This work detects anomalous clients in federated learning to prevent their adverse impacts.
problem Detecting and preventing anomalous client behaviors in federated learning systems.
method Generates low-dimensional surrogates of model weight vectors and uses them for anomaly detection.
result The proposed detection-based approach significantly outperforms conventional defense-based methods.
FedACS uses attention to select clients with similar data for federated learning.
problem Non-IID data and data scarcity in federated learning.
method FedACS integrates an attention mechanism to prioritize clients with similar data distributions.
result FedACS improves federated learning performance by addressing non-IID data and data scarcity.
Robo-advisor improves investment advice through client interaction.
problem Offering personalized financial advice to clients.
method Adaptive mean-variance portfolio optimization with client interaction.
result Optimal investment strategy includes both myopic and intertemporal hedging terms.
Federated learning studies separate client data and distribution gaps.
problem Understanding performance differences in federated learning across different datasets.
method Proposed a framework to disentangle out-of-sample and participation gaps.
result Dataset synthesis strategy is crucial for realistic simulations of federated learning generalization.
For the last two decades, most financial markets have undergone an evolution toward electronification. The market for corporate bonds is one of the last major financial markets to follow this unavoidable path. Traditionally quote-driven i.e., dealer-driven) rather than order-driven, the market for corporate bonds is st…
New framework detects and removes malicious model updates in federated learning.
problem Vulnerability of federated learning systems to malicious client attacks.
method Central server learns to detect and remove malicious model updates using a detection model.
result Ensures robust federated learning resilient to Byzantine and targeted model poisoning attacks.
TRIBE model uses LLMs to simulate human trading behavior in bond markets.
problem Complexities in decentralized bond market transactions.
method Agent-based model augmented with LLMs to simulate human-like decision-making.
result Slight trade aversion in LLMs can lead to complete market collapse.
MpFL models clients as strategic players to reach equilibrium with less communication.
problem Real-world clients act independently with individual objectives, not aligned with a shared global model.
method MpFL uses game-theoretic modeling and PEARL-SGD algorithm for local updates and communication.
result PEARL-SGD reaches an equilibrium with less communication than non-local updates in stochastic setup.
This work introduces reward teaching for federated multi-armed bandits to guide clients towards global optimality.
problem Existing federated multi-armed bandits designs assume clients will follow the server's protocol, but this is not always feasible.
method Introduces reward teaching where the server adjusts clients' local rewards to encourage global optimality, using phased Teaching-After-Learning (TAL) and Teaching-While-Learning (TWL) algorithms.
result Demonstrates that TAL achieves logarithmic regrets with only logarithmic adjustment costs, and TWL outperforms TAL for UCB1 clients.
This paper reviews statistical and machine learning methods for anti-money laundering.
problem Lack of scientific literature on statistical and machine learning methods for anti-money laundering.
method Client risk profiling and suspicious behavior flagging.
result Client risk profiling involves diagnostics, while suspicious behavior flagging involves non-disclosed features and hand-crafted risk indices.
Federated learning can be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which this work addresses.
problem Federated learning's adversarial vulnerability when deployed.
method Bias-Variance decomposition for federated learning, proposing Fed_BVA framework.
result Fed_BVA framework generates adversarial examples to improve robustness.
Adaptive optimizers improve federated learning performance.
problem Inadequate optimization methods in federated learning.
method Federated versions of adaptive optimizers (Adagrad, Adam, Yogi).
result Adaptive optimizers enhance federated learning performance.
Federated Learning prioritizes client data contributions for better model quality.
problem Privacy concerns and reluctance to share private data in machine learning.
method Prioritizes client data contributions in Federated Learning by assigning scores based on defined criteria.
result The proposed approach yields a higher quality global model compared to standard Federated Learning.
Client adaptation improves federated learning performance with non-IID data.
problem Improving model performance in federated learning with non-identically and non-independently distributed data.
method Simulates heterogeneous clients to learn client-specific conditioning using a conditional gated activation unit.
result Client adaptation enhances model performance across balanced and imbalanced data sets from audio and image domains.
The workflow of data scientists normally involves potentially inefficient processes such as data mining, feature engineering and model selection. Recent research has focused on automating this workflow, partly or in its entirety, to improve productivity. We choose the former approach and in this paper share our experie…
FedSTaS stratifies and samples clients for efficient FL.
problem Inefficient client sampling in federated learning.
method Stratifies clients based on compressed gradients, uses Neyman allocation for sampling, and samples local data uniformly.
result FedSTaS achieves higher accuracy than FedSTS in fixed training rounds.
