arXiv:2608. 15639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: \textit{Split Federated Learning} (SFL) enables distributed model training by splitting networks between the server and clients.
\textit{Split Federated Learning} (SFL) enables distributed model training by splitting networks between the server and clients. However, under client heterogeneity, the conventional static split stra...
The paper addresses the mismatch between learner and client data distributions in federated learning, noting that traditional client selection methods often ignore this misalignment. It introduces a dynamic, influence-aware client selection framework that uses a small proxy dataset to estimate each client's utility for the learner’s objective, prioritizing informative sources while mitigating noise and heterogeneity. Experiments on CIFAR-10 with heterogeneous partitions show the proposed method outperforms static and dynamic baselines, achieving faster convergence and higher accuracy.
arXiv:2608. 12108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while keeping data local.
The paper introduces FedPFT, a federated learning framework that tackles the feature‑classifier mismatch problem by using personalized prompts processed through a shared self‑attention transformation module. Unlike prior methods that either degrade the feature extractor or address the mismatch only after training, FedPFT aligns local features with the global classifier during training, improving aggregation and model performance. Experiments demonstrate that FedPFT surpasses state‑of‑the‑art methods by up to 5.07%, and gains up to 7.08% when combined with collaborative contrastive learning.
The paper investigates federated learning where each client’s data consists of unknown mixtures of distinct tasks, a scenario termed compound heterogeneity. It shows that when tasks share a common feature geometry, the optimal model for a mixed client is a convex combination of task‑specific models, motivating input‑dependent routing to specialized experts. The authors propose FedSEE, a method that recovers task experts via a convex program and achieves better performance than baselines, reducing negative transfer by 2.9 points overall and 3.7 points for the worst‑served quartile.
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.
arXiv:2609.07192v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Asynchronous federated learning improves scalability by updating the global model from a server-side buffer of client updates as they arrive, rather...
arXiv:2405. 16472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Contemporary AI faces the challenge of balancing generality with user-specific personalization.
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.
Asynchronous federated learning improves scalability by updating the global model from a server-side buffer of client updates as they arrive, rather than waiting for all selected clients to finish. Wh...
arXiv:2607. 28658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated pre-training offers a way to train foundation models on private or distributed data without centralizing the underlying datasets.
FedSAP is a federated learning framework that addresses heterogeneous edge devices by using structured pruning as a budget-constrained tri-state channel allocation. It partitions model channels into a Global pool, pseudo-domain-specific Private pools, and a Dropped state, allowing broadly useful features to be shared while isolating domain-sensitive updates. Experiments on Digits and Office-Caltech datasets show FedSAP achieving higher mean global accuracy than the strongest baseline while supporting up to 80% client pruning ratios.