arXiv AI

Sheaf-Based Federated Representation Learning

arXiv:2608. 10016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Heterogeneous federated systems require agents to learn and exchange informative representations despite differences in data distributions, sensing modalities, model architectures, latent dimensionalities, and local learning objectives.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

JEPAMatch: Geometric Representation Shaping for Semi-Supervised Learning

JEPAMatch introduces a new semi‑supervised learning framework that replaces traditional output‑thresholding with explicit geometric shaping of latent representations. By combining the FlexMatch loss with a latent‑space regularization inspired by LeJEPA, the method encourages isotropic Gaussian structure in the embedding space, mitigating class imbalance and noisy pseudo‑labels. Experiments on CIFAR‑100, STL‑10, and Tiny‑ImageNet show consistent performance gains and faster convergence compared to existing FixMatch‑based baselines.

By Ali Aghababaei-Harandi, Aude Sportisse, Massih-Reza Amini
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Differentiated Aggregation to Improve Generalization in Federated Learning

The paper proposes a new federated learning approach called FedALS that reduces communication costs by varying aggregation frequencies across model layers. It derives tighter generalization bounds for one‑round and multi‑round federated learning, linking these bounds to local updates and data heterogeneity. Based on representation‑learning insights, the authors argue that infrequent aggregation of early layers and more frequent aggregation of final layers yields more generalizable models, especially in non‑iid settings, and demonstrate the method’s effectiveness experimentally.

By Peyman Gholami, Hulya Seferoglu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

FedADB: Class Anchor-Driven Dual-Branch Federated Learning for Mitigating Forgetting

arXiv:2608. 15310v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal data collected by heterogeneous devices are used for collaborative training, where federated learning (FL) serves as a key paradigm for effective distributed modeling with data privacy preservation.

By Zhenyan Liu, Hua Zhang, Haoran Gao, Qi Li, Hongliang Zhu, Huiyu Zhou, Zongliang Shen, Yanxin Xu, Jiahui Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Rethinking Federated Graph Foundation Models: A Graph-Language Alignment-based Approach

arXiv:2601. 21369v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent studies of federated graph foundational models (FedGFMs) break the idealized and untenable assumption of having centralized data storage to train graph foundation models, and accommodate the reality of distributed, privacy-restricted data silos.

By Yinlin Zhu, Di Wu, Xianzhi Zhang, Yuming Ai, Xunkai Li, Miao Hu, Guocong Quan
arXiv AI
Sep 21

Federated Deep Clustering Networks for High-Dimensional and Heterogeneous Data

The paper introduces FedDCN, a federated deep clustering network that jointly optimizes reconstruction and clustering losses for high‑dimensional, heterogeneous data. It addresses challenges of non‑IID client data by generating synthetic augmentations and applying geometric regularization to align latent spaces. Experiments show the method’s effectiveness under both IID and non‑IID settings, and the authors outline future research directions.

By Morris Stallmann, Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos, Marcin Pietrasik, Anna Wilbik
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

FedSLoP: Memory-Efficient Federated Learning with Low-Rank Gradient Projection

arXiv:2604. 24012v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning enables a population of clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without exchanging their raw data, but standard algorithms such as FedAvg suffer from slow convergence and high communication and memory costs in heterogeneous, resource-constrained environments.

By Yutong He, Zhengyang Huang, Jiahe Geng, Kun Yuan