8 papers
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…
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…
Learning to Optimize Job Shop Scheduling Under Structural Uncertainty
Rui Zhang, Jianwei Niu, Xuefeng Liu +2
The Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP), under various forms of manufacturing uncertainty, has recently attracted considerable research attention. Most existing studies focus on par…
Can Federated Learning Safeguard Private Data in LLM Training? Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Defense Evaluation
Wenkai Guo, Xuefeng Liu, Haolin Wang +3
Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with local data is a widely adopted approach for organizations seeking to adapt LLMs to their specific domains. Given the shared characteri…
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…
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…