Separate Aggregation of Split Network for Personalized Federated Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26571v1
• Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 05:44:30 GMT
• Title: Separate Aggregation of Split Network for Personalized Federated Learning
• Abstract summary: Federated learning can degrade substantially under heterogeneous client data distributions.<n>We propose PGFedSplit, a personalized federated learning framework.<n>Experiments on Fashion MNIST, CIFAR 10, CIFAR 100, and Tiny ImageNet demonstrate consistent improvements over state of the art PFL methods.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Federated learning enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but its performance can degrade substantially under heterogeneous client data distributions. A single global model often cannot satisfy diverse client requirements, so personalized federated learning has therefore been explored to improve client specific performance while preserving global generalization. Existing PFL methods often face a fundamental tradeoff in which stronger global sharing can undermine local specialization, whereas stronger local adaptation can lead to overfitting under limited data, label imbalance, and missing class scenarios. In this work, we propose PGFedSplit, a personalized federated learning framework that improves both personalization and global generalization under severe client heterogeneity. PGFedSplit adopts a split architecture and performs adaptive aggregation scheduling tailored to the roles of different model components, enabling stable knowledge sharing while maintaining client specific adaptation. Each client further leverages a mixture of locally extracted representations and synthetic representations generated from server side Gaussian statistics, improving robustness under label imbalance and missing class conditions. Extensive experiments on Fashion MNIST, CIFAR 10, CIFAR 100, and Tiny ImageNet demonstrate consistent improvements over state of the art PFL methods, with stable convergence and superior personalization in highly heterogeneous settings.

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