Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning over decentralized data silos without centralizing raw data. However, heterogeneous local architectures often induce non-aligned representation spaces, making it difficult to transfer global knowledge across silos.
arXiv:2607. 08368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the widespread deployment of basic models in edge intelligence, communication bandwidth has become a core bottleneck restricting the scalability of federated learning.
By Lingyu Qiu, Daniela Annunziata, Stefano Izzo, Fabio Giampaolo, Francesco Piccialli
The paper introduces Local Superior Soups, a model‑interpolation based local training technique designed to improve the adaptation of large pre‑trained models in cross‑silo federated learning. By encouraging exploration of a connected low‑loss basin through regularized interpolation, the method reduces the number of communication rounds needed and boosts performance across several widely used FL datasets. The authors provide code for reproducibility.
By Minghui Chen, Meirui Jiang, Xin Zhang, Qi Dou, Zehua Wang, Xiaoxiao Li
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
With the widespread deployment of basic models in edge intelligence, communication bandwidth has become a core bottleneck restricting the scalability of federated learning. Although one-shot federated learning alleviates this problem by minimizing communication rounds, existing iterative fine-tuning or knowledge distillation methods still face challenges such as high server-side computational costs and hyperparameter sensitivity.
arXiv:2605. 11165v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) in heterogeneous environments remains challenging because client models often differ in both architecture and data distribution.
By Ben Rachmut, Luise Ge, William Yeoh, Ning Zhang, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
arXiv:2505. 19699v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm that enables clients to collaboratively train models while preserving data privacy.
By Junming Liu, Yanting Gao, Yuqi Li, Siyuan Meng, Yifei Sun, Aoqi Wu, Yirong Chen, Ding Wang, Shiping Wen
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: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
arXiv:2606. 01607v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized approach that enables collaborative model training without exposing raw data.
By Nazmus Shakib Shadin, Aaron Cummings, Xinyue Zhang, Bobin Deng
arXiv:2607. 29071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning of foundation models faces a fundamental resource-asymmetry challenge: the institutions holding the most valuable domain-specific data cannot host billion-parameter models.
By Shengkun Zhu, Jinshan Zeng, Zhihua Allen-Zhao, Mayi Xu, Quanqing Xu, Wei Ren, Qiang Yang, Yang Liu
The paper introduces a latent information sharing scheme for federated learning that mitigates client drift by sharing a small amount of hidden‑layer activations. The authors demonstrate both theoretically and empirically that this approach improves training efficiency while maintaining convergence guarantees and data privacy. Compared to existing methods such as FedProx, SCAFFOLD, FedPVR, FedProto, and SplitFed, the proposed method achieves higher model accuracy within a fixed round budget without adding significant communication overhead.
By Seungjun Lee, Ensieh Khazaei, Dimitrios Hatzinakos, Baturalp Buyukates, Sunwoo Lee