arXiv:2409. 06067v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Previous studies on federated learning (FL) often encounter performance degradation due to data heterogeneity among different clients.
By Jianyi Zhang, Hao Frank Yang, Ang Li, Xin Guo, Pu Wang, Haiming Wang, Yiran Chen, Hai Li
arXiv:2607. 23245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Federated Learning is often challenged by arbitrary modality missingness and Non-IID data distributions, which lead to severe representation drift and hinder effective collaboration across clients.
By Haochen Liang, Jie Zhang, Hideya Ochiai
arXiv:2608. 15107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) is a practical framework that can train models on distributed user data while guaranteeing data privacy; however, due to heterogeneity in which each user has a different data distribution, problems frequently arise where both global and personalization performance deteriorate simultaneously.
By Seongyoon Kim
The paper introduces FedPFT, a federated learning framework that tackles the feature‑classifier mismatch problem by using personalized prompts processed through a shared self‑attention transformation module. Unlike prior methods that either degrade the feature extractor or address the mismatch only after training, FedPFT aligns local features with the global classifier during training, improving aggregation and model performance. Experiments demonstrate that FedPFT surpasses state‑of‑the‑art methods by up to 5.07%, and gains up to 7.08% when combined with collaborative contrastive learning.
By Xinghao Wu, Xuefeng Liu, Jianwei Niu, Guogang Zhu, Mingjia Shi, Shaojie Tang, Jing Yuan
arXiv:2406.02447v5 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) aims at unburdening the training of deep models by distributing computation across multiple devices (clients) while safegua...
By Riccardo Salami, Pietro Buzzega, Matteo Mosconi, Mattia Verasani, Simone Calderara
Fed-ReMasker is a federated learning approach that adapts the ReMasker masked autoencoder for tabular data imputation, specifically addressing feature-level missingness where entire features are absent at some centers. The method enables centers to impute unobserved features by leveraging knowledge from collaborating institutions. In benchmark tests on synthetic and real-world datasets, Fed-ReMasker achieves the lowest imputation error in the majority of scenarios and remains robust to client heterogeneity, closely matching the performance of a centralized model.
By Ioannis Papathanail, Rooholla Poursoleymani, Lubnaa Abdur Rahman, Stavroula Georgia Mougiakakou
The paper addresses the mismatch between learner and client data distributions in federated learning, noting that traditional client selection methods often ignore this misalignment. It introduces a dynamic, influence-aware client selection framework that uses a small proxy dataset to estimate each client's utility for the learner’s objective, prioritizing informative sources while mitigating noise and heterogeneity. Experiments on CIFAR-10 with heterogeneous partitions show the proposed method outperforms static and dynamic baselines, achieving faster convergence and higher accuracy.
By Yiming Xie, Lili Su, Ningfang Mi
arXiv:2608. 09240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal federated learning (FL) supports collaborative modeling in privacy-sensitive health-sensing and medical settings, but realistic deployments often exhibit dual-axis modality missingness: clients have different modality sets, and individual samples may contain only subsets of the modalities available locally.
By Adiba Orzikulova, Jaehyun Kwak, Jaemin Shin, Yunqi Guo, Xiaomin Ouyang, Guoliang Xing, Steven Euijong Whang, Sung-Ju Lee
arXiv:2608. 12108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while keeping data local.
By Mirko Konstantin, Stefan Zachow, Anirban Mukhopadhyay
arXiv:2606. 02172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning discriminative visual representations from distributed, heterogeneous data is a fundamental challenge in Federated Learning (FL).
By Mario Casado-Diez, Alejandro Dopico-Castro, Ver\'onica Bol\'on-Canedo, Bertha Guijarro-Berdi\~nas
arXiv:2607. 27665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated graph learning enables collaborative training over decentralized graph data without sharing raw graph information.
By Zekai Chen, Haodong Lu, Shihao Li, Weiwei Ji, Xunkai Li, Xun Wu, Yinlin Zhu, Rong-Hua Li
arXiv:2405. 16472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Contemporary AI faces the challenge of balancing generality with user-specific personalization.
By Shutong Chen, Guodong Long, Tianyi Zhou, Jie Ma, Jing Jiang, Chengqi Zhang