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Federated Averaging (FedAvg) and its variants are the most popular optimization algorithms in federated learning (FL). Previous convergence analyses of FedAvg either assume full client participation or partial client participation where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yae Jee Cho , Pranay Sharma , Gauri Joshi , Zheng Xu , Satyen Kale , Tong Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel distributed machine learning approach to leverage data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices while maintaining data privacy. However, the current FL algorithms face the challenges of non-independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Gang Hu , Yinglei Teng , Nan Wang , F. Richard Yu

Personalized federated learning (PFL) tailors models to clients' unique data distributions while preserving privacy. However, existing aggregation-weight-based PFL methods often struggle with heterogeneous data, facing challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuxia Sun , Aoxiang Sun , Siyi Pan , Zhixiao Fu , Jingcai Guo

Federated learning (FL) aims to collaboratively train a global model while ensuring client data privacy. However, FL faces challenges from the non-IID data distribution among clients. Clustered FL (CFL) has emerged as a promising solution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xiaofeng Xue , Haokun Mao , Qiong Li

Federated learning seeks to foster collaboration among distributed clients while preserving the privacy of their local data. Traditionally, federated learning methods assume a fixed setting in which client data and learning objectives…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Can Peng , Qianhui Men , Pramit Saha , Qianye Yang , Cheng Ouyang , J. Alison Noble

Federated learning has allowed the training of statistical models over remote devices without the transfer of raw client data. In practice, training in heterogeneous and large networks introduce novel challenges in various aspects like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Dipankar Sarkar , Sumit Rai , Ankur Narang

Federated learning suffers in the case of non-iid local datasets, i.e., when the distributions of the clients' data are heterogeneous. One promising approach to this challenge is the recently proposed method FedAUX, an augmentation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Haley Hoech , Roman Rischke , Karsten Müller , Wojciech Samek

Owing to the low communication costs and privacy-promoting capabilities, Federated Learning (FL) has become a promising tool for training effective machine learning models among distributed clients. However, with the distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Kang Wei , Wen Chen , H. Vincent Poor

We consider a cross-silo federated learning (FL) setting where a machine learning model with a fully connected first layer is trained between different clients and a central server using FedAvg, and where the aggregation step can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Tanguy Marchand , Régis Loeb , Ulysse Marteau-Ferey , Jean Ogier du Terrail , Arthur Pignet

In federated learning, a federator coordinates the training of a model, e.g., a neural network, on privately owned data held by several participating clients. The gradient descent algorithm, a well-known and popular iterative optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Maximilian Egger , Christoph Hofmeister , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Rawad Bitar

Data heterogeneity presents significant challenges for federated learning (FL). Recently, dataset distillation techniques have been introduced, and performed at the client level, to attempt to mitigate some of these challenges. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yuqi Jia , Saeed Vahidian , Jingwei Sun , Jianyi Zhang , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yiran Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a promising paradigm to enable privacy-preserving deep learning from distributed data. Most previous works are based on federated average (FedAvg), which, however, faces several critical issues, including a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) empowers LLMs with external knowledge, making cross-institutional domain-specific knowledge base integration a highly promising deployment paradigm. Despite this potential, strict privacy regulations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chenxin Mao , Shangyu Liu , Zhenzhe Zheng , Fan Wu , Jie Wu , Guihai Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized privacy-preserving learning technique in which clients learn a joint collaborative model through a central aggregator without sharing their data. In this setting, all clients learn a single common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Siddharth Divi , Habiba Farrukh , Berkay Celik

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm enabling multiple clients to train a model collaboratively without exposing their local data. Among FL schemes, clustering is an effective technique addressing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yunan Wei , Shengnan Zhao , Chuan Zhao , Zhe Liu , Zhenxiang Chen , Minghao Zhao

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed learning paradigm under privacy constraint. Data heterogeneity is one of the main challenges in FL, which results in slow convergence and degraded performance. Most existing approaches only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Lin Zhang , Li Shen , Liang Ding , Dacheng Tao , Ling-Yu Duan

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple parties without sharing raw data, with semi-asynchronous FL (SAFL) emerging as a balanced approach between synchronous and asynchronous FL. However, SAFL faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yunbo Li , Jiaping Gui , Zhihang Deng , Fanchao Meng , Yue Wu

In cross-device federated learning (FL) with millions of mobile clients, only a small subset of clients participate in training in every communication round, and Federated Averaging (FedAvg) is the most popular algorithm in practice.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Zhenyu Sun , Ziyang Zhang , Zheng Xu , Gauri Joshi , Pranay Sharma , Ermin Wei

Federated learning has become increasingly widespread due to its ability to train models collaboratively without centralizing sensitive data. While most research on FL emphasizes privacy-preserving techniques during training, the evaluation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Cem Ata Baykara , Ali Burak Ünal , Mete Akgün

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm to conduct collaborative learning among clients on a joint model. The primary goal is to share clients' local training parameters with an integrating server while preserving their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mahdi Ghafourian , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana , Aythami Morales