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
arXiv:2607. 01474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class imbalance poses a critical challenge in federated learning (FL), where underrepresented classes suffer from poor predictive performance yet cannot be addressed by standard centralized techniques due to privacy and heterogeneity constraints.
By Haemin Park, Diego Klabjan, Martin W. Braun, Xiuqi Li, Balakrishnan Ananthanarayanan
arXiv:2606. 14416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) often struggles with generalization due to heterogeneous client data.
By Dongwon Kim, Donghee Kim, Sung Kuk Shyn, Kwangsu Kim
arXiv:2608. 06563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning and optimization have advanced together, with practical demands motivating new theory and theoretical breakthroughs enabling new applications.
By Grigory Malinovsky
arXiv:2601. 19788v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Continual Learning (FCL) leverages inter-client collaboration to better balance new knowledge acquisition and old knowledge retention on non-stationary data.
By Sixing Tan, Xianmin Liu
arXiv:2606. 06154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated fine-tuning of foundation models using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) offers a communication efficient solution for distributed learning.
By Sunny Gupta, Shambhavi Shanker, Amit Sethi
arXiv:2508. 05157v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, offering strong privacy benefits.
By Thinh Nguyen, Le Huy Khiem, Van-Tuan Tran, Khoa D Doan, Nitesh V Chawla, Kok-Seng Wong
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:2606. 15625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The continuous scaling of large language models (LLMs) incurs prohibitive computational costs, making Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) a scalable alternative for efficient fine-tuning via sparse activation.
By Yijun Lu, Zihan Fang, Pengpeng Qiao, Zheng Lin, Jing Yang, Yuxin Zhang, Por Lip Yee, Zhe Chen, Jun Luo
arXiv:2606. 28835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a promising distributed machine learning paradigm.
By Wenhao Yuan, Chenchen Lin, Jian Chen, Jinfeng Xu, Zewei Liu, Edith Cheuk Han Ngai
arXiv:2512. 12737v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server, but converges slowly under statistical heterogeneity.
By Li Xia
arXiv:2502. 08829v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) with non-IID data often degrades client performance below local training baselines.
By Ahmed Elhussein, Florent Pollet, Gamze G\"ursoy