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A Comprehensive Survey of Federated Learning: Privacy, Personalization, and Future Horizons

Parth Bramhecha, Parth Manekar, Sarvesh Dhule, Yash Sancheti, Emmanuel Mark

2026 International Conference on Emerging Trends and Innovations in ICT (ICEI), 2026

Abstract

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning method that enables collaborative model training on various devices or entities without the need to share raw data, thus addressing privacy, security, and regulatory hurdles imposed by industries care, finance and Internet of Things, etc. FL was initially conceived as a system for distributed training and later generalized by the FedAvg algorithm, it has become one of the core technologies of privacy, preserving AI. Research in this field can be roughly divided into five themes: optimization techniques, privacy, preserving strategies, data heterogeneity management, personalization approaches and adversarial attacks resistance. The major achievements are the algorithms for improved convergence in heterogeneous environments as well as the techniques for overcoming the problems caused by non, independent and non, identically distributed data. The publications now focus on real, world issues, methodological trade, offs, and problems such as communication overheads and attack robustness that remain unsolved. Popular research themes explore the integration of FL with blockchain, edge computing and quantum technologies to enhance security, scalability and efficiency.

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