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20192026
most citedFedML: A Research Library and Benchmark for Federated Machine Learning

354 citations · 1.4k across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

cs.DC2026

Understanding Communication Backends in Cross-Silo Federated Learning

Amir Ziashahabi, Chaoyang He, Salman Avestimehr

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a practical means for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning. FL's versatile design makes it suitable for various training settings,…

cs.LG2023★ 8 cited

A Data-Free Approach to Mitigate Catastrophic Forgetting in Federated Class Incremental Learning for Vision Tasks

Sara Babakniya, Zalan Fabian, Chaoyang He +2

Deep learning models often suffer from forgetting previously learned information when trained on new data. This problem is exacerbated in federated learning (FL), where the data is…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Kick Bad Guys Out! Conditionally Activated Anomaly Detection in Federated Learning with Zero-Knowledge Proof Verification

Shanshan Han, Wenxuan Wu, Baturalp Buyukates +4

Federated Learning (FL) systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks, such as model poisoning attacks and backdoor attacks. Existing defense mechanisms face critical limitations…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Don't Memorize; Mimic The Past: Federated Class Incremental Learning Without Episodic Memory

Sara Babakniya, Zalan Fabian, Chaoyang He +2

Deep learning models are prone to forgetting information learned in the past when trained on new data. This problem becomes even more pronounced in the context of federated learnin…

cs.DC2023★ 1 cited

Privacy-Preserving Federated Heavy Hitter Analytics for Non-IID Data

Jiaqi Shao, Shanshan Han, Chaoyang He +1

Federated heavy-hitter analytics involves the identification of the most frequent items within distributed data. Existing methods for this task often encounter challenges such as c…

cs.CR2023

FedSecurity: Benchmarking Attacks and Defenses in Federated Learning and Federated LLMs

Shanshan Han, Baturalp Buyukates, Zijian Hu +13

This paper introduces FedSecurity, an end-to-end benchmark that serves as a supplementary component of the FedML library for simulating adversarial attacks and corresponding defens…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

FedML Parrot: A Scalable Federated Learning System via Heterogeneity-aware Scheduling on Sequential and Hierarchical Training

Zhenheng Tang, Xiaowen Chu, Ryan Yide Ran +7

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborations among clients for train machine learning models while protecting their data privacy. Existing FL simulation platforms that are design…

cs.LG2023★ 37 cited

FedML-HE: An Efficient Homomorphic-Encryption-Based Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning System

Weizhao Jin, Yuhang Yao, Shanshan Han +5

Federated Learning trains machine learning models on distributed devices by aggregating local model updates instead of local data. However, privacy concerns arise as the aggregated…

cs.CR2023

Proof-of-Contribution-Based Design for Collaborative Machine Learning on Blockchain

Baturalp Buyukates, Chaoyang He, Shanshan Han +5

We consider a project (model) owner that would like to train a model by utilizing the local private data and compute power of interested data owners, i.e., trainers. Our goal is to…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Federated Analytics: A survey

Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy, Yahya H. Ezzeldin, Shanshan Han +4

Federated analytics (FA) is a privacy-preserving framework for computing data analytics over multiple remote parties (e.g., mobile devices) or silo-ed institutional entities (e.g.,…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

SMILE: Scaling Mixture-of-Experts with Efficient Bi-level Routing

Chaoyang He, Shuai Zheng, Aston Zhang +4

The mixture of Expert (MoE) parallelism is a recent advancement that scales up the model size with constant computational cost. MoE selects different sets of parameters (i.e., expe…

cs.LG2022★ 39 cited

FLamby: Datasets and Benchmarks for Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Realistic Healthcare Settings

Jean Ogier du Terrail, Samy-Safwan Ayed, Edwige Cyffers +21

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel approach enabling several clients holding sensitive data to collaboratively train machine learning models, without centralizing data. The cross-s…

cs.LG2022

Partial Model Averaging in Federated Learning: Performance Guarantees and Benefits

Sunwoo Lee, Anit Kumar Sahu, Chaoyang He +1

Local Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) with periodic model averaging (FedAvg) is a foundational algorithm in Federated Learning. The algorithm independently runs SGD on multiple w…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

SPIDER: Searching Personalized Neural Architecture for Federated Learning

Erum Mushtaq, Chaoyang He, Jie Ding +1

Federated learning (FL) is an efficient learning framework that assists distributed machine learning when data cannot be shared with a centralized server due to privacy and regulat…

cs.LG2021

AutoCTS: Automated Correlated Time Series Forecasting -- Extended Version

Xinle Wu, Dalin Zhang, Chenjuan Guo +3

Correlated time series (CTS) forecasting plays an essential role in many cyber-physical systems, where multiple sensors emit time series that capture interconnected processes. Solu…

cs.CV2021★ 42 cited

FedCV: A Federated Learning Framework for Diverse Computer Vision Tasks

Chaoyang He, Alay Dilipbhai Shah, Zhenheng Tang +7

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that can learn a global or personalized model from decentralized datasets on edge devices. However, in the computer visio…

cs.LG2021★ 41 cited

MEST: Accurate and Fast Memory-Economic Sparse Training Framework on the Edge

Geng Yuan, Xiaolong Ma, Wei Niu +13

Recently, a new trend of exploring sparsity for accelerating neural network training has emerged, embracing the paradigm of training on the edge. This paper proposes a novel Memory…

cs.LG2021★ 12 cited

SSFL: Tackling Label Deficiency in Federated Learning via Personalized Self-Supervision

Chaoyang He, Zhengyu Yang, Erum Mushtaq +3

Federated Learning (FL) is transforming the ML training ecosystem from a centralized over-the-cloud setting to distributed training over edge devices in order to strengthen data pr…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Layer-wise Adaptive Model Aggregation for Scalable Federated Learning

Sunwoo Lee, Tuo Zhang, Chaoyang He +1

In Federated Learning, a common approach for aggregating local models across clients is periodic averaging of the full model parameters. It is, however, known that different layers…

cs.LG2021★ 17 cited

FairFed: Enabling Group Fairness in Federated Learning

Yahya H. Ezzeldin, Shen Yan, Chaoyang He +2

Training ML models which are fair across different demographic groups is of critical importance due to the increased integration of ML in crucial decision-making scenarios such as…

cs.LG2021★ 59 cited

LightSecAgg: a Lightweight and Versatile Design for Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning

Jinhyun So, Chaoyang He, Chien-Sheng Yang +5

Secure model aggregation is a key component of federated learning (FL) that aims at protecting the privacy of each user's individual model while allowing for their global aggregati…

cs.LG2021★ 167 cited

A Field Guide to Federated Optimization

Jianyu Wang, Zachary Charles, Zheng Xu +50

Federated learning and analytics are a distributed approach for collaboratively learning models (or statistics) from decentralized data, motivated by and designed for privacy prote…

cs.CR2021★ 11 cited

OmniLytics: A Blockchain-based Secure Data Market for Decentralized Machine Learning

Jiacheng Liang, Songze Li, Bochuan Cao +2

We propose OmniLytics, a blockchain-based secure data trading marketplace for machine learning applications. Utilizing OmniLytics, many distributed data owners can contribute their…

cs.LG2021★ 29 cited

SpreadGNN: Serverless Multi-task Federated Learning for Graph Neural Networks

Chaoyang He, Emir Ceyani, Keshav Balasubramanian +2

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the first choice methods for graph machine learning problems thanks to their ability to learn state-of-the-art level representations from graph-str…