arXiv Machine Learning

Distributed Learning as a Service: The Developer's Perspective

The paper introduces Distributed Learning as a Service (DLaaS), a platform that lets developers launch distributed/federated learning jobs through a single admin dashboard. It offers declarative options such as Differential Privacy, Split Learning, Hierarchical Aggregation, and Knowledge Distillation without requiring changes to client code. The authors demonstrate the full service lifecycle on an industrial smart‑home Wake‑up Word task using the Ok Aura dataset, showing live operation across Android clients and Dockerized aggregators, and releasing the source code and video walkthroughs.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 9

Robust Federated Learning Under Real-World Client Churn

arXiv:2607. 06979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables training shared models on private, on-device data, but production deployments remain constrained to slow, multi-day refresh cycles due to the complexity of coordinating massive client populations.

By Dhruv Garg, Neha Lakhani, Debopam Sanyal, Myungjin Lee, Alexey Tumanov, Ada Gavrilovska
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Federated Learning via Explainable Adaptive Differential Privacy

arXiv:2509. 10691v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decentralized federated learning enables collaborative model training without a central server, but shared model updates can still leak sensitive information through inversion, reconstruction, and membership inference attacks.

By Fardin Jalil Piran, Zhiling Chen, Yang Zhang, Qianyu Zhou, Jiong Tang, Farhad Imani
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Quantization in Federated Learning: Methods, Challenges and Future Directions

arXiv:2606. 26822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) has become a foundational paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed intelligence, yet its scalability remains fundamentally constrained by communication bottlenecks, device heterogeneity, and the challenges of training under statistically non-IID data.

By Farwa Ikram, Dipanwita Thakur, Antonella Guzzo, Giancarlo Fortino
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

IntraShuffler: A Privacy Preserving Framework for Heterogeneous DP Federated Learning

Heterogeneous Differential Privacy (HDP) in Federated Learning (FL) allows clients to select individual privacy budgets ($\varepsilon_i$) according to institutional policies and data sensitivity. In practice, many HDP-FL systems employ $\varepsilon$-aware server aggregation to improve model utility by re-weighting client updates according to their declared privacy budgets.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Cluster-Aware Over-the-Air Federated Learning with Energy-Harvesting Devices: From Global Training to Model Personalization

arXiv:2608. 01426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables distributed optimization and learning across decentralized edge devices while preserving data privacy, but its performance is fundamentally constrained by heterogeneous data distributions, limited communication resources, and energy availability.

By Furkan Bagci, Busra Tegin, Mohammad Kazemi, Tolga M. Duman
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 3

Private Computation Space: Experience with Trusted Multi-Cluster Federated Learning for Agriculture

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 Machine Learning
1d ago

Latent Information Sharing for Accelerating Federated Learning

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