arXiv Machine Learning

SpecGradFilter: A Spectral Gradient Filtering Framework for Taming Federated Heterogeneity

arXiv:2607. 04189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is fundamentally challenged by statistical heterogeneity, where non-identically distributed (non-IID) data induces client drift that severely hampers global convergence.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 9

Fixed-Gaussian Spectral Algorithms: Minimax Optimal Rates for Misspecified Learning and Transfer

arXiv:2501. 10870v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The principal objective of this work is twofold within nonparametric regression settings: (1) to establish the minimax optimal convergence rates for fixed-bandwidth Gaussian kernel spectral algorithms when the true regression function resides in a Sobolev space, and (2) to apply Gaussian spectral algorithms for achieving robust and adaptive transfer learning under concept shift.

By Haotian Lin, Matthew Reimherr
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 13

Spectrally Deconfounded Gradient Boosting

arXiv:2607. 09371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flexible machine-learning methods can be sensitive to hidden confounding: they may learn associations induced by unobserved confounders rather than stable signals.

By Andrea Nava, Peter B\"uhlmann, Fabio Sigrist
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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8

ASFR-Net: Adversarial Alignment and Spatio-Frequency Refinement Network for Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Image Change Detection

The core challenge of heterogeneous change detection in remote sensing imagery lies in effectively decoupling genuine land-cover changes from significant modal disparities caused by distinct imaging mechanisms. These intrinsic inconsistencies are prone to introducing pseudo-changes, thereby constraining detection accuracy.