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Conventional federated learning (FL) frameworks often suffer from training degradation due to data uncertainty and heterogeneity across local clients. Probabilistic approaches such as Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) can mitigate this issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ratun Rahman , Dinh C. Nguyen

The increasing size of data generated by smartphones and IoT devices motivated the development of Federated Learning (FL), a framework for on-device collaborative training of machine learning models. First efforts in FL focused on learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Othmane Marfoq , Giovanni Neglia , Aurélien Bellet , Laetitia Kameni , Richard Vidal

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that enables model training in communication efficient and privacy-preserving manner. The standard optimization method in FL is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Zeyi Tao , Jindi Wu , Qun Li

We study the problem of decision-theoretic online learning (DTOL). Motivated by practical applications, we focus on DTOL when the number of actions is very large. Previous algorithms for learning in this framework have a tunable learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-01-19 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Yoav Freund , Daniel Hsu

Learning-based approaches for constructing Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) are increasingly being explored for safety-critical control systems. However, these methods typically require complete retraining when applied to unseen…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Lakshmideepakreddy Manda , Shaoru Chen , Mahyar Fazlyab

Safety remains a central challenge in control of dynamical systems, particularly when the boundaries of unsafe sets are complex (e.g., nonconvex, nonsmooth) or unknown. This paper proposes a learning-enabled framework for safety-critical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Shuo Liu , Zhe Huang , Jun Zeng , Koushil Sreenath , Calin A. Belta

Data generated at the network edge can be processed locally by leveraging the paradigm of edge computing (EC). Aided by EC, decentralized federated learning (DFL), which overcomes the single-point-of-failure problem in the parameter server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yunming Liao , Yang Xu , Hongli Xu , Lun Wang , Chen Qian

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized approach for collaborative model training on edge devices. This distributed method of model training offers advantages in privacy, security, regulatory compliance, and cost-efficiency. Our emphasis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Charuka Herath , Xiaolan Liu , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Yogachandran Rahulamathavan

To support real-world decision-making, it is crucial for models to be well-calibrated, i.e., to assign reliable confidence estimates to their predictions. Uncertainty quantification is particularly important in personalized federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Boning Zhang , Dongzhu Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Guanchu Wang , Dimitrios Pezaros , Guangxu Zhu

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a new paradigm for training machine learning models distributively without sacrificing data security and privacy. Learning models on edge devices such as mobile phones is one of the most common use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Sixing Yu , Phuong Nguyen , Ali Anwar , Ali Jannesari

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning framework that enables collaborative model training while respecting data privacy. In various applications, non-uniform availability or participation of users is unavoidable due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Periklis Theodoropoulos , Konstantinos E. Nikolakakis , Dionysis Kalogerias

Learning to optimize is an approach that leverages training data to accelerate the solution of optimization problems. Many approaches use unrolling to parametrize the update step and learn optimal parameters. Although L2O has shown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Patrick Fahy , Mohammad Golbabaee , Matthias J. Ehrhardt

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning paradigm for enhancing data privacy preservation. Its privacy-preserving nature complicates the explanation of the decision-making processes and the evaluation of the reliability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yanci Zhang , Han Yu

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel, multidisciplinary Machine Learning paradigm where multiple clients, such as mobile devices, collaborate to solve machine learning problems. Initially introduced in Kone{\v{c}}n{\'y} et al. (2016a,b);…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Konstantin Burlachenko

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems require balancing competing objectives, often under constraints. The Pareto optimal solution set defines all possible optimal trade-offs over such objectives. In this work, we present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Soumyajit Gupta , Gurpreet Singh , Raghu Bollapragada , Matthew Lease

Instability and slowness are two main problems in deep reinforcement learning. Even if proximal policy optimization (PPO) is the state of the art, it still suffers from these two problems. We introduce an improved algorithm based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Zhenyu Zhang , Xiangfeng Luo , Tong Liu , Shaorong Xie , Jianshu Wang , Wei Wang , Yang Li , Yan Peng

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) improves the alignment of large language models (LLMs) with human values by training directly on human preference datasets, eliminating the need for reward models. However, due to the presence of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Biqing Qi , Pengfei Li , Fangyuan Li , Junqi Gao , Kaiyan Zhang , Bowen Zhou

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) provide an elegant framework for constraining nonlinear control system dynamics to remain within an invariant subset of a designated safe set. However, identifying a CBF that balances performance-by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Lakshmideepakreddy Manda , Shaoru Chen , Mahyar Fazlyab

In this paper, we study representation learning in partially observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs), where the agent learns a decoder function that maps a series of high-dimensional raw observations to a compact representation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jiacheng Guo , Zihao Li , Huazheng Wang , Mengdi Wang , Zhuoran Yang , Xuezhou Zhang

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) enables clients to collaboratively train personalized models tailored to their individual objectives, addressing the challenge of model generalization in traditional Federated Learning (FL) due to high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mrinmay Sen , Chalavadi Krishna Mohan