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Advances in Mathematical Methods for Distributed Learning and High-Dimensional Data Analysis

A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "D1: Probability and Statistics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2025 | Viewed by 1554

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Keren Li

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Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
Interests: statistical learning; distributed learning; federated learning; deep learning; generalized linear models; graphical models; variable selection methods
Prof. Dr. Ji-Ping Wang

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1. Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
2. NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Interests: statistical applications in bioinformatics; computational biology
Dr. Baocheng Geng

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Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
Interests: human decision making; distributed detection and information fusion; optimization for signal processing and machine learning; Internet of Things

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite contributions to our upcoming Special Issue of Mathematics, entitled "Advances in Mathematical Methods for Distributed Learning and High-Dimensional Data Analysis". This Issue seeks to delve into the intricate intersection of distributed learning and high-dimensional data analysis, which presents both unique challenges and groundbreaking opportunities at the vanguard of mathematical research. The importance of this research area lies in its potential to unlock new understandings and applications in fields ranging from computational biology to artificial intelligence, reflecting the evolving complexity of data and computation in the modern world.

This Special Issue aims to address both the theoretical underpinnings of this intersection and its practical implementations, while concurrently advancing the journal’s commitment to advancing significant mathematical breakthroughs. Our goal is to collate research that showcases innovative mathematical models, algorithms, and applications pertinent to distributed learning and high-dimensional data analysis. If successful, this collection will offer a comprehensive perspective on the mathematical challenges and solutions in these intertwined fields, with potential to be published in book form.

In this Special Issue, we welcome original research articles and reviews that cover a range of topics within our scope. Potential themes for submissions include, but are not limited to:

  • Theoretical and practical challenges in merging distributed learning with high-dimensional data.
  • Development of innovative mathematical models and algorithms for distributed environments and complex data structures.
  • Exploration of deep learning techniques within the context of distributed learning and high-dimensional data.
  • Empirical case studies demonstrating the real-world application of these theoretical concepts.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Keren Li
Prof. Dr. Ji-Ping Wang
Dr. Baocheng Geng
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Mathematics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • distributed learning
  • high-dimensional data inference
  • high-dimensional data analysis
  • variable selection
  • federated learning
  • online learning
  • deep learning
  • data privacy
  • big data analytics
  • complex data structures

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Distributed Collaborative Learning with Representative Knowledge Sharing
by Joseph Casey, Qianjiao Chen, Mengchen Fan, Baocheng Geng, Roman Shterenberg, Zhong Chen and Keren Li
Mathematics 2025, 13(6), 1004; https://doi.org/10.3390/math13061004 - 19 Mar 2025
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Distributed Collaborative Learning (DCL) addresses critical challenges in privacy-aware machine learning by enabling indirect knowledge transfer across nodes with heterogeneous feature distributions. Unlike conventional federated learning approaches, DCL assumes non-IID data and prediction task distributions that span beyond local training data, requiring selective [...] Read more.
Distributed Collaborative Learning (DCL) addresses critical challenges in privacy-aware machine learning by enabling indirect knowledge transfer across nodes with heterogeneous feature distributions. Unlike conventional federated learning approaches, DCL assumes non-IID data and prediction task distributions that span beyond local training data, requiring selective collaboration to achieve generalization. In this work, we propose a novel collaborative transfer learning (CTL) framework that utilizes representative datasets and adaptive distillation weights to facilitate efficient and privacy-preserving collaboration. By leveraging Energy Coefficients to quantify node similarity, CTL dynamically selects optimal collaborators and refines local models through knowledge distillation on shared representative datasets. Simulations demonstrate the efficacy of CTL in improving prediction accuracy across diverse tasks while balancing trade-offs between local and global performance. Furthermore, we explore the impact of data spread and dispersion on collaboration, highlighting the importance of tailored node alignment. This framework provides a scalable foundation for cross-domain generalization in distributed machine learning. Full article
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DIAFM: An Improved and Novel Approach for Incremental Frequent Itemset Mining
by Mohsin Shaikh, Sabina Akram, Jawad Khan, Shah Khalid and Youngmoon Lee
Mathematics 2024, 12(24), 3930; https://doi.org/10.3390/math12243930 - 13 Dec 2024
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Traditional approaches to data mining are generally designed for small, centralized, and static datasets. However, when a dataset grows at an enormous rate, the algorithms become infeasible in terms of huge consumption of computational and I/O resources. Frequent itemset mining (FIM) is one [...] Read more.
Traditional approaches to data mining are generally designed for small, centralized, and static datasets. However, when a dataset grows at an enormous rate, the algorithms become infeasible in terms of huge consumption of computational and I/O resources. Frequent itemset mining (FIM) is one of the key algorithms in data mining and finds applications in a variety of domains; however, traditional algorithms do face problems in efficiently processing large and dynamic datasets. This research introduces a distributed incremental approximation frequent itemset mining (DIAFM) algorithm that tackles the mentioned challenges using shard-based approximation within the MapReduce framework. DIAFM minimizes the computational overhead of a program by reducing dataset scans, bypassing exact support checks, and incorporating shard-level error thresholds for an appropriate trade-off between efficiency and accuracy. Extensive experiments have demonstrated that DIAFM reduces runtime by 40–60% compared to traditional methods with losses in accuracy within 1–5%, even for datasets over 500,000 transactions. Its incremental nature ensures that new data increments are handled efficiently without needing to reprocess the entire dataset, making it particularly suitable for real-time, large-scale applications such as transaction analysis and IoT data streams. These results demonstrate the scalability, robustness, and practical applicability of DIAFM and establish it as a competitive and efficient solution for mining frequent itemsets in distributed, dynamic environments. Full article
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