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Recent progress in robotic manipulation has been fueled by large-scale datasets collected across diverse environments. Training robotic manipulation policies on these datasets is traditionally performed in a centralized manner, raising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Santiago Bou Betran , Alberta Longhini , Miguel Vasco , Yuchong Zhang , Danica Kragic

Many image and vision applications require a large amount of data for model training. Collecting all such data at a central location can be challenging due to data privacy and communication bandwidth restrictions. Federated learning is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Tiffany Tuor , Shiqiang Wang , Bong Jun Ko , Changchang Liu , Kin K. Leung

Learning from the collective knowledge of data dispersed across private sources can provide neural networks with enhanced generalization capabilities. Federated learning, a method for collaboratively training a machine learning model across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Matt Gorbett , Hossein Shirazi , Indrakshi Ray

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique for training machine learning models using geographically dispersed data collected by local entities. It includes local computation and synchronization steps. To reduce the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Pengchao Han , Shiqiang Wang , Kin K. Leung

We propose Compressed Vertical Federated Learning (C-VFL) for communication-efficient training on vertically partitioned data. In C-VFL, a server and multiple parties collaboratively train a model on their respective features utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Timothy Castiglia , Anirban Das , Shiqiang Wang , Stacy Patterson

Real-world data is usually segmented by attributes and distributed across different parties. Federated learning empowers collaborative training without exposing local data or models. As we demonstrate through designed attacks, even with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Shuang Zhang , Liyao Xiang , Xi Yu , Pengzhi Chu , Yingqi Chen , Chen Cen , Li Wang

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) enables distributed learning of optimal policies while preserving local data privacy through gradient sharing.However, FRL faces the risk of data privacy leaks, where attackers exploit shared gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shenghong He

Federated learning (FL) offers a privacy-preserving collaborative approach for training models in wireless networks, with channel estimation emerging as a promising application. Despite extensive studies on FL-empowered channel estimation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zexin Fang , Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

Federated learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively learn a model in a distributed fashion. Many existing researches have focused on improving communication efficiency of high-dimensional models and addressing bias caused by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Yuzhu Mao , Zihao Zhao , Meilin Yang , Le Liang , Yang Liu , Wenbo Ding , Tian Lan , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Predictive models are typically trained on historical data to predict future outcomes. While it is commonly assumed that training on more historical data would improve model performance and robustness, data distribution shifts over time may…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Chengyuan Yao , Yunxuan Tang , Christopher Brooks , Rene F. Kizilcec , Renzhe Yu

We study the problem of estimating a continuous ability parameter from sequential binary responses by actively asking questions with varying difficulties, a setting that arises naturally in adaptive testing and online preference learning.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-10 Sanghwa Kim , Dohyun Ahn , Seungki Min

Federated reinforcement learning typically aggregates value functions or policies by parameter averaging, which emphasizes expected return and can obscure statistical multimodality and tail behavior that matter in safety-critical settings.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 David Millard , Cecilia Alm , Rashid Ali , Pengcheng Shi , Ali Baheri

Cooperative training methods for distributed machine learning are typically based on the exchange of local gradients or local model parameters. The latter approach is known as Federated Learning (FL). An alternative solution with reduced…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Jin-Hyun Ahn , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang

This paper investigates the distributed Kalman filter (DKF) for linear systems, with specific attention on measurement fusion, which is a typical way of information sharing and is vital for enhancing stability and improving estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Tuo Yang , Jiachen Qian , Zhisheng Duan , Zhiyong Sun

Federated learning has recently gained significant attention and popularity due to its effectiveness in training machine learning models on distributed data privately. However, as in the single-node supervised learning setup, models trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Motasem Alfarra , Juan C. Pérez , Egor Shulgin , Peter Richtárik , Bernard Ghanem

Federated learning protects data privacy and security by exchanging models instead of data. However, unbalanced data distributions among participating clients compromise the accuracy and convergence speed of federated learning algorithms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Qilong Wu , Lin Liu , Shibei Xue

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative learning among multiple clients in a distributed manner and ensures the security of privacy. However, its performance inevitably degrades with non-Independent and Identically Distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Yunlu Yan , Huazhu Fu , Yuexiang Li , Jinheng Xie , Jun Ma , Guang Yang , Lei Zhu

Although federated learning has achieved many breakthroughs recently, the heterogeneous nature of the learning environment greatly limits its performance and hinders its real-world applications. The heterogeneous data, time-varying wireless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Jingxin Li , Toktam Mahmoodi , Hak-Keung Lam

Amid growing demands for data privacy and advances in computational infrastructure, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed learning paradigm. Nevertheless, differences in data distribution (such as covariate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhenyuan Huang , Hui Zhang , Wenzhong Tang , Haijun Yang

Federated learning is an emerging data-private distributed learning framework, which, however, is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Although several heuristic defenses are proposed to enhance the robustness of federated learning, they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Cheng Chen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ryan Goldhahn , Yi Zhou