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Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Xiang Ma , Qun Wang , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

Federated Learning (FL) can be affected by data and device heterogeneities, caused by clients' different local data distributions and latencies in uploading model updates (i.e., staleness). Traditional schemes consider these heterogeneities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Haoming Wang , Wei Gao

Many distributed machine learning (ML) systems adopt the non-synchronous execution in order to alleviate the network communication bottleneck, resulting in stale parameters that do not reflect the latest updates. Despite much development in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Wei Dai , Yi Zhou , Nanqing Dong , Hao Zhang , Eric P. Xing

In federated learning (FL), fair and accurate measurement of the contribution of each federated participant is of great significance. The level of contribution not only provides a rational metric for distributing financial benefits among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Jie Zhao , Xinghua Zhu , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

Asynchronous Federated Learning (AFL) has emerged as a significant research area in recent years. By not waiting for slower clients and executing the training process concurrently, it achieves faster training speed compared to traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Chaoyi Lu , Yiding Sun , Zhichuan Yang , Jinqian Chen , Dongfu Yin , Jihua Zhu

Federated learning (FL) provides a communication-efficient approach to solve machine learning problems concerning distributed data, without sending raw data to a central server. However, existing works on FL only utilize first-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Wei Liu , Li Chen , Yunfei Chen , Wenyi Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to train a model while keeping their data private collaboratively. Previous studies have shown that data heterogeneity between clients leads to drifts across client updates. However, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Tailin Zhou , Jun Zhang , Danny H. K. Tsang

Synchronous federated learning scales poorly due to the straggler effect. Asynchronous algorithms increase the update throughput by processing updates upon arrival, but they introduce two fundamental challenges: gradient staleness, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Abdelkrim Alahyane , Céline Comte , Matthieu Jonckheere

Decoupled learning is a branch of model parallelism which parallelizes the training of a network by splitting it depth-wise into multiple modules. Techniques from decoupled learning usually lead to stale gradient effect because of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Huiping Zhuang , Zhiping Lin , Kar-Ann Toh

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed edge devices while preserving data privacy, and typically operates in a round-based synchronous manner. However, synchronous FL suffers from latency bottlenecks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Asaf Goren , Natalie Lang , Nir Shlezinger , Alejandro Cohen

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing their private data. However, data heterogeneity across clients leads to client drift, which degrades the overall generalization performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Alina Devkota , Jacob Thrasher , Donald Adjeroh , Binod Bhattarai , Prashnna K. Gyawali

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple devices to collaboratively learn a global model without sharing their personal data. In real-world applications, the different parties are likely to have heterogeneous data distribution and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ouiame Marnissi , Hajar El Hammouti , El Houcine Bergou

Federated learning (FL) systems face performance challenges in dealing with heterogeneous devices and non-identically distributed data across clients. We propose a dynamic global model aggregation method within Asynchronous Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jikun Gao , Ioannis Mavromatis , Peizheng Li , Pietro Carnelli , Aftab Khan

Generalization performance is a key metric in evaluating machine learning models when applied to real-world applications. Good generalization indicates the model can predict unseen data correctly when trained under a limited number of data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zhenyu Sun , Xiaochun Niu , Ermin Wei

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for decentralized machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across diverse clients without sharing raw data. However, traditional FL approaches often face limitations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ali Forootani , Raffaele Iervolino

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving paradigm for collaboratively training a global model from decentralized clients. However, the performance of FL is hindered by non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xinyu Zhang , Weiyu Sun , Ying Chen

Asynchronous Federated Learning (AFL) confronts inherent challenges arising from the heterogeneity of devices (e.g., their computation capacities) and low-bandwidth environments, both potentially causing stale model updates (e.g., local…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiajun Song , Jiajun Luo , Rongwei Lu , Shuzhao Xie , Bin Chen , Zhi Wang

Federated Learning has become a widely-used framework which allows learning a global model on decentralized local datasets under the condition of protecting local data privacy. However, federated learning faces severe optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Wenkai Yang , Yankai Lin , Guangxiang Zhao , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Federated Learning (FL) endeavors to harness decentralized data while preserving privacy, facing challenges of performance, scalability, and collaboration. Asynchronous Federated Learning (AFL) methods have emerged as promising alternatives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jeffrey Ma , Alan Tu , Yiling Chen , Vijay Janapa Reddi

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning (ML) framework that combines on-device training and server-based aggregation to train a common ML model among distributed agents. In this work, we propose an asynchronous FL design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Chung-Hsuan Hu , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson