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FedSAP: Federated Learning with Structured Adaptive Partitioning for Multi-Domain Heterogeneous Edge Devices

FedSAP uses budget-constrained tri-state channel allocation to partition models into global, private, and dropped channels for heterogeneous federated domain generalization, improving accuracy by up to 4.92 points under 80% pruning.

Wentao Yue, Tianyou Lai, Hongji Li, Qingyu Mao and 1 more

Published Oct 1, 2026 · 0 citations

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Reliable Federated Multi-View Learning via Conflict-Aware Evidence Calibration

Daoyuan Li, Zuyuan Yang, Hao Yang, Jiawen Kang

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Confounding-Aware Client Selection in Federated Learning via Causal Mediation Analysis

Xiaoyang Yi, Yuru Bao, Rihao Chang, Binhan Yang and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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FedVaccine: Knowledge Recall after Spatial-Temporal Catastrophic Forgetting in Federated Continual Learning via Gradient-Based Vaccine

Hao Yu, Xin Yang, Boyang Fan, Xuemei Cao and 4 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Geometry-Aware Subspace Perturbation for Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Xiangtao Zhang, Hailong Yan, Obed Irihose, Joey Tianyi Zhou and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Geometry-Regularized Collapse Resistance via Consensus Enhancement for Federated Learning

Jingjing Zhu, Zhuang Qi, Lei Meng, Han Yu and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Distributionally Robust Black Box Optimization-based Bidding Strategy in Auction-based Federated Learning

Xiaoli Tang, Zhuang Qi, Ying-Peng Tang, Xianjie Guo and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Fed-AGA: An Anchor Graph Alignment Framework for Federated Unaligned Multi-view Clustering

Yichi Zhang, bohang sun, Hao Wei, Kai Di and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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The Price of Locality: Why Forward-Forward Underperforms Backpropagation?

Zhaoxian Wu, Haichuan Liu, Tianyi Chen

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Stability-Enhanced Federated Learning with Accelerated Gradient

Tianxiang Chen, Wenjie Hou, Feng Wang, Tiantong Wang and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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A typed tensor language for federated learning

Theofilos Mailis, Kalliopi-Christina Despotidou, Konstantinos Filippopolitis, Yannis Foufoulas and 5 more

Paris Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Federated Bayesian Optimization through Neural Network Surrogates

Alexander Gräfe, Max van Gemmeren, Paul Brunzema, Sebastian Trimpe

Paris Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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FedSEM: Mitigating Cross-Client Evidence Drift in Federated Multiple Instance Learning

Zhiqiang Kou, Beidi Wang, Yuling Shi, Shengkun Zhu and 5 more

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Bayes-pFCL:Bayesian Personalized Federated Continual Learning

qingyang yu, Yang Hua, Hao Wang, Yue Ning and 2 more

Atlanta Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Federated Logic Gate Networks via Boolean Feature Selection

Felix Kunze, Antonio Di Maio

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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FedPeel: Peeling Stabilized Layers for Robust Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Haizhou Du, Lixin Huang, Zonghan Wu, Huan Huo and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Pointillism: Probing-Based Model Compatibility for Robust Collaborative Machine Learning

Yang Li, Adams Wai Kin Kong

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Robust and Scalable Collaborative Learning via Pull-Based Epidemic Communication

Abdellah El Mrini, Sadegh Farhadkhani, Rachid Guerraoui

Paris Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Constant Term Shrinkage for Federated Learning

Incheol Baek, Minseo Kim, Hyeonmin Kang, Yon Dohn Chung

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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A Doubly Smoothed Decentralized Stochastic Minimax Optimization Algorithm

Xinwen Zhang, Chiu C Tan, Haibin Ling, Hongchang Gao

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Heterogeneity-aware Distillation for Federated Continual Learning

Gaozhuo Liu, Yichen Li, Xiuying Wang, Yulong Li and 3 more

Paris Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Rehearsal-Free Statistical Prototype Regularization for Federated Incremental Learning

