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Federated continual learning (FCL) has garnered increasing attention for its ability to support distributed computation in environments with evolving data distributions. However, the emergence of new tasks introduces both temporal and…

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Federated continual learning (FCL) tackles scenarios of learning from continuously emerging task data across distributed clients, where the key challenge lies in addressing both temporal forgetting over time and spatial forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kunlun Xu , Yibo Feng , Jiangmeng Li , Yongsheng Qi , Jiahuan Zhou

Federated continual learning (FCL) offers an emerging pattern to facilitate the applicability of federated learning (FL) in real-world scenarios, where tasks evolve dynamically and asynchronously across clients, especially in medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiaoming Qi , Jingyang Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Guanyu Yang , Shuo Li , Yueming Jin

Deep learning models often suffer from forgetting previously learned information when trained on new data. This problem is exacerbated in federated learning (FL), where the data is distributed and can change independently for each user.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Sara Babakniya , Zalan Fabian , Chaoyang He , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr

The holy grail of machine learning is to enable Continual Federated Learning (CFL) to enhance the efficiency, privacy, and scalability of AI systems while learning from streaming data. The primary challenge of a CFL system is to overcome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Satish Kumar Keshri , Nazreen Shah , Ranjitha Prasad

We introduce a rehearsal-free federated domain incremental learning framework, RefFiL, based on a global prompt-sharing paradigm to alleviate catastrophic forgetting challenges in federated domain-incremental learning, where unseen domains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Rui Sun , Haoran Duan , Jiahua Dong , Varun Ojha , Tejal Shah , Rajiv Ranjan

Federated Class Incremental Learning (FCIL) is a new direction in continual learning (CL) for addressing catastrophic forgetting and non-IID data distribution simultaneously. Existing FCIL methods call for high communication costs and…

Federated Learning has been introduced as a new machine learning paradigm enhancing the use of local devices. At a server level, FL regularly aggregates models learned locally on distributed clients to obtain a more general model. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Anastasiia Usmanova , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of distributed clients while protecting privacy. To enhance generalization capability in FL, prototype-based FL is in the spotlight, since shared global prototypes offer semantic…

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The proliferation of end devices has led to a distributed computing paradigm, wherein on-device machine learning models continuously process diverse data generated by these devices. The dynamic nature of this data, characterized by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Zhengyi Zhong , Weidong Bao , Ji Wang , Jianguo Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Wei Yang Bryan Lim

The prevalent communication efficient federated learning (FL) frameworks usually take advantages of model gradient compression or model distillation. However, the unbalanced local data distributions (either in quantity or quality) of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Beibei Li , Zerui Shao , Ao Liu , Peiran Wang

Federated continual learning (FCL) has received increasing attention due to its potential in handling real-world streaming data, characterized by evolving data distributions and varying client classes over time. The constraints of storage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Dezhong Yao , Sanmu Li , Yutong Dai , Zhiqiang Xu , Shengshan Hu , Peilin Zhao , Lichao Sun

Federated learning allows multiple clients to collaborate to train high-performance deep learning models while keeping the training data locally. However, when the local data of all clients are not independent and identically distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Xutong Mu , Yulong Shen , Ke Cheng , Xueli Geng , Jiaxuan Fu , Tao Zhang , Zhiwei Zhang

Continual Federated Learning (CFL) is essential for enabling real-world applications where multiple decentralized clients adaptively learn from continuous data streams. A significant challenge in CFL is mitigating catastrophic forgetting,…

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that can learn a global or personalized model from decentralized datasets on edge devices. However, in the computer vision domain, model performance in FL is far behind centralized…

Unsupervised Federated Learning (UFL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across distributed clients without sharing data or accessing label information. Previous UFL works have predominantly focused on representation learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kuangpu Guo , Lijun Sheng , Yongcan Yu , Jian Liang , Zilei Wang , Ran He

Supervised deep learning needs a large amount of labeled data to achieve high performance. However, in medical imaging analysis, each site may only have a limited amount of data and labels, which makes learning ineffective. Federated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Yawen Wu , Dewen Zeng , Zhepeng Wang , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attraction due to its ability to enable privacy-preserving training over decentralized data. Current literature in FL mostly focuses on single-task learning. However, over time, new tasks may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yavuz Faruk Bakman , Duygu Nur Yaldiz , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Salman Avestimehr

In this paper, we propose a general framework in continual learning for generative models: Feature-oriented Continual Learning (FoCL). Unlike previous works that aim to solve the catastrophic forgetting problem by introducing regularization…

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Federated learning enables a population of clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without exchanging their raw data, but standard algorithms such as FedAvg suffer from slow convergence and high communication and memory…

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