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We consider the problem of learning causal relationships from relational data. Existing approaches rely on queries to a relational conditional independence (RCI) oracle to establish and orient causal relations in such a setting. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Sanghack Lee , Vasant Honavar

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique that preserves data privacy by sharing only the trained parameters instead of the client data. This makes FL ideal for highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and time-critical…

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Identifying predictive factors for an outcome of interest via a multivariable analysis is often difficult when the data set is small. Combining data from different medical centers into a single (larger) database would alleviate this…

Applications · Statistics 2024-03-12 Marianne A. Jonker , Hassan Pazira , Anthony CC Coolen

This paper aims to propose a novel framework to address the data privacy issue for Federated Learning (FL)-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) in Internet-of-Vehicles(IoVs) with limited computational resources. In particular, in…

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Composite federated learning offers a general framework for solving machine learning problems with additional regularization terms. However, existing methods often face significant limitations: many require clients to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yuan Zhou , Jiachen Zhong , Xinli Shi , Guanghui Wen , Xinghuo Yu

In medical research, individual-level patient data provide invaluable information, but the patients' right to confidentiality remains of utmost priority. This poses a huge challenge when estimating statistical models such as linear mixed…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-24 Marie Analiz April Limpoco , Christel Faes , Niel Hens

Federated Learning aims to learn a global model on the server side that generalizes to all clients in a privacy-preserving manner, by leveraging the local models from different clients. Existing solutions focus on either regularizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zhuang Qi , Lei Meng , Zitan Chen , Han Hu , Hui Lin , Xiangxu Meng

Classic Machine Learning techniques require training on data available in a single data lake. However, aggregating data from different owners is not always convenient for different reasons, including security, privacy and secrecy. Data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Bruno Casella , Roberto Esposito , Carlo Cavazzoni , Marco Aldinucci

It is commonplace to encounter heterogeneous or nonstationary data, of which the underlying generating process changes across domains or over time. Such a distribution shift feature presents both challenges and opportunities for causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Biwei Huang , Kun Zhang , Jiji Zhang , Joseph Ramsey , Ruben Sanchez-Romero , Clark Glymour , Bernhard Schölkopf

Due to the increasing privacy concerns and data regulations, training data have been increasingly fragmented, forming distributed databases of multiple "data silos" (e.g., within different organizations and countries). To develop effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Qinbin Li , Yiqun Diao , Quan Chen , Bingsheng He

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for collaborative medical image analysis, enabling multiple institutions to build robust predictive models while preserving sensitive patient data. In the context of Whole Slide…

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Data sharing barriers are paramount challenges arising from multicenter clinical trials where multiple data sources are stored in a distributed fashion at different local study sites. Merging such data sources into a common data storage for…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-05 Mengtong Hu , Xu Shi , Peter X. -K. Song

Understanding causal relationships between variables is fundamental across scientific disciplines. Most causal discovery algorithms rely on two key assumptions: (i) all variables are observed, and (ii) the underlying causal graph is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Muralikrishnna G. Sethuraman , Faramarz Fekri

Causal inference methods for observational data are highly regarded due to their wide applicability. While there are already numerous methods available for de-confounding bias, these methods generally assume that covariates consist solely…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-30 Yonghe Zhao , Huiyan Sun

Discovering causal relationships in complex multivariate time series is a fundamental scientific challenge. Traditional methods often falter, either by relying on restrictive linear assumptions or on conditional independence tests that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Gian Marco Paldino , Gianluca Bontempi

For a continuous random variable $Z$, testing conditional independence $X \perp\!\!\!\perp Y |Z$ is known to be a particularly hard problem. It constitutes a key ingredient of many constraint-based causal discovery algorithms. These…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Philip A. Boeken , Joris M. Mooij

As privacy concerns and data regulations grow, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for training machine learning models across decentralized data sources without sharing raw data. However, a significant challenge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jungwon Seo , Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Chunming Rong

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning approach which enables a shared server model to learn by aggregating the locally-computed parameter updates with the training data from spatially-distributed client silos. Though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Mike He Zhu , Léna Néhale Ezzine , Dianbo Liu , Yoshua Bengio

We introduce and develop a general paradigm for combining information across diverse data sources. In broad terms, suppose $\phi$ is a parameter of interest, built up via components $\psi_1,\ldots,\psi_k$ from data sources $1,\ldots,k$. The…

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