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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,524 Views
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New Generation Federated Learning

  • Boyuan Li,
  • Shengbo Chen and
  • Zihao Peng

3 November 2022

With the development of the Internet of things (IoT), federated learning (FL) has received increasing attention as a distributed machine learning (ML) framework that does not require data exchange. However, current FL frameworks follow an idealized s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Federated and Distributed Learning in IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,830 Views
14 Pages

4 May 2024

Traditional federated learning relies heavily on mature datasets, which typically consist of large volumes of uniformly distributed data. While acquiring extensive datasets is relatively straightforward in academic research, it becomes prohibitively...

  • Article
  • Open Access
161 Citations
15,735 Views
14 Pages

Federated Quantum Machine Learning

  • Samuel Yen-Chi Chen and
  • Shinjae Yoo

13 April 2021

Distributed training across several quantum computers could significantly improve the training time and if we could share the learned model, not the data, it could potentially improve the data privacy as the training would happen where the data is lo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Technologies (NISQ))
  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
17,626 Views
33 Pages

Blockchain-Based Federated Learning: A Survey and New Perspectives

  • Weiguang Ning,
  • Yingjuan Zhu,
  • Caixia Song,
  • Hongxia Li,
  • Lihui Zhu,
  • Jinbao Xie,
  • Tianyu Chen,
  • Tong Xu,
  • Xi Xu and
  • Jiwei Gao

16 October 2024

Federated learning, as a novel distributed machine learning mode, enables the training of machine learning models on multiple devices while ensuring data privacy. However, the existence of single-point-of-failure bottlenecks, malicious threats, scala...

  • Review
  • Open Access
138 Citations
23,031 Views
21 Pages

Multimodal Federated Learning: A Survey

  • Liwei Che,
  • Jiaqi Wang,
  • Yao Zhou and
  • Fenglong Ma

6 August 2023

Federated learning (FL), which provides a collaborative training scheme for distributed data sources with privacy concerns, has become a burgeoning and attractive research area. Most existing FL studies focus on taking unimodal data, such as image an...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
952 Views
15 Pages

Federated Learning for Surface Roughness

  • Kai-Lun Cheng,
  • Yu-Hung Ting,
  • Wen-Ren Jong,
  • Shia-Chung Chen and
  • Zhe-Wei Zhou

23 June 2025

This study proposes a federated learning-based real-time surface roughness prediction framework for WEDM to address issues of empirical parameter tuning and data privacy. By sharing only the model parameters, cross-machine training was enabled withou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,187 Views
19 Pages

8 February 2025

Federated learning has attracted widespread attention due to its strong capabilities of privacy protection, making it a powerful supporting technology for addressing data silos in the future. However, federated learning still lags significantly behin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,599 Views
13 Pages

Probabilistic Predictions with Federated Learning

  • Adam Thor Thorgeirsson and
  • Frank Gauterin

30 December 2020

Probabilistic predictions with machine learning are important in many applications. These are commonly done with Bayesian learning algorithms. However, Bayesian learning methods are computationally expensive in comparison with non-Bayesian methods. F...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,874 Views
20 Pages

Building Trusted Federated Learning on Blockchain

  • Yustus Eko Oktian,
  • Brian Stanley and
  • Sang-Gon Lee

8 July 2022

Federated learning enables multiple users to collaboratively train a global model using the users’ private data on users’ local machines. This way, users are not required to share their training data with other parties, maintaining user p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain-Enabled Technology for IoT Security, Privacy and Trust)
  • Review
  • Open Access
87 Citations
9,758 Views
20 Pages

A Review of Federated Learning in Agriculture

  • Krista Rizman Žalik and
  • Mitja Žalik

2 December 2023

Federated learning (FL), with the aim of training machine learning models using data and computational resources on edge devices without sharing raw local data, is essential for improving agricultural management and smart agriculture. This study is a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Sensors Technology in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,267 Views
21 Pages

A Personalized Federated Learning Algorithm Based on Dynamic Weight Allocation

  • Yazhi Liu,
  • Siwei Li,
  • Wei Li,
  • Hui Qian and
  • Haonan Xia

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning paradigm. However, due to client data heterogeneity, the global model trained by a traditional federated averaging algorithm often exhibits poor generalization ability. To mitiga...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
8,295 Views
14 Pages

Communication-Efficient Vertical Federated Learning

  • Afsana Khan,
  • Marijn ten Thij and
  • Anna Wilbik

4 August 2022

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed learning approach that allows multiple parties to jointly build machine learning models without disclosing sensitive data. Although FL has solved the problem of collaboration without comprom...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,886 Views
15 Pages

