Decentralized Gossip Learning and Federated Averaging for Histopathology Image Classification
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FedDRAW introduces a new server‑side aggregation technique for federated learning called Federated Dual Reputation Annealing Weighting. It blends a data‑size prior with cosine similarity between client and global model parameters, using two annealing schedules to shift weight from size to similarity and to gradually relax selectivity. Experiments on 12 simulated client partitions of CheXpert and ChestMNIST datasets show FedDRAW outperforms seven federated baselines in AUC and geometric mean of sensitivity and specificity, with statistically significant results.
arXiv:2609.35792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial predictive maintenance increasingly depends on learning from equipment spread across sites whose sensor data cannot easily be pooled. Federa...
arXiv:2505. 09854v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As end-user device capability increases and demand for intelligent services at the Internet's edge rises, distributed learning has emerged as a key enabling technology for the intelligent edge.
The paper evaluates federated learning with Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) for fine‑tuning the BiomedCLIP vision‑language model on chest X‑ray classification across four international cohorts. Federated LoRA improves shared‑class AUC from 0.687 to 0.802, outperforming isolated single‑cohort training and approaching a centralized reference. The study shows that SVD‑based product‑space aggregation (FlexLoRA) is crucial for performance, while FedProx offers no advantage over FedAvg in this setting.
OmniMed‑FL is a multimodal federated learning framework that fuses chest radiographs and synthetic patient notes to classify five clinical conditions. The study benchmarks eight fusion strategies, three initializations, and four missing‑text imputation rules across 3–20 hospital clients under non‑IID Dirichlet partitioning, showing that federated approaches (FedAvg, FedProx, SCAFFOLD‑AdamW) outperform local‑only training. Multimodal fusion consistently improves performance, achieving macro‑F1 scores up to 0.956 on the synthetic corpus and 0.906 on the radiograph corpus.
arXiv:2608. 03079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast core needle biopsy (CNB) is central to breast cancer diagnosis yet remains challenging because limited tissue sampling, lesion heterogeneity, and subtle morphologic overlap can obscure subtype distinctions.