arXiv Machine Learning

Making Cross-Continental Federated Learning Repeatable with FLIP: a Multi-Application Study

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Multi-center Medical Data Mining with FL-Net - A One-stop Shop for Federated Learning

FL-Net is a federated learning framework designed for medical research that addresses five key requirements identified in the literature. It offers modular data harmonization, discovery, disclosure control, versioned tools, and containerized workflow execution, enabling reuse of harmonized data and workflows across studies. The framework was evaluated on MIMIC and US-130 datasets, supporting up to 50 concurrent clients and demonstrating reproducible, audited federated workflows.

By Simon S\"uwer, Julian Klemm, Elisa Acitelli, Mathieu Almeida, Lucia Altucci, Zsolt Bagyura, Michelangela Barbieri, Zsolt-Zolt\'an Bed\H{o}, Rosaria Benedetti, B\'ela Bihari, Csongor Csal\'oka, Lucia Dicunta, Stanislav Ehrlich, Bjoern M. Eskofier, S\'andor-J\'ozsef Fej\'er, Georg Fr\"owis, Walter H\"otzendorfer, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Jens Johann Georg Lohmann, Marianna Maranghi, Lorenzo Marconi, Rudolf Mayer, Wouter Leonard Megchelenbrink, Monika Moga, Adham Mottalib, Sanjeev Mehta, Madeleine M\"uller, Thomas Nystr\"om, Bal\'azs-Attila Orb\'an, Paul O'Toole, Giuseppe Paolisso, Paolo Parini, Matteo Pedrelli, Enrico Petrillo, Philipp Poindl, Niklas Probul, Anastasia Pustozerova, Tanja \v{S}ar\v{c}evi\'c, Lukas Weilguny, Jan Baumbach, Andreas Maier
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

Federated Survival Analysis in Healthcare: A Multi-Model Evaluation on Cross-Institutional Heterogeneous Breast Cancer Data

arXiv:2606. 23871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Survival analysis is central to clinical decision-making, yet reliable time-to-event models require large, diverse cohorts that are rarely available at a single institution, while privacy regulations restrict the centralization of patient data.

By Natalia Moreno-Blasco, Anusha Ihalapathirana, Pekka Siirtola, Miguel Fernandez-de-Retana
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

A Federated Artificial Intelligence Framework for Optimizing Pancreatic Cancer Treatment - Strategy Update

arXiv:2609.24718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While a centralized approach involving patient consent to collect and analyze data centrally would theoretically offer the best data quality and predic...

By Anne-Christin Hauschild, Amirreza Aleyasin, Nils H. Beyer, Lisa Fricke, Jonas H\"ugel, Maryam Moradpour, Anh-Tien Nguyen, Youngjun Park, Sophia Rheinl\"ander, Tim Beissbarth, Elisabeth Hessmann, Martin Middeke, Matthias Lauth, Maximilian Reichert, Ulrich Sax
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Flower Hub: A Reproducible Benchmarking Platform for Federated Learning in Simulation and Deployment

Flower Hub is a platform that allows researchers to publish, discover, and run federated learning (FL) benchmarks in a reproducible way. It packages benchmarks as executable, versioned applications with standardized metadata, pinned dependencies, and explicit evaluation workflows, enabling the same benchmark to run in both simulation and real deployment environments. The platform includes a multi-domain benchmark suite covering cross-silo and cross-device settings in areas such as medical imaging, finance, legal instruction tuning, phishing detection, and audio tagging, and it supports system-aware reporting of runtime and communication metrics.

By Yan Gao, Mohammad Naseri, Javier Fernandez-Marques, Dimitris Stripelis, Lorenzo Sani, Davide Eynard, Fan Zhang, Hong Jia, Ting Dang, D. B. Emerson, Fatemeh Tavakoli, Ole Werger, Lars Wulfert, Petros Demetrakopoulos, Sofia Tsekeridou, InSeo Song, KangYoon Lee, Honghao Li, Lingjuan Lyu, John P Dickerson, Daniel Janes Beutel, Nicholas D. Lane
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

A cautionary tale on the cost-effectiveness of collaborative AI in real-world medical applications

The paper evaluates the cost‑effectiveness of consensus‑based learning (CBL) versus federated learning (FL) across seven medical datasets, three tasks, and eight modalities involving 3 to 23 clients. CBL achieves accuracy comparable to FL while dramatically cutting training time (15‑fold) and communication cost (60‑fold). The study suggests that CBL offers a more sustainable and democratized approach to deploying collaborative AI in real‑world healthcare settings.

By Francesco Cremonesi, Lucia Innocenti, Sebastien Ourselin, Vicky Goh, Michela Antonelli, Marco Lorenzi
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

Federated generative event models for tokenized electronic health records

arXiv:2608. 02939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic health record foundation models are limited by institutionally siloed data and substantial performance degradation under cross-site transfer.

By Michael C. Burkhart, Luke Solo, Inhyeok Lee, S'Khaja Charles, Zewei "Whiskey" Liao, Kaveri Chhikara, Dema Therese, Wan-Ting Liao, Catherine A. Gao, William F. Parker, Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones
arXiv AI
Aug 17

Federated Prompt Learning: A Unified Framework, Empirical Analysis, and Future Directions

arXiv:2608. 13844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become core components of cloud-based intelligent services in academia and industry, yet their training and deployment are hindered by high computational costs, data centralization, and privacy concerns.

By Qinglin Yang, Chen Qiu, Hongyuan Zhang, Pengdeng Li, Yuan Liu, Zhihong Tian