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most citedThe Diversity Bonus: Learning from Dissimilar Distributed Clients in Personalized Federated Learning

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cs.AI2026

From Coordinate Matching to Structural Alignment: Rethinking Prototype Alignment in Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Xinghao Wu, Jianwei Niu, Guogang Zhu +3

Heterogeneous federated learning (HtFL) aims to enable collaboration among clients that differ in both data distributions and model architectures. Prototype-based methods, which co…

cs.LG2025

Enhancing Visual Representation with Textual Semantics: Textual Semantics-Powered Prototypes for Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Xinghao Wu, Jianwei Niu, Xuefeng Liu +4

Federated Prototype Learning (FedPL) has emerged as an effective strategy for handling data heterogeneity in Federated Learning (FL). In FedPL, clients collaboratively construct a…

cs.LG2025

The Other Side of the Coin: Unveiling the Downsides of Model Aggregation in Federated Learning from a Layer-peeled Perspective

Guogang Zhu, Xuefeng Liu, Jianwei Niu +2

It is often observed that the aggregated model in FL underperforms on local data until after several rounds of local training. This temporary performance drop can potentially slow…

cs.LG2024

Tackling Feature-Classifier Mismatch in Federated Learning via Prompt-Driven Feature Transformation

Xinghao Wu, Jianwei Niu, Xuefeng Liu +3

In traditional Federated Learning approaches like FedAvg, the global model underperforms when faced with data heterogeneity. Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) enables clients t…

cs.LG20241 cited

The Diversity Bonus: Learning from Dissimilar Distributed Clients in Personalized Federated Learning

Xinghao Wu, Xuefeng Liu, Jianwei Niu +4

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) is a commonly used framework that allows clients to collaboratively train their personalized models. PFL is particularly useful for handling s…

cs.LG2024

DualFed: Enjoying both Generalization and Personalization in Federated Learning via Hierachical Representations

Guogang Zhu, Xuefeng Liu, Jianwei Niu +3

In personalized federated learning (PFL), it is widely recognized that achieving both high model generalization and effective personalization poses a significant challenge due to t…