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Edge Association Strategies for Synthetic Data Empowered Hierarchical Federated Learning with Non-IID Data
Jer Shyuan Ng, Aditya Pribadi Kalapaaking, Xiaoyu Xia, Dusit Niyato, Ibrahim Khalil, Iqbal Gondal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18259

Edge Association Strategies for Synthetic Data Empowered Hierarchical Federated Learning with Non-IID Data
In recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a widely adopted privacy-preserving distributed training approach, attracting significant interest from both academia and industry. Research efforts have been dedicated to improving different aspects of FL, such as algorithm improvement, resource allocation, and client selection, to enable its deployment in distributed edge networks for practical applications. One of the reasons for the poor FL model performance is due to the worker dropou…

'Two Worlds, Two Analemmas' From the #NASA_App :
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250621.html

Privacy-Preserving Multimodal News Recommendation through Federated Learning
Mehdi Khalaj, Shahrzad Golestani Najafabadi, Julita Vassileva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15460

Privacy-Preserving Multimodal News Recommendation through Federated Learning
Personalized News Recommendation systems (PNR) have emerged as a solution to information overload by predicting and suggesting news items tailored to individual user interests. However, traditional PNR systems face several challenges, including an overreliance on textual content, common neglect of short-term user interests, and significant privacy concerns due to centralized data storage. This paper addresses these issues by introducing a novel multimodal federated learning-based approach for n…

With the #AAS246 presser number 3 came the press releases https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-018 (Moons of Uranus Surprise Scientists in NASA Hubble Study) and https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-125 (Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA's Webb) and the paper "Silicate clouds and a circumplanetary disk in the YSES-1 exoplanet system" already covered in https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/114660217108691128 with the press release https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/top-stories/featured/silicate-clouds-discovered-in-atmosphere-of-distant-exoplanet/ (Silicate clouds discovered in atmosphere of distant exoplanet).

Sporadic Federated Learning Approach in Quantum Environment to Tackle Quantum Noise
Ratun Rahman, Atit Pokharel, Dinh C. Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12492

Sporadic Federated Learning Approach in Quantum Environment to Tackle Quantum Noise
Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) is an emerging paradigm that combines quantum computing and federated learning (FL) to enable decentralized model training while maintaining data privacy over quantum networks. However, quantum noise remains a significant barrier in QFL, since modern quantum devices experience heterogeneous noise levels due to variances in hardware quality and sensitivity to quantum decoherence, resulting in inadequate training performance. To address this issue, we propose SpoQ…

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House Dems: Trump is starving inspectors generals of resources, blocking investigations - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2025/08/house-dems-trump-starving-inspectors-generals-resources-blocking-investigations/407497/?oref=ge-featured-river-top

Nice,
"Europe Launches Its First Federated AI Factory Based on a Sovereign Multi-Cloud Infrastructure"
#ai #cloud #eu

As we're getting more into hikes around our new home – and I record tracks of them to also improve #openstreetmap – I've made a #wanderer profile at @… to share some nice trails.
It's an open source trail/track sharing platform that's federated thanks to #ActivityPub, so if you can read this post, you can follow my profile there too!*
* that is except you read this through the bridge to BlueSky, then you're out of luck and should give the actual Fediverse another try 😉

The death of our dear Dog of War #ukraine

The death of our dear Dog of War
Goldie, by a tragic coincidence, was our featured June pup in our Dog of War calendar. This week she died during a Russian bombardment.