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Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning framework that leverages commonalities between distributed client datasets to train a global model. Under heterogeneous clients, however, FL can fail to produce stable training results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Connor J. Mclaughlin , Lili Su

Graph property prediction tasks are important and numerous. While each task offers a small size of labeled examples, unlabeled graphs have been collected from various sources and at a large scale. A conventional approach is training a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Gang Liu , Eric Inae , Tong Zhao , Jiaxin Xu , Tengfei Luo , Meng Jiang

We consider a distributed multi-task learning scheme that accounts for multiple linear model estimation tasks with heterogeneous and/or correlated data streams. We assume that nodes can be partitioned into groups corresponding to different…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Lingzhou Hong , Alfredo Garcia

Many complicated real-world tasks can be broken down into smaller, more manageable parts, and planning with prior knowledge extracted from these simplified pieces is crucial for humans to make accurate decisions. However, replicating this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jingqing Ruan , Kaishen Wang , Qingyang Zhang , Dengpeng Xing , Bo Xu

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

Clustered Federated Learning has emerged as an effective approach for handling heterogeneous data across clients by partitioning them into clusters with similar or identical data distributions. However, most existing methods, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jonas Kirch , Sebastian Becker , Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues , Stefan Harmeling

This paper studies a distributed policy gradient in collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), where agents over a communication network aim to find the optimal policy to maximize the average of all agents' local returns. Due…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xiaoxiao Zhao , Jinlong Lei , Li Li , Jie Chen

The predominant success of diffusion models in generative modeling has spurred significant interest in understanding their theoretical foundations. In this work, we propose a feature learning framework aimed at analyzing and comparing the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Andi Han , Wei Huang , Yuan Cao , Difan Zou

We consider the problem of function estimation by a multi-agent system comprising of two agents and a fusion center. Each agent receives data comprising of samples of an independent variable (input) and the corresponding values of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Aneesh Raghavan , Karl Henrik Johansson

Decentralized methods to solve finite-sum minimization problems are important in many signal processing and machine learning tasks where the data is distributed over a network of nodes and raw data sharing is not permitted due to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Ran Xin , Soummya Kar , Usman A. Khan

Federated learning has emerged as a paradigm to train models collaboratively on inherently distributed client data while safeguarding privacy. In this context, personalized federated learning tackles the challenge of data heterogeneity by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Peng Hu , Jianwei Ma

Federated learning is a privacy-focused approach towards machine learning where models are trained on client devices with locally available data and aggregated at a central server. However, the dependence on a single central server is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shamik Bhattacharyya , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

One of the most promising approaches for unsupervised learning is combining deep representation learning and deep clustering. Some recent works propose to simultaneously learn representation using deep neural networks and perform clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Mina Rezaei , Emilio Dorigatti , David Ruegamer , Bernd Bischl

We propose an efficient protocol for decentralized training of deep neural networks from distributed data sources. The proposed protocol allows to handle different phases of model training equally well and to quickly adapt to concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Michael Kamp , Linara Adilova , Joachim Sicking , Fabian Hüger , Peter Schlicht , Tim Wirtz , Stefan Wrobel

Federated learning is a paradigm of increasing relevance in real world applications, aimed at building a global model across a network of heterogeneous users without requiring the sharing of private data. We focus on model learning over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aritz Pérez , Carlos Echegoyen , Guzmán Santafé

Large-scale AI model training divides work across thousands of GPUs, then synchronizes gradients across them at each step. This incurs a significant network burden that only centralized, monolithic clusters can support, driving up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 David McAllister , Matthew Tancik , Jiaming Song , Angjoo Kanazawa

Distributed and federated learning algorithms and techniques associated primarily with minimization problems. However, with the increase of minimax optimization and variational inequality problems in machine learning, the necessity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Siqi Zhang , Sayantan Choudhury , Sebastian U Stich , Nicolas Loizou

While diffusion-based generative models have made significant strides in visual content creation, conventional approaches face computational challenges, especially for high-resolution images, as they denoise the entire image from noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Haohang Xu , Longyu Chen , Yichen Zhang , Shuangrui Ding , Zhipeng Zhang

The training of diffusion-based models for image generation is predominantly controlled by a select few Big Tech companies, raising concerns about privacy, copyright, and data authority due to their lack of transparency regarding training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Matthijs de Goede , Bart Cox , Jérémie Decouchant

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a global model whose performance is boosted by private data owned by distributed clients, without compromising data privacy. Yet the wide applicability of FL is hindered by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xinyuan Zhao , Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Yuxing Han , Qiang Yang