This work proposes a data-Quality-aware aggregation framework by introducing an Evolutionary-computation-inspired de-sign into Federated learning ( FedEvoQ), with a lightweight dual-branch architecture.
Energy-Aware Adaptive Quantization and Freezing (EA-AQF), a unified framework that co-optimizes communication and computation, is presented, a unified framework that co-optimizes communication and computation and maintains robust convergence in highly heterogeneous tasks.
This paper proposes Federated Learning with Consistency Optimization Algorithms (FedCO), a novel optimization framework that incorporates a label-skew-aware correction loss and neural feature distribution regularization during local training that significantly improves accuracy and convergence under diverse non-IID settings.
Ruiqi Wu, Yehong Li, Hongjie Guo et al.· Computers, Materials & C...· 0 citations
Federated Learning often suffers from significant performance degradation under Non-IID (non-identically and independently distributed) data settings, where heterogeneous client data distributions lead to severe model drift. Traditional aggregation strategies, such as FedAvg, typically determine client contribution weights based solely on local dataset sizes, neglecting the varying quality and relevance of individual client updates to the global model. In this paper, we propose a novel Improvementbased Reliability Weighted Federated Learning (IRW-FL) framework. The key idea is to estimate client reliability by measuring the net performance improvement achieved on a small local validation set after each round of local training. To reduce the impact of stochastic fluctuations across training rounds, we maintain an Exponential Moving Average (EMA) of these improvements to construct a stable long-term reliability estimate for each client. Following a brief warm-up phase, the reliability scores are normalized using a temperature-scaled Softmax function and combined with client dataset sizes to produce adaptive aggregation weights. In addition, we incorporate serverside momentum to further stabilize the global optimization process. Extensive experiments on the CIFAR-10 dataset using a lightweight CNN model under multiple Dirichlet-based Non-IID scenarios demonstrate that IRW-FL consistently outperforms strong baselines, including FedAvg and FedProx. We further conduct ablation studies on warm-up duration and temperature parameter sensitivity, and evaluate robustness under partial client participation. The proposed approach achieves higher global model accuracy and exhibits strong robustness under severe data heterogeneity.
Zelin Li, Junnan Yang· 2026 6th International Confe...· 0 citations
This work proposes FedHAttn, a novel hierarchical attention–based aggregation mechanism that explicitly models inter-client model feature importance to optimize global model performance and establishes an effective aggregator that balances accuracy, robustness, and efficiency in federated PM2.5 prediction.
Sudhir Kumar, Vaneet Kour, Shivendu Mishra et al.· International Journal of Mac...· 0 citations
A novel FL framework is presented, FedPhoenix, that stochastically re-sets partial parameters in each round to destroy some features of the global model, guiding FL training to learn multiple generalized features for inference rather than specific overfitting features.
Jiahao Wu, Ming Hu, Yanxin Yang et al.· Advances in Neural Informati...· 1 citation