Scientific journal paper Q1
Adding data quality to federated learning performance improvement
Ernesto G. Valente Neto (Neto, E. G. V.); Solon A. Peixoto Jr. (Peixoto Jr., S. A.); Valderi Leithardt (Leithardt, V. R. Q.); Juan Francisco de Paz Santana (Santana, J. F. P.); Julio C. S. dos Anjos (Anjos, J. C. S. dos.);
Journal Title
IEEE Access
Year (definitive publication)
2025
Language
English
Country
United States of America
More Information
Web of Science®

Times Cited: 0

(Last checked: 2025-12-04 23:30)

View record in Web of Science®

Scopus

Times Cited: 0

(Last checked: 2025-11-29 00:27)

View record in Scopus

Google Scholar

Times Cited: 1

(Last checked: 2025-11-30 01:51)

View record in Google Scholar

This publication is not indexed in Overton

Abstract
Massive data generation from Internet of Things (IoT) devices increases the demand for efficient data analysis to extract meaningful insights. Federated Learning (FL) allows IoT devices to collaborate in AI training models while preserving data privacy. However, selecting high-quality data for training remains a critical challenge in FL environments with non-independent and identically distributed (non-iid) data. Poor-quality data introduces errors, delays convergence, and increases computational costs. This study develops a data quality analysis algorithm for FL and centralized environments to address these challenges. The proposed algorithm reduces computational costs, eliminates unnecessary data processing, and accelerates AI model convergence. The experiments used the MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, CIFAR-10, and CIFAR-100 datasets, and performance evaluation was based on main literature metrics like accuracy, recall, F1 score, and precision. Results show the best case execution time reductions of up to 56.49%, with an accuracy loss of around 0.50%.
Acknowledgements
--
Keywords
Data quality,Deep learning,Federated learning,IoT,IID,Non-IID
  • Computer and Information Sciences - Natural Sciences
  • Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering - Engineering and Technology
Funding Records
Funding Reference Funding Entity
001 Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
UIDB/04466/2020 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
406517/2022-3 Brazil’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
UIDP/04466/2020 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2020/09706-7 São Paulo Research Foundation
Related Projects

With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific publications with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified by the author(s) for this publication. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.