The Dynamics of Collapse and Recovery in Clustered Federated Learning
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arXiv:2610.28565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clustered federated learning (CFL) can suffer from cluster collapse. In particular, under unfavorable initialization, early client assignments concentr...
The paper introduces FedSWE, a federated learning algorithm designed to handle non‑stationary and heterogeneous client availability without requiring prior real‑time knowledge of which devices are online. FedSWE compensates for missed computations, stabilizes global updates, and mixes local updates through implicit gossiping, all while adding only modest memory and computational overhead. The authors prove that FedSWE converges to a stationary point for non‑convex objectives and achieves linear speedup in certain scenarios, and they validate these claims with experiments on real‑world datasets featuring diverse client unavailability patterns.
arXiv:2606. 30499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning often suffers under non-independently and identically distributed data, where a single global model may fail to represent the diversity of client distributions.
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The paper introduces the Viability‑constrained Behavioral Steering Attack (V‑BSA), a new attack strategy for federated reinforcement learning that targets the timing of interventions rather than just the construction of malicious updates. By selecting sparse intervention states based on local policy uncertainty and applying envelope‑constrained steering, V‑BSA can significantly degrade performance on discrete‑action benchmarks while using far fewer interventions than traditional dense poisoning attacks. The study demonstrates that the specific states at which interventions occur constitute a distinct and critical dimension of robustness in sequential decision‑making settings.