BACombo—Bandwidth-Aware Decentralized Federated Learning

  • Jingyan Jiang,
  • Liang Hu,
  • Chenghao Hu,
  • Jiate Liu and
  • Zhi Wang

The emerging concern about data privacy and security has motivated the proposal of federated learning. Federated learning allows computing nodes to only synchronize the locally- trained models instead of their original data in distributed training. C...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,347 Views
39 Pages

Federated learning (FL) is an advanced distributed machine learning method that effectively solves the data silo problem. With the increasing popularity of federated learning and the growing importance of privacy protection, federated learning method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
224 Views
25 Pages

17 August 2026

Federated clustering, an essential extension of centralized clustering for federated scenarios, enables multiple data-holding clients to collaboratively group data while keeping their data locally. In centralized scenarios, clustering driven by repre...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,529 Views
12 Pages

Machine learning, particularly using neural networks, is now widely adopted in practice even with the IoT paradigm; however, training neural networks at the edge, on IoT devices, remains elusive, mainly due to computational requirements. Furthermore,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pervasive Computing in IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,285 Views
16 Pages

24 April 2022

Residential-level short-term load forecasting (STLF) is significant for power system operation. Data-driven forecasting models, especially machine-learning-based models, are sensitive to the amount of data. However, privacy and security concerns rais...

(This article belongs to the Topic IoT for Energy Management Systems and Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,503 Views
18 Pages

As Internet traffic classification is a typical problem for ISPs or mobile carriers, there have been a lot of studies based on statistical packet header information, deep packet inspection, or machine learning. Due to recent advances in end-to-end en...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Applications in IoT and Mobile Wireless Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,247 Views
19 Pages

Towards Mobile Federated Learning with Unreliable Participants and Selective Aggregation

  • Leonardo Esteves,
  • David Portugal,
  • Paulo Peixoto and
  • Gabriel Falcao

28 February 2023

Recent advances in artificial intelligence algorithms are leveraging massive amounts of data to optimize, refine, and improve existing solutions in critical areas such as healthcare, autonomous vehicles, robotics, social media, or human resources. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Federated and Transfer Learning Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,357 Views
21 Pages

Federated learning (FL) has garnered significant attention as a novel machine learning technique that enables collaborative training among multiple parties without exposing raw local data. In comparison to traditional neural networks or linear models...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Blockchains)
  • Article
  • Open Access
228 Views
26 Pages

A Meta-Learning-Based Aggregation Strategy for Heterogeneous Federated Learning Scenarios

  • Sergio Pérez-Picazo,
  • Hiram Galeana-Zapién and
  • Edwin Aldana-Bobadilla

31 August 2026

Federated learning relies on aggregation schemes that assume all participants train models with identical architectures and a common parameter initialization. While this enables parameter-averaging strategies such as Federated Averaging, it also impo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Information Systems)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
84 Citations
25,221 Views
9 Pages

9 February 2024

Recent advancements in deep learning for healthcare and computer-aided laboratory services have sparked a renewed interest in making medical data more accessible. Elevating the quality of healthcare services and delivering improved patient care neces...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Eng. Proc., 2023, RAiSE-2023)
  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
14,272 Views
18 Pages

A Detailed Survey on Federated Learning Attacks and Defenses

  • Hira Shahzadi Sikandar,
  • Huda Waheed,
  • Sibgha Tahir,
  • Saif U. R. Malik and
  • Waqas Rafique

A traditional centralized method of training AI models has been put to the test by the emergence of data stores and public privacy concerns. To overcome these issues, the federated learning (FL) approach was introduced. FL employs a privacy-by-design...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
12,842 Views
15 Pages

On-Device Training of Machine Learning Models on Microcontrollers with Federated Learning

  • Nil Llisterri Giménez,
  • Marc Monfort Grau,
  • Roger Pueyo Centelles and
  • Felix Freitag

14 February 2022

Recent progress in machine learning frameworks has made it possible to now perform inference with models using cheap, tiny microcontrollers. Training of machine learning models for these tiny devices, however, is typically done separately on powerful...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,234 Views
14 Pages

16 July 2023

Dynamic access to the spectrum is essential for radiocommunication and its limited spectrum resources. The key element of dynamic spectrum access systems is most often effective spectrum occupancy detection. In many cases, machine learning algorithms...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,864 Views
35 Pages

A Review of Federated Meta-Learning and Its Application in Cyberspace Security

  • Fengchun Liu,
  • Meng Li,
  • Xiaoxiao Liu,
  • Tao Xue,
  • Jing Ren and
  • Chunying Zhang

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the application of federated learning (FL) in various aspects of cyberspace security, such as intrusion detection, privacy protection, and anomaly detection. However, the robustness of federated...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Analysis and Security Calculation of Multisource Data)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
7,622 Views
16 Pages

