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Continual learning (CL) aims to incrementally learn different tasks (such as classification) in a non-stationary data stream without forgetting old ones. Most CL works focus on tackling catastrophic forgetting under a learning-from-scratch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mark D. McDonnell , Dong Gong , Amin Parveneh , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Anton van den Hengel

Deep learning models for radiology interpretation increasingly rely on multi-institutional data, yet privacy regulations and distribution shift across hospitals limit central data pooling. Federated learning (FL) allows hospitals to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Anay Sinhal , Arpana Sinhal , Amit Sinhal

We focus on the problem of Personalized Federated Continual Learning (PFCL): a group of distributed clients, each with a sequence of local tasks on arbitrary data distributions, collaborate through a central server to train a personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Jin Xie , Chenqing Zhu , Songze Li

Existing research on continual learning (CL) of a sequence of tasks focuses mainly on dealing with catastrophic forgetting (CF) to balance the learning plasticity of new tasks and the memory stability of old tasks. However, an ideal CL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhi Wang , Zhongbin Wu , Yanni Li , Bing Liu , Guangxi Li , Yuping Wang

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

The standard class-incremental continual learning setting assumes a set of tasks seen one after the other in a fixed and predefined order. This is not very realistic in federated learning environments where each client works independently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Donald Shenaj , Marco Toldo , Alberto Rigon , Pietro Zanuttigh

Federated Class Continual Learning (FCCL) merges the challenges of distributed client learning with the need for seamless adaptation to new classes without forgetting old ones. The key challenge in FCCL is catastrophic forgetting, an issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jinglin Liang , Jin Zhong , Hanlin Gu , Zhongqi Lu , Xingxing Tang , Gang Dai , Shuangping Huang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Analytic Federated Learning (AFL) is an enhanced gradient-free federated learning (FL) paradigm designed to accelerate training by updating the global model in a single step with closed-form least-square (LS) solutions. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shunxian Gu , Chaoqun You , Deke Guo , Zhihao Qu , Bangbang Ren , Zaipeng Xie , Lailong Luo

Heterogeneous federated multi-task learning (HFMTL) is a federated learning technique that combines heterogeneous tasks of different clients to achieve more accurate, comprehensive predictions. In real-world applications, visual and natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yiqiang Chen , Teng Zhang , Xinlong Jiang , Qian Chen , Chenlong Gao , Wuliang Huang

Federated multi-task learning (FMTL) seeks to collaboratively train customized models for users with different tasks while preserving data privacy. Most existing approaches assume model congruity (i.e., the use of fully or partially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mehdi Setayesh , Mahdi Beitollahi , Yasser H. Khalil , Hongliang Li

Federated learning (FL) is a popular privacy-preserving paradigm that enables distributed clients to collaboratively train models with a central server while keeping raw data locally. In practice, distinct model architectures, varying data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuting Ma , Lechao Cheng , Yaxiong Wang , Zhun Zhong , Xiaohua Xu , Meng Wang

This paper focuses on Federated Domain-Incremental Learning (FDIL) where each client continues to learn incremental tasks where their domain shifts from each other. We propose a novel adaptive knowledge matching-based personalized FDIL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yichen Li , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Ruixuan Li , Yining Qi , Jingcai Guo

It is critical for robots to explore Federated Learning (FL) settings where several robots, deployed in parallel, can learn independently while also sharing their learning with each other. This collaborative learning in real-world…

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

Continual learning (CL) over non-stationary data streams remains one of the long-standing challenges in deep neural networks (DNNs) as they are prone to catastrophic forgetting. CL models can benefit from self-supervised pre-training as it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Prashant Bhat , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Federated learning is a decentralized training approach that keeps data under stakeholder control while achieving superior performance over isolated training. While inter-institutional feature discrepancies pose a challenge in all federated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Vasilis Siomos , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Giacomo Tarroni

Federated Learning (FL) is currently the most widely adopted framework for collaborative training of (deep) machine learning models under privacy constraints. Albeit it's popularity, it has been observed that Federated Learning yields…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Felix Sattler , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

Prompt learning for vision-language models, e.g., CoOp, has shown great success in adapting CLIP to different downstream tasks, making it a promising solution for federated learning due to computational reasons. Existing prompt learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Chen Qiu , Xingyu Li , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Madan Ravi Ganesh , Zhenzhen Li , Lu Peng , Wan-Yi Lin

Catastrophic forgetting is one of the major challenges in continual learning. To address this issue, some existing methods put restrictive constraints on the optimization space of the new task for minimizing the interference to old tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Sen Lin , Li Yang , Deliang Fan , Junshan Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across multiple clients while optionally preserving data privacy. However, communication efficiency remains a critical bottleneck, particularly for large-scale models. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arnaud Descours , Léonard Deroose , Jan Ramon