arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

ORDERS: An Empirical Study of Norm-Rank Aggregation for Personalized Federated Learning

ORDERS is a personalized federated learning configuration that combines a shared backbone, private residual adapters, and a classifier, using geometric weights based on descending update norms, feature alignment, and private‑parameter perturbations. In extensive experiments on CIFAR‑10 and Sent140, ORDERS achieves slightly higher mean client accuracy than baseline methods, with a 5.47% reduction in parameter payload. Ablation studies show limited, dataset‑dependent benefits from norm ranking and alignment, and no clear advantage from perturbations.

By Koffka Khan
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 23

Is High Local Accuracy Enough? Geometric Consensus with Support-Adaptive Statistical Personalization for Federated Learning

The paper introduces FedGRC, a federated learning framework that enhances both global recognition and personalization for heterogeneous clients. It combines Consensus‑Guided Representation Learning, Multilayer Metric Synthesis, and Support‑Adaptive Shrinkage Personalization to address failures on rare or unseen classes. Experiments on CIFAR‑10, CIFAR‑100, and the FedRS dataset show that FedGRC outperforms 21 baseline methods, improving global accuracy and personalization floors by over 2% in several settings.

By Junyu Lin, Bosong Qi, Pengcheng Shi, Jiayuan Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

From Task Mixtures to Specialized Experts

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.

By Hojat Allah Salehi, Mehrdad Mahdavi, Andrew Arash Mahyari, M. Hadi Amini
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

PACE: Propagation-Aware Collaborative Correction for One-Shot Personalized Federated Graph Learning

PACE introduces a propagation‑aware collaborative correction for one‑shot personalized federated graph learning. Each client sends a rank‑r update and a diagonal sketch of message moments, allowing the server to construct a correction that anchors to the receiver’s local model. A convex negative‑log‑likelihood calibration selects a single coefficient to blend local and external logits, improving accuracy and weighted‑F1 on most datasets while preserving local predictions when the correction is unhelpful.

By Ruizhe Huang, Chengran Li, Xiaochuan Shi