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
Federated learning (FL) is a promising paradigm of machine learning, which preserves user privacy by enabling learning without sharing raw data with a cloud server. Straggling clients have been a prob...
arXiv:2608. 02250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning framework where multiple clients perform local training and a server aggregates the locally updated models.
By Yuan-Heng Tsai, Li-Hsing Yen, Yan-Wei Chen
arXiv:2609.39250v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated learning (FL) is a promising paradigm of machine learning, which preserves user privacy by enabling learning without sharing raw data with a...
By Muzaffer Citir, Hiroki Nishikawa, Sangyoung Park
The paper proposes a new federated learning approach called FedALS that reduces communication costs by varying aggregation frequencies across model layers. It derives tighter generalization bounds for one‑round and multi‑round federated learning, linking these bounds to local updates and data heterogeneity. Based on representation‑learning insights, the authors argue that infrequent aggregation of early layers and more frequent aggregation of final layers yields more generalizable models, especially in non‑iid settings, and demonstrate the method’s effectiveness experimentally.
By Peyman Gholami, Hulya Seferoglu
arXiv:2408. 05886v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Heterogeneous system configurations of distributed clients connected to the central server (CS) via a time-varying wireless network pose significant challenges for popular distributed machine learning (ML) algorithms such as federated learning (FL).
By Ferdous Pervej, Minseok Choi, Andreas F. Molisch