaughlin , Lili Su