The paper proposes an opinion‑dynamics approach to form client coalitions in federated learning for heterogeneous IoT systems, specifically targeting smart‑meter water‑consumption forecasting. By modeling coalition formation as a Hegselmann‑Krause bounded‑confidence process on local model weights, the method creates stable coalition structures within ten iterations without extra client computation or communication. Experiments on a real smart‑metering dataset show that this HK‑based coalition formation reduces mean absolute error by up to 54% compared to FedAvg and achieves the highest global accuracy (83‑85%).
By Mohammed El Hanjri, Anas Abouaomar, Hamidou Tembine, Abdellatif Kobbane
The paper investigates how model initialization affects federated short‑term load forecasting (STLF) when client data are heterogeneous. It introduces two strategies: a global pretrained initialization using auxiliary public load data to reduce client drift, and a local sequential initialization (SLIAvg) that lets clients start from progressively adapted models each round. Experiments on real smart‑meter data show these methods improve convergence and lower forecasting errors while remaining compatible with existing federated learning frameworks.
By Jianing Chen, Vajiheh Farhadi, Yan Li, Thomas La Porta
arXiv:2608. 14654v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative paradigm that enables multiple devices to train a global model while preserving local data privacy.
By Hai Anh Tran, Cuong Ta, Truong X. Tran
arXiv:2512. 24625v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate traffic prediction is essential for Intelligent Transportation Systems, including ride-hailing, urban road planning, and vehicle fleet management.
By Zijian Zhao, Yitong Shang, Sen Li
arXiv:2506. 02897v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training, but its effectiveness is often limited by client data heterogeneity.
By Alessandro Licciardi, Roberta Raineri, Anton Proskurnikov, Lamberto Rondoni, Lorenzo Zino
arXiv:2606. 18003v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS) increasingly rely on machine learning to let each node learn from locally sensed data, aligning its behavior with the surrounding environment.
By Davide Domini, Gianluca Aguzzi, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Mirko Viroli, Lukas Esterle
arXiv:2607. 03171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralised federated learning, based on peer-to-peer communication, is increasingly proposed for on-device training of machine learning models, promising a privacy-preserving, communication-efficient training process with no risk of single-point failure.
By Arash Badie-Modiri, Chiara Boldrini, Lorenzo Valerio, J\'anos Kert\'esz, M\'arton Karsai
arXiv:2609.21057v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but its performance degrades under non-IID data and stochastic c...
By Herlock Rahimi, Dionysis Kalogerias
arXiv:2412.06210v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), federated learning (FL) has gained increasing attention for its privacy-preserving use...
By Jiechao Gao, Yuangang Li, Jie Wang, Yue Zhao, Michael Lepech, Brad Campbell
The paper introduces the Private Computation Space (PCS), an open‑source federated learning system designed for agriculture that protects farmer data using asynchronous federated learning, differential privacy, and trusted execution environments. PCS runs on commodity hardware and is resilient to rural infrastructure challenges. In two real‑world deployments—nitrogen monitoring in New York and evapotranspiration prediction in California—PCS achieved a Dice Similarity Coefficient of 0.71 and an $R^2$ of 0.84, improving single‑site model accuracy by 22.4% and 9.1% respectively while preserving privacy.
By Shuangyu Lei, Muhammad Salman Abid, Jacob Belding, Sam Mosher, Manushi B. Trivedi, Shivranjani Baruah, Liam Wickes-Do, Andrew Anderson, Braulio Dumba, Alyssa Whitcraft, Ritvik Sahajpal, Sijin Li, Kelly Robbins, Michael Gore, Margaret Frank, Steven Wolf, Liz Jones, Abraham Stroock, Kaitlin Gold, Hakim Weatherspoon
arXiv:2606. 11272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative and privacy-preserving model training across distributed clients, but most existing FL systems implicitly assume data stationarity.
By Masoume Gholizade, Fabrizio Ruffini, Pietro Ducange, Francesco Marcelloni
BIPPO (Budget-aware Independent Proximal Policy Optimization) is a multi‑agent reinforcement learning framework designed for energy‑efficient client selection in federated learning (FL) over IoT systems. It addresses infrastructure constraints such as limited resources and device churn, which traditional FL and RL approaches overlook. Evaluated on two image‑classification tasks with non‑IID data, BIPPO improves mean accuracy over non‑RL methods, standard PPO, and IPPO while consuming only a negligible portion of the budget, even as client numbers grow.
By Anna Lackinger, Andrea Morichetta, Pantelis A. Frangoudis, Schahram Dustdar