A machine learning environment for detecting autonomous vehicle corner cases.
problem Testing autonomous driving software in the real world is difficult.
method Connecting CARLA simulation software to TensorFlow and custom AI client software.
result The system can identify situations where AI software fails to understand the scenario.
This paper analyzes and improves convergence in federated learning with biased client selection.
problem Analyzing convergence in federated learning with biased client selection.
method First convergence analysis of federated optimization for biased client selection strategies, proposing Power-of-Choice framework.
result Power-of-Choice strategies converge up to 3 times faster and give 10% higher test accuracy than random selection.
This paper optimizes brokerage contracts for multiple clients trading a single asset.
problem Optimizing brokerage contracts for multiple clients trading a single asset.
method Endogenously determines clients' reservation values and strategically chooses clients. Characterizes optimal portfolios computationally.
result Characterizes optimal portfolios of clients and their profits, showing dependence on price impact coefficients.
Active Federated Learning selects clients to maximize efficiency.
problem Minimizing bandwidth usage and maximizing model accuracy in federated learning.
method Clients are selected with a probability conditioned on the current model and client data to maximize efficiency.
result Reduces the number of required training iterations by 20-70% while maintaining the same model accuracy.
Personalized federated learning for diverse client objectives.
problem Training a single global model across diverse local datasets is not optimal.
method Efficiently calculates optimal weighted model combinations for each client based on their specific objectives.
result Our method outperforms existing alternatives and enables new personalized features.
A new scheme for private computation splits client data into shares for server operations.
problem Private computation between client and server without revealing data.
method Stochastic scheme splitting client data into privatized shares.
result Server performs operations on privatized shares without learning raw data.
Federated learning is a recent advance in privacy protection. In this context, a trusted curator aggregates parameters optimized in decentralized fashion by multiple clients. The resulting model is then distributed back to all clients, ultimately converging to a joint representative model without explicitly having to s…
A federated minimax framework for heterogeneous clients.
problem Training with edge devices having different datasets and capabilities.
method Proposes a federated minimax optimization framework with normalized updates.
result Improves convergence and communication complexity for nonconvex functions.
FedAMD framework improves federated learning with partial client participation.
problem Data heterogeneity and inactive client updates in partial client participation.
method Anchor sampling divides clients into anchor and miner groups, using large and small batches respectively.
result FedAMD achieves faster convergence and improved model performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
FDR-SVM improves classification robustness in federated learning with uncertain data.
problem Federated learning with uncertain and private client data.
method Develops FDR-SVM, a robust SVM approach using a mixture of Wasserstein balls ambiguity set.
result Establishes theoretical guarantees and derives algorithms with performance bounds.
A new algorithm adapts to changing user behaviors in finance.
problem Adapting to changing user behaviors in financial recommendations.
method History-Augmented Collaborative Filtering using a custom neural network.
result The algorithm provides dynamic financial recommendations.
Federated framework learns causal states to predict counterfactuals without centralizing data.
problem Decentralized counterfactual reasoning in coupled industrial systems with private data.
method Federated causal representation learning in state-space systems.
result Proves convergence to centralized oracle and provides privacy guarantees.
Unified Bayesian framework for clustered federated learning improves model performance.
problem Handling non-IID client data in federated learning.
method A unified Bayesian framework for clustered federated learning that associates clients to clusters and proposes practical algorithms for data associations.
result The proposed framework increases model performance by circumventing the need for unique client-cluster associations.
FLowDUP trains personalized models with unlabeled clients in low dimensions.
problem Training personalized models on clients with only unlabeled data.
method FLowDUP uses a forward pass with unlabeled data and a transductive PAC-Bayesian bound to generate personalized models in a low-dimensional subspace.
result FLowDUP enables efficient communication and computation with personalized models generated from unlabeled data.
Federated learning algorithm improves with intermittent client availability.
problem Performance degradation in Federated Averaging due to client availability changes.
method Federated Latest Averaging (FedLaAvg) uses latest gradients from all clients, even when unavailable.
result FedLaAvg achieves sublinear speedup compared to classical Federated Averaging.
The recent surge of text-based online counseling applications enables us to collect and analyze interactions between counselors and clients. A dataset of those interactions can be used to learn to automatically classify the client utterances into categories that help counselors in diagnosing client status and predictin…
DFedAvgM is a decentralized FedAvg with momentum for privacy and communication efficiency.
problem Efficiently train models with privacy and communication efficiency in federated learning.
method Decentralized Federated Averaging with Momentum (DFedAvgM) on clients connected by an undirected graph, using stochastic gradient descent with momentum and quantization.
result DFedAvgM converges under trivial assumptions and can be improved with the PŁ property, numerically verified.
