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We introduce a fine-grained framework for uncertainty quantification of predictive models under distributional shifts. This framework distinguishes the shift in covariate distributions from that in the conditional relationship between the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-20 Jiahao Ai , Zhimei Ren

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) plays an important role in the analysis of parameter inference and system design problems. In a number of cases, however, the statistical data distribution and its associated information matrix are either…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Dave Zachariah , Petre Stoica

The canonical formulation of federated learning treats it as a distributed optimization problem where the model parameters are optimized against a global loss function that decomposes across client loss functions. A recent alternative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Han Guo , Philip Greengard , Hongyi Wang , Andrew Gelman , Yoon Kim , Eric P. Xing

Federated learning (FL) typically faces data heterogeneity, i.e., distribution shifting among clients. Sharing clients' information has shown great potentiality in mitigating data heterogeneity, yet incurs a dilemma in preserving privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Zhiqin Yang , Yonggang Zhang , Yu Zheng , Xinmei Tian , Hao Peng , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han

Federated learning (FL) enables the training of a model leveraging decentralized data in client sites while preserving privacy by not collecting data. However, one of the significant challenges of FL is limited computation and low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Riyasat Ohib , Bishal Thapaliya , Pratyush Gaggenapalli , Jingyu Liu , Vince Calhoun , Sergey Plis

Federated Edge Learning (FEEL) is a promising distributed learning technique that aims to train a shared global model while reducing communication costs and promoting users' privacy. However, the training process might significantly occupy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Boubakr Nour , Soumaya Cherkaoui

We consider industrial federated learning, a collaboration between a small number of powerful, potentially competing industrial players, mediated by a third party aspiring to improve the service it provides to its customers. We argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 David Brunner , Alessio Montuoro

Federated learning has emerged as a promising distributed learning paradigm that facilitates collaborative learning among multiple parties without transferring raw data. However, most existing federated learning studies focus on either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Qinbin Li , Chulin Xie , Xiaojun Xu , Xiaoyuan Liu , Ce Zhang , Bo Li , Bingsheng He , Dawn Song

In federated learning (FL), a number of devices train their local models and upload the corresponding parameters or gradients to the base station (BS) to update the global model while protecting their data privacy. However, due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Zhigang Yan , Dong Li , Zhichao Zhang , Jiguang He

We consider a covariate shift problem where one has access to several different training datasets for the same learning problem and a small validation set which possibly differs from all the individual training distributions. This covariate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-16 Matthew Faw , Rajat Sen , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Constantine Caramanis , Sanjay Shakkottai

We consider a federated learning (FL) system consisting of multiple clients and a server, where the clients aim to collaboratively learn a common decision model from their distributed data. Unlike the conventional FL framework that assumes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Kun Jin , Tongxin Yin , Zhongzhu Chen , Zeyu Sun , Xueru Zhang , Yang Liu , Mingyan Liu

The robustness of federated learning (FL) is vital for the distributed training of an accurate global model that is shared among large number of clients. The collaborative learning framework by typically aggregating model updates is…

Terabytes of data are collected by wind turbine manufacturers from their fleets every day. And yet, a lack of data access and sharing impedes exploiting the full potential of the data. We present a distributed machine learning approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Lorin Jenkel , Stefan Jonas , Angela Meyer

This paper studies semiparametric Fisher information in models parametrized by general normed spaces. The main contribution is to establish that positive semiparametric Fisher information is equivalent to the gradient of the parameter of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Telmo Pérez-Izquierdo

The continuous surge in data volume and velocity is often dealt with using data orchestration and distributed processing approaches, abstracting away the machine learning challenges that exist at the algorithmic level. With growing interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Behraj Khan , Behroz Mirza , Nouman Durrani , Tahir Syed

With privacy as a motivation, Federated Learning (FL) is an increasingly used paradigm where learning takes place collectively on edge devices, each with a cache of user-generated training examples that remain resident on the local device.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Sean Augenstein , Andrew Hard , Kurt Partridge , Rajiv Mathews

Diffusion models often degrade when trained in latent spaces (e.g., VAEs), yet the formal causes remain poorly understood. We quantify latent-space diffusability through the rate of change of the Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) along the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jing Gu , Morteza Mardani , Wonjun Lee , Dongmian Zou , Gilad Lerman

Random Forests (RF) are among the most powerful and widely used predictive models for centralized tabular data, yet few methods exist to adapt them to the federated learning setting. Unlike most federated learning approaches, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Rémi Khellaf , Erwan Scornet , Aurélien Bellet , Julie Josse

Federated Learning offers a solution for decentralised model training, addressing the difficulties associated with distributed data and privacy in machine learning. However, the fact of data heterogeneity in federated learning frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Federated learning performs distributed model training using local data hosted by agents. It shares only model parameter updates for iterative aggregation at the server. Although it is privacy-preserving by design, federated learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Yufei Han , Xiangliang Zhang