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:2607. 00275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm with collaboration among multiple clients without sharing data.
By Krishna Harsha Kovelakuntla Huthasana, Alireza Olama, Andreas Lundell
arXiv:2607. 04170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized training without data sharing, but suffers from statistical heterogeneity across clients, leading to client drift, poor generalization, and sharp minima compared to centralized training.
By Liyang Yuan, Yibo Yang, Dandan Guo
arXiv:2608.23286v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Federated learning on non-IID data seeks flat minima to generalize across clients, and existing methods borrow sharpness-aware minimization from cent...
By Wenhao Yan, Fu Kuroda, Yucheng Jin, Zhenke Chen
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:2604. 24012v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning enables a population of clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without exchanging their raw data, but standard algorithms such as FedAvg suffer from slow convergence and high communication and memory costs in heterogeneous, resource-constrained environments.
By Yutong He, Zhengyang Huang, Jiahe Geng, Kun Yuan