Enhancing Privacy-Preserving Intrusion Detection through Federated Learning

  • Ammar Alazab,
  • Ansam Khraisat,
  • Sarabjot Singh and
  • Tony Jan

Detecting anomalies, intrusions, and security threats in the network (including Internet of Things) traffic necessitates the processing of large volumes of sensitive data, which raises concerns about privacy and security. Federated learning, a distri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends and Methods in Communication Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,100 Views
14 Pages

FLaMAS: Federated Learning Based on a SPADE MAS

  • Jaime Rincon,
  • Vicente Julian and
  • Carlos Carrascosa

6 April 2022

In recent years federated learning has emerged as a new paradigm for training machine learning models oriented to distributed systems. The main idea is that each node of a distributed system independently trains a model and shares only model paramete...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Agent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,206 Views
14 Pages

Defense Scheme of Federated Learning Based on GAN

  • Qing Zhang,
  • Ping Zhang,
  • Wenlong Lu,
  • Xiaoyu Zhou and
  • An Bao

Federated learning (FL), as a distributed learning mechanism, can have model training completed without directly uploading original data, effectively reducing the risk of privacy leakage. However, through the shared gradient information, research sho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy for AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,933 Views
25 Pages

Personalized Federated Multi-Task Learning over Wireless Fading Channels

  • Matin Mortaheb,
  • Cemil Vahapoglu and
  • Sennur Ulukus

9 November 2022

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a paradigm to learn multiple tasks simultaneously by utilizing a shared network, in which a distinct header network is further tailored for fine-tuning for each distinct task. Personalized federated learning (PFL) can be...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gradient Methods for Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,661 Views
13 Pages

Federated Learning with Dynamic Model Exchange

  • Hannes Hilberger,
  • Sten Hanke and
  • Markus Bödenler

Large amounts of data are needed to train accurate robust machine learning models, but the acquisition of these data is complicated due to strict regulations. While many business sectors often have unused data silos, researchers face the problem of n...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
11,328 Views
16 Pages

Federated Learning for Data Analytics in Education

  • Christian Fachola,
  • Agustín Tornaría,
  • Paola Bermolen,
  • Germán Capdehourat,
  • Lorena Etcheverry and
  • María Inés Fariello

20 February 2023

Federated learning techniques aim to train and build machine learning models based on distributed datasets across multiple devices while avoiding data leakage. The main idea is to perform training on remote devices or isolated data centers without tr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Mining and Computational Intelligence for E-learning and Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,967 Views
15 Pages

Background: Different treatments may be required for paroxysmal versus non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. However, they may be difficult to distinguish on an electrocardiogram (ECG). Machine learning methods may aid in differentiating these conditio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,561 Views
17 Pages

2 June 2024

This article explores the possibilities for federated learning with a deep learning method as a basic approach to train detection models for fake news recognition. Federated learning is the key issue in this research because this kind of learning mak...

(This article belongs to the Collection Artificial Intelligence in Sensors Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,507 Views
27 Pages

Federated Reinforcement Learning in IoT: Applications, Opportunities and Open Challenges

  • Euclides Carlos Pinto Neto,
  • Somayeh Sadeghi,
  • Xichen Zhang and
  • Sajjad Dadkhah

26 May 2023

The internet of things (IoT) represents a disruptive concept that has been changing society in several ways. There have been several successful applications of IoT in the industry. For example, in transportation systems, the novel internet of vehicle...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
150 Citations
24,054 Views
15 Pages

Privacy and Security in Federated Learning: A Survey

  • Rémi Gosselin,
  • Loïc Vieu,
  • Faiza Loukil and
  • Alexandre Benoit

1 October 2022

In recent years, privacy concerns have become a serious issue for companies wishing to protect economic models and comply with end-user expectations. In the same vein, some countries now impose, by law, constraints on data use and protection. Such co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Federated and Transfer Learning Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,065 Views
25 Pages

3 May 2026

With the rapid evolution of digital payment systems and financial services, the number of fraudulent transactions is increasing, and risks are becoming increasingly critical. Although several fraud detection approaches have been proposed, they remain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,866 Views
20 Pages

23 December 2024

Federated learning ensures the privacy of clients by conducting distributed training on individual client devices and sharing only the model weights with a central server. However, in real-world scenarios, especially in IoT scenarios where devices ha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Internet of Things (IoT) and Its Application in Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,391 Views
14 Pages

Bidirectional Decoupled Distillation for Heterogeneous Federated Learning

  • Wenshuai Song,
  • Mengwei Yan,
  • Xinze Li and
  • Longfei Han

5 September 2024

Federated learning enables multiple devices to collaboratively train a high-performance model on the central server while keeping their data on the devices themselves. However, due to the significant variability in data distribution across devices, t...

