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Deep retrieval models are widely used for learning entity representations and recommendations. Federated learning provides a privacy-preserving way to train these models without requiring centralization of user data. However, federated deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Lin Ning , Karan Singhal , Ellie X. Zhou , Sushant Prakash

Recently, federated learning has emerged as a promising approach for training a global model using data from multiple organizations without leaking their raw data. Nevertheless, directly applying federated learning to real-world tasks faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Bingzhe Wu , Zhipeng Liang , Yuxuan Han , Yatao Bian , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang

We study the problem of federated clustering when the total number of clusters $K$ across clients is unknown, and the clients have heterogeneous but potentially overlapping cluster sets in their local data. To that end, we develop FedGEM: a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Michael Ibrahim , Nagi Gebraeel , Weijun Xie

Federated learning (FL) enables collaboratively training deep learning models on decentralized data. However, there are three types of heterogeneities in FL setting bringing about distinctive challenges to the canonical federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Tao Shen , Jie Zhang , Xinkang Jia , Fengda Zhang , Gang Huang , Pan Zhou , Kun Kuang , Fei Wu , Chao Wu

Federated graph learning (FGL) has become an important research topic in response to the increasing scale and the distributed nature of graph-structured data in the real world. In FGL, a global graph is distributed across different clients,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Binchi Zhang , Minnan Luo , Shangbin Feng , Ziqi Liu , Jun Zhou , Qinghua Zheng

This paper proposes a federated learning framework designed to achieve \textit{relative fairness} for clients. Traditional federated learning frameworks typically ensure absolute fairness by guaranteeing minimum performance across all…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-05 Shogo Nakakita , Tatsuya Kaneko , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki , Masaaki Imaizumi

In this paper we propose Fed-ensemble: a simple approach that bringsmodel ensembling to federated learning (FL). Instead of aggregating localmodels to update a single global model, Fed-ensemble uses random permutations to update a group of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-04 Naichen Shi , Fan Lai , Raed Al Kontar , Mosharaf Chowdhury

Centralized learning requires data to be aggregated at a central server, which poses significant challenges in terms of data privacy and bandwidth consumption. Federated learning presents a compelling alternative, however, vanilla federated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Shreya Gummadi , Mateus V. Gasparino , Deepak Vasisht , Girish Chowdhary

Federated Learning has been recently proposed for distributed model training at the edge. The principle of this approach is to aggregate models learned on distributed clients to obtain a new more general "average" model (FedAvg). The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-20 Adnan Ben Mansour , Gaia Carenini , Alexandre Duplessis , David Naccache

It is commonly believed that gradient compression in federated learning (FL) enjoys significant improvement in communication efficiency with negligible performance degradation. In this paper, we find that gradient compression induces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yujie Gu , Richeng Jin , Zhaoyang Zhang , Huaiyu Dai

Federated learning (FL) enables leveraging distributed private data for model training in a privacy-preserving way. However, data heterogeneity significantly limits the performance of current FL methods. In this paper, we propose a novel FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Rui Ye , Xinyu Zhu , Jingyi Chai , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that permits a large number of clients with heterogeneous data to coordinate learning of a unified global model without the need to share data amongst each other. A major challenge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Irene Tenison , Sai Aravind Sreeramadas , Vaikkunth Mugunthan , Edouard Oyallon , Irina Rish , Eugene Belilovsky

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralised model training across distributed clients without requiring data centralisation. However, the generalisation performance of the global model is usually degraded by data heterogeneity across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Federated learning (FL), as a collaborative distributed training paradigm with several edge computing devices under the coordination of a centralized server, is plagued by inconsistent local stationary points due to the heterogeneity of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Yixing Liu , Yan Sun , Zhengtao Ding , Li Shen , Bo Liu , Dacheng Tao

Federated Learning (FL) provides decentralised model training, which effectively tackles problems such as distributed data and privacy preservation. However, the generalisation of global models frequently faces challenges from data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Graph data are ubiquitous in the real world. Graph learning (GL) tries to mine and analyze graph data so that valuable information can be discovered. Existing GL methods are designed for centralized scenarios. However, in practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Chuan Chen , Weibo Hu , Ziyue Xu , Zibin Zheng

Federated learning is a paradigm that enables local devices to jointly train a server model while keeping the data decentralized and private. In federated learning, since local data are collected by clients, it is hardly guaranteed that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Seunghan Yang , Hyoungseob Park , Junyoung Byun , Changick Kim

Federated learning is widely used to perform decentralized training of a global model on multiple devices while preserving the data privacy of each device. However, it suffers from heterogeneous local data on each training device which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Sirui Hu , Ling Feng , Xiaohan Yang , Yongchao Chen

Recommendation algorithms rely on user historical interactions to deliver personalized suggestions, which raises significant privacy concerns. Federated recommendation algorithms tackle this issue by combining local model training with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Mingzhe Han , Dongsheng Li , Jiafeng Xia , Jiahao Liu , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu , Tun Lu

Federated learning has emerged as a promising, massively distributed way to train a joint deep model over large amounts of edge devices while keeping private user data strictly on device. In this work, motivated from ensuring fairness among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Zeou Hu , Kiarash Shaloudegi , Guojun Zhang , Yaoliang Yu