Ruilin Liu

Dr. Ruilin Liu


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1Year (2026-Present)

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27 February 2026 in Mathematics
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Ruilin Liu
LZLili Zhang
Lili Zhang
Federated Learning (FL) represents a promising paradigm for collaborative model training across numerous devices, preserving data locality and offering potential privacy benefits for industries such as finance, healthcare, and Internet of Things (IoT). Nonetheless, real-world deployments of FL encounter challenges arising from dynamic and diverse environments, which adversely affect training speed and model convergence. To address these issues, this paper introduces FedDCS, an adaptive federated learning framework that effectively manages resources during training through two primary innovations. First, it establishes a reliable method for predicting client training durations, estimating completion times while filtering noise and detecting performance variations. Second, it implements a two-stage adaptive waiting strategy that dynamically determines the optimal timing and selection of client batches for aggregation, thereby balancing collection efficiency with model accuracy. This approach optimizes the trade-off between efficiency and accuracy in heterogeneous settings. Extensive evaluations on datasets such as Fashion-MNIST and CIFAR-10/100, incorporating simulated device and data heterogeneity, demonstrate that FedDCS consistently achieves superior time efficiency and higher global model accuracy compared to state-of-the-art (e.g., synchronous, asynchronous, and semi-asynchronous) baselines. Its robustness and versatility render it effective across various complex and heterogeneous environments.