(This article belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
111 Citations
10,907 Views
39 Pages

Reviewing Federated Machine Learning and Its Use in Diseases Prediction

  • Mohammad Moshawrab,
  • Mehdi Adda,
  • Abdenour Bouzouane,
  • Hussein Ibrahim and
  • Ali Raad

13 February 2023

Machine learning (ML) has succeeded in improving our daily routines by enabling automation and improved decision making in a variety of industries such as healthcare, finance, and transportation, resulting in increased efficiency and production. Howe...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,227 Views
17 Pages

A Federated Learning Architecture for Bird Species Classification in Wetlands

  • David Mulero-Pérez,
  • Javier Rodriguez-Juan,
  • Tamai Ramirez-Gordillo,
  • Manuel Benavent-Lledo,
  • Pablo Ruiz-Ponce,
  • David Ortiz-Perez,
  • Hugo Hernandez-Lopez,
  • Anatoli Iarovikov,
  • Jose Garcia-Rodriguez and
  • Bamidele Adebisi
  • + 3 authors

Federated learning allows models to be trained on edge devices with local data, eliminating the need to share data with a central server. This significantly reduces the amount of data transferred from edge devices to central servers, which is particu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Federated Learning: Applications and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,356 Views
19 Pages

Explainable Clustered Federated Learning for Solar Energy Forecasting

  • Syed Saqib Ali,
  • Mazhar Ali,
  • Dost Muhammad Saqib Bhatti and
  • Bong Jun Choi

7 May 2025

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is a well-established and dynamic field defined by an active research community that has developed numerous effective methods for explaining and interpreting the predictions of advanced machine learning model...

(This article belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,236 Views
31 Pages

27 February 2025

As an important branch of machine learning, federated learning still suffers from statistical heterogeneity. Therefore, personalized federated learning (PFL) is proposed to deal with this obstacle. However, the privacy of local and global gradients i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Communication and Privacy in Internet of Things: Symmetry and Advances — Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,598 Views
15 Pages

Advancing Federated Learning through Verifiable Computations and Homomorphic Encryption

  • Bingxue Zhang,
  • Guangguang Lu,
  • Pengpeng Qiu,
  • Xumin Gui and
  • Yang Shi

16 November 2023

Federated learning, as one of the three main technical routes for privacy computing, has been widely studied and applied in both academia and industry. However, malicious nodes may tamper with the algorithm execution process or submit false learning...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,587 Views
22 Pages

Introducing a Quality-Driven Approach for Federated Learning

  • Muhammad Usman,
  • Mario Luca Bernardi and
  • Marta Cimitile

13 May 2025

The advancement of pervasive systems has made distributed real-world data across multiple devices increasingly valuable for training machine learning models. Traditional centralized learning approaches face limitations such as data security concerns...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,403 Views
31 Pages

Federated Learning Frameworks for Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Comparative Adaptation Analysis

  • Mario Steven Vela Romo,
  • Carolina Tripp-Barba,
  • Nathaly Orozco Garzón,
  • Pablo Barbecho,
  • Xavier Calderón Hinojosa and
  • Luis Urquiza-Aguiar

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have progressively incorporated machine learning to optimize traffic efficiency, enhance safety, and improve real-time decision-making. However, the traditional centralized machine learning (ML) paradigm faces...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data and AI Services for Sustainable Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,280 Views
15 Pages

Federated Learning for Collaborative Robotics: A ROS 2-Based Approach

  • Gerardo M. Gutierrez,
  • Jaime A. Rincon and
  • Vicente Julian

This paper presents a federated learning framework for multi-agent robotic systems, leveraging the ROS 2 framework to enable decentralized collaboration in both simulated and real-world environments. Traditional centralized machine learning approache...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Architectures for Hybrid Edge Analytics Models on Adaptive Smart Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,271 Views
26 Pages

Vertically Federated Learning with Correlated Differential Privacy

  • Jianzhe Zhao,
  • Jiayi Wang,
  • Zhaocheng Li,
  • Weiting Yuan and
  • Stan Matwin

29 November 2022

Federated learning (FL) aims to address the challenges of data silos and privacy protection in artificial intelligence. Vertically federated learning (VFL) with independent feature spaces and overlapping ID spaces can capture more knowledge and facil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Based on Data Mining)
  • Review
  • Open Access
310 Citations
20,548 Views
29 Pages

Federated Learning in Smart City Sensing: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Ji Chu Jiang,
  • Burak Kantarci,
  • Sema Oktug and
  • Tolga Soyata

31 October 2020

Smart Cities sensing is an emerging paradigm to facilitate the transition into smart city services. The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the widespread use of mobile devices with computing and sensing capabilities has motivated applications...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,552 Views
18 Pages

21 February 2022

The existing federated learning framework is based on the centralized model coordinator, which still faces serious security challenges such as device differentiated computing power, single point of failure, poor privacy, and lack of Byzantine fault t...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

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