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Fractional Calculus for Federated Learning (FC4FL)

Fractional Calculus for Federated Learning (FC4FL)

News:

  • 3/31/2025. Seminar by Mohammad: "Bridging Fractional-Order Gradient Descent and Federated Averaging Learning with Tail-Index Awareness and Weight Matrix Spectral Analysis" 
  • 3/17/2025. ASME IDETC MESA 2025 FDTA25 (since 2003) "Tail-Index-Awareness in  Fractional Order Stochastic Gradient Descent" by Mohammad Partohaghighi, Roummel Marcia, and YangQuan Chen
  • 3/16/2025. IEEE CDC25 "More Optimal Fractional-Order Stochastic Gradient Descent for Non-Convex Optimization Problems" under review (8 pages) by Mohammad Partohaghighi, Roummel Marcia , and YangQuan Chen
  • 3/17/2025. arXiv PDF (8 pages). (arXiv ID=https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13764) "Effective Dimension Aware Fractional-Order Stochastic Gradient Descent for Convex Optimization Problems" by Mohammad Partohaghighi, Roummel Marcia , and YangQuan Chen (L-CSS+CDC25)
  • 2/10/25. Seminar by Mohammad: "Deep Learning With Heavy Tailed-Based Differential Privacy" (90 min. Youtube link tbd)
  • 2/12/25. FC4FL webpage created.

People:

  • Mohammad Partohaghighi, EECS Ph.D. student

  • Shiang Cao, ME Ph.D. student
  • Justus Nwoke, ME Ph.D. candidate

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Created 2/12/25 by Dr YangQuan Chen, last updated: 

Mohammad Partohaghighi