EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Xiuying Wang 0015
dblp:439/1052
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Efficient and distributed learning · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › model compression › knowledge distillation
feature distillation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Feature Distillation is the Better Choice for Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
federated learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Feature Distillation is the Better Choice for Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › model compression
knowledge distillation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Feature Distillation is the Better Choice for Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › federated learning › heterogeneous federated learning
model-heterogeneous federated learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Feature Distillation is the Better Choice for Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
orthogonal projection · 0.9knowledge distillation · 0.9ensemble distillation · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Feature Distillation is the Better Choice for Model-Heterogeneous Federated LearningabstractModel-Heterogeneous Federated Learning (Hetero-FL) has attracted growing attention for its ability to aggregate knowledge from heterogeneous models while keeping private data locally. To better aggregate knowledge from clients, ensemble distillation, as a widely used and effective technique, is often employed after global aggregation to enhance the performance of the global model. However, simply combining Hetero-FL and ensemble distillation does not always yield promising results and can make the training process unstable. The reason is that existing methods primarily focus on logit distillation, which, while being model-agnostic with softmax predictions, fails to compensate for the knowledge bias arising from heterogeneous models.
To tackle this challenge, we propose a stable and efficient Feature Distillation for model-heterogeneous Federated learning, dubbed FedFD, that can incorporate aligned feature information via orthogonal projection to integrate knowledge from heterogeneous models better. Specifically, a new feature-based ensemble federated knowledge distillation paradigm is proposed. The global model on the server needs to maintain a projection layer for each client-side model architecture to align the features separately. Orthogonal techniques are employed to re-parameterize the projection layer to mitigate knowledge bias from heterogeneous models and thus maximize the distilled knowledge. Extensive experiments show that FedFD achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods. Yichen Li 0006, Xiuying Wang 0015, Wenchao Xu 0001, Haozhao Wang, Yining Qi, Jiahua Dong 0001, Ruixuan Li 0001 |
NeurIPS | 2 |