Xiuying Wang, Yichen Li, Jiahua Cheng, Xiwei Liu and 3 more

Paris Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Mitigating Data Heterogeneity Effect in Client-Reshuffling-Based Federated Learning

Su Zhang, Peiran Yu, Heng Huang

Atlanta Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Nerve-Skeleton Message Passing for Federated Optimization with Overlapping Parameters

Wei Zhang

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Beyond Flat Gossip: Tiered Gossip Learning for Scalable Collaborative AI

Atul Sharma, Kavindu Herath, Saurabh Bagchi, Chaoyue Liu and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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HERO: A Heterogeneity-Aware Benchmark Library for Federated Continual Learning

HERO introduces a heterogeneity-aware benchmark library for federated continual learning that separates task splits, client splits, and sequences to expose hidden performance disparities.

Thinh Nguyen, Le-Tuan Nguyen, Minh-Duong Nguyen, Nhi Trinh and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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FedAdaVR: Adaptive Variance Reduction for Robust Federated Learning under Limited Client Participation

FedAdaVR combines adaptive optimization with variance reduction using stored updates to eliminate partial participation error in federated learning, and FedAdaVR-Quant cuts memory by up to 87.5%.

S M RUHUL KABIR HOWLADER, Xiao Chen, Yifei Xie, Lu Liu

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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FedVSSAM: Mitigating Flatness Incompatibility in Sharpness-Aware Federated Learning

FedVSSAM fixes flatness incompatibility in federated sharpness-aware learning via variance-suppressed global directions to boost convergence and generalization.

Bingnan Xiao, Yuan Gao, Bingcong Li, Wei Ni and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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CUVET: A Partitioning Approach for Continuous Treatment Assignment At Scale

CUVET partitions continuous treatment assignment at scale via a scalable partitioning approach that improves estimation and assignment efficiency.

Artem Betlei, Mariia Vladimirova, Victor Girou, Thibaud Rahier

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Reviving Stale Updates: Data-Free Knowledge Distillation for Asynchronous Federated Learning

FedRevive revives stale asynchronous federated updates via server-side data-free knowledge distillation, accelerating training by 38.4% and boosting accuracy by 16.5%.

Baris Askin, Holger Roth, Zhenyu Sun, Carlee Joe-Wong and 2 more

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Communication-Efficient Personalized Adaptation via Federated-Local Model Merging

Potara merges federated and local models via closed-form optimal weights to improve federated personalization with lower communication costs.

Yinan Zou, Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher, Christopher Brinton, Vishrant Tripathi

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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SP-CACW: Convergence-Aware Client Weighting for Selfish Personalized Learning

SP-CACW minimizes an upper bound on a target client's convergence error via convergence-aware weighting that trades peer bias against variance and excludes harmful peers.

Yaron Kiselman, Kfir Y. Levy

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Principled Federated Random Forests for Heterogeneous Data

FedForest proposes a federated random forest using aggregated statistics to approximate centralized splits under heterogeneous data, enabling personalized client-indicator splits with near-centralized accuracy and low communication cost.

Rémi Khellaf, Erwan Scornet, Aurélien Bellet, Julie Josse

Paris Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Rescaled Asynchronous SGD: Optimal Distributed Optimization under Data and System Heterogeneity

Rescaled ASGD corrects asynchronous SGD's bias toward fast workers via computation-time-proportional step sizes, matching optimal time complexity with only lower-order heterogeneity penalties.

Ammar Mahran, Artavazd Maranjyan, Peter Richtarik

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Federated Learning by Utility-Constrained Stochastic Aggregation for Improving Rational Participation

FedUCA treats servers as participation optimizers to sustain rational clients, achieving higher retention and better global models than standard aggregation.

Yashwanth Mandula, Arunabh Singh, Ashok Nayak, Saikiran Bulusu and 1 more

Paris Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 2:30 PM–4:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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