Learning models trained on biased datasets tend to observe correlations between categorical and undesirable features, which result in degraded performances. Most existing debiased learning models are designed for centralized machine learning, which cannot be directly applied to distributed settings like federated learning (FL), which collects data at distinct clients with privacy preserved. To tackle the challenging task of debiased federated learning, we present a novel FL framework of Bias-Eliminating Augmentation Learning (FedBEAL), which learns to deploy Bias-Eliminating Augmenters (BEA) for producing client-specific bias-conflicting samples at each client. Since the bias types or attributes are not known in advance, a unique learning strategy is presented to jointly train BEA with the proposed FL framework. Extensive image classification experiments on datasets with various bias types confirm the effectiveness and applicability of our FedBEAL, which performs favorably against state-of-the-art debiasing and FL methods for debiased FL.

Point clouds have been widely applied to represent 3D data, with a variety of applications such as autonomous driving, augmented reality, and robotics. Since collecting a large amount of labeled 3D point cloud data for training deep learning models might not always be applicable, we propose the novel learning strategy of 3D-SelfCutMix, which advances mixed-sample data augmentation techniques while exploiting the spatial and semantic consistencies between point cloud data. Depending on the availability of label supervision, the proposed network can be realized in either self-supervised or fully-supervised manners, while both versions are shown to benefit downstream tasks. In our experiments, we consider a variety of tasks including classification and part-segmentation tasks, which sufficiently support the use of the proposed method for 3D point cloud analysis.