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Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an important machine learning paradigm where a global model is trained based on the private data from distributed clients. However, most of existing FL algorithms cannot guarantee the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Fengda Zhang , Kun Kuang , Yuxuan Liu , Long Chen , Chao Wu , Fei Wu , Jiaxun Lu , Yunfeng Shao , Jun Xiao

Over the past few years, the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been reshaped by the emergence of Foundation Models (FMs). Pre-trained on massive datasets, these models exhibit exceptional performance across diverse downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shenghui Li , Fanghua Ye , Meng Fang , Jiaxu Zhao , Yun-Hin Chan , Edith C. H. Ngai , Thiemo Voigt

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed model training on edge devices while preserving data privacy. However, clients tend to have non-Independent and Identically Distributed (non-IID) data, which often leads to client-drift, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Fotios Zantalis , Evangelos Zervas , Grigorios Koulouras

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of distributed clients while protecting privacy. To enhance generalization capability in FL, prototype-based FL is in the spotlight, since shared global prototypes offer semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Huan Wang , Jun Shen , Haoran Li , Zhenyu Yang , Jun Yan , Ousman Manjang , Yanlong Zhai , Di Wu , Guansong Pang

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance but are challenging to deploy due to their high computational and storage demands. Pruning can reduce model size, yet existing methods assume public access to calibration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Guangji Bai , Yijiang Li , Zilinghan Li , Liang Zhao , Kibaek Kim

Federated learning (FL) on heterogeneous data (non-IID data) has recently received great attention. Most existing methods focus on studying the convergence guarantees for the global objective. While these methods can guarantee the decrease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Shu Zheng , Tiandi Ye , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging domain in the broader context of artificial intelligence research. Methodologies pertaining to FL assume distributed model training, consisting of a collection of clients and a server, with the main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Bhargav Ganguly , Vaneet Aggarwal

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) raises privacy concerns due to the risk of exposing sensitive training data. Federated learning (FL) mitigates this risk by keeping training samples on local devices, while facing the following…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zhichao You , Xuewen Dong , Ke Cheng , Xutong Mu , Jiaxuan Fu , Shiyang Ma , Qiang Qu , Yulong Shen

Recent advancements in federated learning (FL) have greatly facilitated the development of decentralized collaborative applications, particularly in the domain of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT). However, a critical aspect missing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Ziyan An , Taylor T. Johnson , Meiyi Ma

Federated learning (FL) is a training technique that enables client devices to jointly learn a shared model by aggregating locally-computed models without exposing their raw data. While most of the existing work focuses on improving the FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Sai Qian Zhang , Jieyu Lin , Qi Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) has shown great potential as a privacy-preserving solution to learning from decentralized data that are only accessible to end devices (i.e., clients). In many scenarios, however, a large proportion of the clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Carsten Maple

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm, aiming to train a global model by exploiting the decentralized data across millions of edge devices. Compared with centralized learning, FL preserves the clients'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Bocheng Chen , Nikolay Ivanov , Guangjing Wang , Qiben Yan

Federated learning (FL) has been recognized as a rapidly growing research area, where the model is trained over massively distributed clients under the orchestration of a parameter server (PS) without sharing clients' data. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yiwei Li , Chien-Wei Huang , Shuai Wang , Chong-Yung Chi , Tony Q. S. Quek

Deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-time systems remains challenging due to their substantial computational demands and privacy concerns. We propose Floe, a hybrid federated learning framework designed for latency-sensitive,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Chunlin Tian , Kahou Tam , Yebo Wu , Shuaihang Zhong , Li Li , Nicholas D. Lane , Chengzhong Xu

Hybrid Language Models (HLMs) combine the low-latency efficiency of Small Language Models (SLMs) on edge devices with the high accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) on centralized servers. Unlike traditional end-to-end LLM inference,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Faranaksadat Solat , Joohyung Lee , Mohamed Seif , Dusit Niyato , H. Vincent Poor

Federated fine-tuning offers a promising approach for tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge devices while preserving data privacy. However, fine-tuning these models on edge devices remains challenging due to high memory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed , Kilian Pfeiffer , Ramin Khalili , Heba Khdr , Jörg Henkel

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly accessed as remotely hosted services by edge and enterprise clients that cannot run frontier models locally. Since models vary widely in capability and price, routing queries to models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Baris Askin , Shivam Patel , Anupam Nayak , Andrea Vigano , Jiin Woo , Gauri Joshi , Carlee Joe-Wong

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) constitutes a novel paradigm that tailors Machine Learning (ML) models to individual clients, thereby furnishing personalized model updates whilst upholding stringent data privacy principles. Diverging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Md. Arifur Rahman , Isha Das , Mushfiqur Rahman Abir , B. M. Taslimul Haque , Abdullah Al Noman , Abir Ahmed , Md. Jakir Hossen

Personalized alignments for individual users have been a long-standing goal in large language models (LLMs). We introduce Drift, a novel framework that personalizes LLMs at decoding time with implicit user preferences. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Minbeom Kim , Kang-il Lee , Seongho Joo , Hwaran Lee , Thibaut Thonet , Kyomin Jung

Federated learning (FL) is a heavily promoted approach for training ML models on sensitive data, e.g., text typed by users on their smartphones. FL is expressly designed for training on data that are unbalanced and non-iid across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Tao Yu , Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov