Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data, making it promising for leveraging massive devices in communication networks. In distillat...
FedCC is a new algorithm for distillation-based federated learning that tackles label distribution skew by allowing clients to mark ambiguous samples as 'unknown' instead of forcing a potentially wrong classification. By adding this extra class and calibrating pseudo-labels on a public dataset, FedCC balances confidence across majority and minority classes. Experiments show that FedCC outperforms existing methods, achieving 67.3% accuracy even when each client has data from only one of ten classes, whereas baselines drop to near-random performance.
By Wenxuan Ye, Onur Ayan, Xueli An, Georg Carle
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
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.
By Xinghao Wu, Xuefeng Liu, Jianwei Niu, Guogang Zhu, Mingjia Shi, Shaojie Tang, Jing Yuan
arXiv:2606. 13748v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized federated learning (PFL) is one of the important approaches in federated learning for addressing statistical heterogeneity while enabling client-specific adaptation.
By Kannanthodath Induchoodan Ajay Menon, Christian Prehofer, Yunfei Xu, Toru Hirano
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
Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed client devices while preserving data privacy. However, FL faces significant challenges due to data heterogeneity, particularly in terms of label distribution skewness and variations in dataset sizes, which can lead to biased model updates and hinder convergence.
arXiv:2608. 09221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed client devices while preserving data privacy.
By Radwan Selo, Majid Kundroo, Taehong Kim
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.
By Yiming Xie, Lili Su, Ningfang Mi
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: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:2607. 06653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across institutions without sharing sensitive patient data.
By Kien Le, Joseph Lindley, Quoc Bao Phan, Tuy Tan Nguyen