arXiv AI

FediLoRA: Practical Federated Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models Under Missing-Modality Constraints

arXiv AI
Sep 4

FedPS: Federated Preprocessing for structured data via aggregated Statistics

FedPS is a federated preprocessing framework that uses aggregated statistics to address missing values, inconsistent formats, and heterogeneous feature scales in structured data. It employs data-sketching techniques to summarize local datasets efficiently, enabling federated algorithms for feature scaling, encoding, discretization, and missing-value imputation. The framework also extends preprocessing-related models, such as Bayesian Linear Regression, to both horizontal and vertical federated learning settings, offering communication‑efficient and consistent pipelines for practical deployments.

By Xuefeng Xu, Graham Cormode
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 AI
Sep 24

Fed-ReMasker: Federated Tabular Imputation under Feature-Level Missingness

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
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Federated LoRA Adaptation of BiomedCLIP Across Four International Chest X-Ray Cohorts

The paper evaluates federated learning with Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) for fine‑tuning the BiomedCLIP vision‑language model on chest X‑ray classification across four international cohorts. Federated LoRA improves shared‑class AUC from 0.687 to 0.802, outperforming isolated single‑cohort training and approaching a centralized reference. The study shows that SVD‑based product‑space aggregation (FlexLoRA) is crucial for performance, while FedProx offers no advantage over FedAvg in this setting.

By Sanjaya Poudel, Nirajan Kunwor, Manish Dhakal, Debesh Jha, Sunil Kumar Gaire
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Batch effects can impair federated learning in multi-center omics studies

arXiv:2412. 05894v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative analysis of biomedical data without exchanging sensitive patient-level information, but its performance in multi-center studies may be compromised by batch effects which can obscure biological signals.

By Yuliya Burankova, Julian Klemm, Jens J. G. Lohmann, Anne Hartebrodt, Ahmad Taheri, Niklas Probul, Jan Baumbach, Olga Zolotareva
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