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Federated Learning (FL) aims to learn a single global model that enables the central server to help the model training in local clients without accessing their local data. The key challenge of FL is the heterogeneity of local data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Sicong Liang , Junchao Tian , Shujun Yang , Yu Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables training ML models on edge clients without sharing data. However, the federated model's performance on local data varies, disincentivising the participation of clients who benefit little from FL. Fair FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Alex Iacob , Pedro P. B. Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane

Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost) faces significant challenges posed by label noise, especially in multiclass classification tasks. Existing methods either lack mechanisms to handle label noise effectively or suffer from high computational costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Qin Xie , Qinghua Zhang , Shuyin Xia , Xinran Zhou , Guoyin Wang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy, yet faces challenges in non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) settings due to client drift, which impairs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , Bruce J. West , YangQuan Chen

In federated learning (FL), model aggregation has been widely adopted for data privacy. In recent years, assigning different weights to local models has been used to alleviate the FL performance degradation caused by differences between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Chenghao Huang , Weilong Chen , Yuxi Chen , Shunji Yang , Yanru Zhang

Federated learning (FL) has enabled multiple data owners (a.k.a. FL clients) to train machine learning models collaboratively without revealing private data. Since the FL server can only engage a limited number of clients in each training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yuxin Shi , Zelei Liu , Zhuan Shi , Han Yu

Deep learning is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in medical research and applications while involving sensitive information and even critical diagnosis decisions. Researchers observe a significant performance disparity among subgroups with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zikang Xu , Shang Zhao , Quan Quan , Qingsong Yao , S. Kevin Zhou

Federated learning (FL) has become one of the key methods for privacy-preserving collaborative learning, as it enables the transfer of models without requiring local data exchange. Within the FL framework, an aggregation algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Haizhou Zhang , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund

Online intelligent education platforms have generated a vast amount of distributed student learning data. This influx of data presents opportunities for cognitive diagnosis (CD) to assess students' mastery of knowledge concepts while also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shangshang Yang , Jialin Han , Xiaoshan Yu , Ziwen Wang , Hao Jiang , Haiping Ma , Xingyi Zhang , Geyong Min

Deep learning has proven to be a highly effective tool for a wide range of applications, significantly when leveraging the power of multi-loss functions to optimize performance on multiple criteria simultaneously. However, optimal selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Amin Golnari , Mostafa Diba

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables multiple clients to learn a powerful global model by aggregating local training. However, the performance of the global model is often hampered by non-i.i.d.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Chun-Mei Feng , Kai Yu , Nian Liu , Xinxing Xu , Salman Khan , Wangmeng Zuo

Federated learning allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without exchanging their data, thus preserving data privacy. Unfortunately, it suffers significant performance degradation due to heterogeneous data at clients.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Tailin Zhou , Jun Zhang , Danny H. K. Tsang

Federated learning has made an important contribution to data privacy-preserving. Many previous works are based on the assumption that the data are independently identically distributed (IID). As a result, the model performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Anxun He , Jianzong Wang , Zhangcheng Huang , Jing Xiao

Federated Learning (FL) suffers from severe performance degradation due to the data heterogeneity among clients. Existing works reveal that the fundamental reason is that data heterogeneity can cause client drift where the local model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Haoran Xu , Jiaze Li , Wanyi Wu , Hao Ren

Improving the fairness of federated learning (FL) benefits healthy and sustainable collaboration, especially for medical applications. However, existing fair FL methods ignore the specific characteristics of medical FL applications, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yunlu Yan , Lei Zhu , Yuexiang Li , Xinxing Xu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu , Salman Khan , Chun-Mei Feng

Federated learning has emerged as a promising, massively distributed way to train a joint deep model over large amounts of edge devices while keeping private user data strictly on device. In this work, motivated from ensuring fairness among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Zeou Hu , Kiarash Shaloudegi , Guojun Zhang , Yaoliang Yu

With the wealth of information produced by social networks, smartphones, medical or financial applications, speculations have been raised about the sensitivity of such data in terms of users' personal privacy and data security. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Vito Walter Anelli , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Antonio Ferrara

In heterogeneous scenarios where the data distribution amongst the Federated Learning (FL) participants is Non-Independent and Identically distributed (Non-IID), FL suffers from the well known problem of data heterogeneity. This leads the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Fatima Abacha , Sin G. Teo , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Mustafa A. Mustafa

Federated Learning (FL) has recently emerged as a promising method that employs a distributed learning model structure to overcome data privacy and transmission issues paused by central machine learning models. In FL, datasets collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ali Anaissi , Basem Suleiman

Data-driven AI systems can lead to discrimination on the basis of protected attributes like gender or race. One reason for this behavior is the encoded societal biases in the training data (e.g., females are underrepresented), which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Vasileios Iosifidis , Arjun Roy , Eirini Ntoutsi