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Model-heterogeneous personalized federated learning (MHPFL) enables FL clients to train structurally different personalized models on non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) local data. Existing MHPFL methods focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Liping Yi , Han Yu , Chao Ren , Heng Zhang , Gang Wang , Xiaoguang Liu , Xiaoxiao Li

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning framework where multiple clients, from mobiles to enterprises, collaboratively construct a model under the orchestration of a central server but still retain the decentralized nature of the…

Federated learning (FL) is a popular privacy-preserving paradigm that enables distributed clients to collaboratively train models with a central server while keeping raw data locally. In practice, distinct model architectures, varying data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuting Ma , Lechao Cheng , Yaxiong Wang , Zhun Zhong , Xiaohua Xu , Meng Wang

Federated Prototype Learning (FedPL) has emerged as an effective strategy for handling data heterogeneity in Federated Learning (FL). In FedPL, clients collaboratively construct a set of global feature centers (prototypes), and let local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Xinghao Wu , Jianwei Niu , Xuefeng Liu , Guogang Zhu , Jiayuan Zhang , Shaojie Tang , Wei Chen

As privacy concerns continue to grow, federated learning (FL) has gained significant attention as a promising privacy-preserving technology, leading to considerable advancements in recent years. Unlike traditional machine learning, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Boyu Fan , Siyang Jiang , Xiang Su , Sasu Tarkoma , Pan Hui

In the last years, Federated learning (FL) has become a popular solution to train machine learning models in domains with high privacy concerns. However, FL scalability and performance face significant challenges in real-world deployments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Davide Domini , Gianluca Aguzzi , Lukas Esterle , Mirko Viroli

Data heterogeneity across clients in federated learning (FL) settings is a widely acknowledged challenge. In response, personalized federated learning (PFL) emerged as a framework to curate local models for clients' tasks. In PFL, a common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yutong Dai , Zeyuan Chen , Junnan Li , Shelby Heinecke , Lichao Sun , Ran Xu

Federated learning (FL) is fundamentally a distributed optimization problem executed by communicating agents with local data, local computation, and partial system visibility. Once FL is viewed through that lens, hierarchy is not merely a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Mehdi Bennis , Leandros Tassiulas

Prototype-based federated learning has emerged as a promising approach that shares lightweight prototypes to transfer knowledge among clients with data heterogeneity in a model-agnostic manner. However, existing methods often collect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yanbing Zhou , Xiangmou Qu , Chenlong You , Jiyang Zhou , Jingyue Tang , Xin Zheng , Chunmao Cai , Yingbo Wu

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm in machine learning, where a shared model is collaboratively learned using data from multiple devices to mitigate the risk of data leakage. While recent studies posit that Vision Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Peiran Xu , Zeyu Wang , Jieru Mei , Liangqiong Qu , Alan Yuille , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

Split Learning (SL) is a promising collaborative machine learning approach, enabling resource-constrained devices to train models without sharing raw data, while reducing computational load and preserving privacy simultaneously. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yunrui Sun , Gang Hu , Yinglei Teng , Dunbo Cai

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized learning method used to train machine learning algorithms. In FL, a global model iteratively collects the parameters of local models without accessing their local data. However, a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Mingjie Wang , Jianxiong Guo , Weijia Jia

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning framework that allows multiple users to train models utilizing their local data in a distributed manner. However, considerable statistical heterogeneity in local data across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qi Le , Enmao Diao , Xinran Wang , Vahid Tarokh , Jie Ding , Ali Anwar

Data heterogeneity poses a fundamental challenge in federated learning (FL), especially when clients differ not only in distribution but also in the reliability of their predictions across individual examples. While personalized FL (PFL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amr Abourayya , Jens Kleesiek , Bharat Rao , Michael Kamp

Federated learning (FL) facilitates a privacy-preserving neural network training paradigm through collaboration between edge clients and a central server. One significant challenge is that the distributed data is not independently and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yu Qiao , Huy Q. Le , Mengchun Zhang , Apurba Adhikary , Chaoning Zhang , Choong Seon Hong

Today's 5G and NextG wireless networks are moving toward using the coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission and reception technique, where a client can be simultaneously served by multiple base stations (BSs) for better communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haiyun Liu , Jiahao Xue , Jie Xu , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, making it attractive for privacy-sensitive domains, e.g., healthcare, finance, and IoT. A major obstacle, however, is the potential heterogeneity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Abdelrhman Gaber , Muhammad ElMahdy , Youssif Abuzied , Hassan Abd-Eltawab , Tamer ElBatt

One of the key challenges of collaborative machine learning, without data sharing, is multimodal data heterogeneity in real-world settings. While Federated Learning (FL) enables model training across multiple clients, existing frameworks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Alejandro Guerra-Manzanares , Omar El-Herraoui , Michail Maniatakos , Farah E. Shamout

Data heterogeneity is one of the most challenging issues in federated learning, which motivates a variety of approaches to learn personalized models for participating clients. One such approach in deep neural networks based tasks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jian Xu , Xinyi Tong , Shao-Lun Huang

The heterogeneity of hardware and data is a well-known and studied problem in the community of Federated Learning (FL) as running under heterogeneous settings. Recently, custom-size client models trained with Knowledge Distillation (KD) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Hongrui Shi , Valentin Radu , Po Yang