Group personalization improves FL performance in heterogeneous client data.
problem Mitigating client drift in federated learning with heterogeneous data.
method Fine-tuning a global FL model over homogeneous groups of clients, then personalizing each group's model.
result The proposed method achieves superior personalization performance compared to other FL approaches.
Unified analysis of FL with arbitrary client participation.
problem Challenges of intermittent client availability and efficiency in FL.
method Introduces a generalized FedAvg and novel analysis capturing client participation.
result Unified convergence upper bounds for various participation patterns.
This paper proposes a cooperative mechanism for mitigating the performance degradation due to non-independent-and-identically-distributed (non-IID) data in collaborative machine learning (ML), namely federated learning (FL), which trains an ML model using the rich data and computational resources of mobile clients with…
Optimal client sampling reduces communication in federated learning.
problem Efficiently aggregate model updates from distributed clients in federated learning.
method Model weights as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to estimate uncommunicated updates; optimal client sampling strategy.
result Significant reduction in communication with competitive or superior performance.
This work analyzes generalization in federated learning using information theory.
problem Generalization performance in federated learning is less explored compared to centralized learning.
method The work applies an information-theoretic analysis via the conditional mutual information (CMI) framework to study federated learning's two-level generalization.
result The work derives multiple CMI-based bounds, including hypothesis-based CMI bounds and fast-rate evaluated CMI bounds, which improve convergence rates for specific model aggregation strategies and structured loss functions.
New method for decentralized learning from diverse clients.
problem Achieving high-performance global model from diverse client models.
method Decentralized Learning via Adaptive Distillation (DLAD).
result Demonstrates effectiveness of DLAD on multiple public datasets.
A new framework for federated continual learning reduces interference and improves performance.
problem Learning from a sequence of tasks with limited data from each client.
method Federated Weighted Inter-client Transfer (FedWeIT) framework.
result FedWeIT significantly outperforms existing methods with reduced communication cost.
New method for semi-supervised learning in federated learning with and without labels at clients.
problem Training federated learning models with partially or completely unlabeled data.
method Federated Matching (FedMatch) with inter-client consistency loss and disjoint learning.
result FedMatch outperforms local semi-supervised learning and naive federated learning combinations.
A novel incentive mechanism improves fairness and participation in federated learning.
problem Low-quality clients and lack of fairness in federated learning.
method Client selection process and money transfer mechanism to ensure fairness and participation.
result The proposed incentive mechanism improves the duration and fairness of federated learning.
Algorithm optimizes collaborative learning among distributed clients using kernel-based bandits.
problem Optimizing personalized objectives in a distributed system with limited global information.
method Kernel-based bandit framework with surrogate Gaussian process models, sparse approximations.
result Order-optimal regret performance (up to polylogarithmic factors) and reduced communication overhead.
Despite the availability of very detailed data on financial market, agent-based modeling is hindered by the lack of information about real trader behavior. This makes it impossible to validate agent-based models, which are thus reverse-engineering attempts. This work is a contribution to the building of a set of styliz…
Federated Granger causality learns reliable interactions without sharing data.
problem Uncertainty in federated Granger causality estimates.
method Closed-form covariance recursions and spectral-radius-based convergence conditions.
result Uncertainty depends only on client data statistics and is independent of model parameters.
Study Nash competition among dealers quoting prices to clients with unknown trading motives.
problem Adverse selection and inventory costs in dealer-client interactions.
method Analyzes one-shot Nash competition with unknown client type and inventory constraints.
result Unique symmetric Nash equilibrium exists and can be characterized by a nonlinear ODE.
A simple strategy optimizes broker-client trading, reducing price discounts for informed traders.
problem Optimizing broker-client trading to balance client flow and informed trader losses.
method Modelled as a stochastic control problem, derived optimal strategy in closed form, introduced algorithm.
result Optimal strategy reduces price discounts for informed traders, balancing client flow and informed trader losses.
A new FL algorithm reduces communication overhead by selectively updating model parameters.
problem Data heterogeneity and communication overhead in federated learning.
method Uses age of information metric to selectively update model parameters and group clients with similar data.
result Our method can expedite training and surpass other communication-efficient strategies in efficiency.