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Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning approach which enables model training without data sharing. In this paper, we propose a new federated learning algorithm, Federated Averaging with Client-level Momentum (FedCM), to tackle…
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As a well-established adaptation criterion, the maximum correntropy criterion (MCC) has been receiving increasing attention due to its robust against outliers. In this paper, a new complex recursive maximum correntropy (CRMC) algorithm…
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Object detection in optical remote sensing images is an important and challenging task. In recent years, the methods based on convolutional neural networks have made good progress. However, due to the large variation in object scale, aspect…
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