Biography

Chenguang Xiao(肖晨光) is Research Fellow working on UK hydrological foundation model at School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham. Previous to that, he was a PhD student in the School of Computer Science. His research interests lie in the conjunction between Federated learning and class imbalance problem under the supervision of Dr. Shuo Wang and Prof. Lee Chapman. Before that, he received a B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Research Interests

• Federated Learning resampling: distributed data resampling/augmentation techniques under privacy constraints
• Model bias reduction: local model bias reduction techniques with heterogeneous data sources
• Federated Learning optimization: advanced optimization algorithms for distributed learning
• Multimodal Machine Learning: Fusion of modalities in complex tasks

Publications

1. ArXiv

   Rethinking the Initialization of Momentum in Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Data

   Chenguang Xiao, Shuo Wang* (*Corresponding authors)

   (ArXiv), 2025.

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2. ArXiv

   Benchmarking Federated Machine Unlearning Methods for Tabular Data

   Chenguang Xiao, Han Wu, Shuo Wang, Diederick van Thiel, Abhirup Ghosh* (*Corresponding authors)

   (ArXiv), 2025.

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3. AAAI

   FedGA: Federated Learning with Gradient Alignment for Error Asymmetry Mitigation

   Chenguang Xiao, Zheming Zuo*, Shuo Wang (*Corresponding authors)

   Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI FLUID), 2025.

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4. ECML-PKDD

   Triplets Oversampling for Class Imbalanced Federated Datasets

   Chenguang Xiao, Shuo Wang* (*Corresponding authors)

   Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, (ECML-PKDD), 2023.

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5. SSCI

   An Experimental Study of Class Imbalance in Federated Learning

   Chenguang Xiao, Shuo Wang* (*Corresponding authors)

   IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, (SSCI), 2021.

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Open Source Projects

Contributing

• LaTeX-Workshop
• cv_resume

Maintaining

• FedMind
• HDF5-FEMNIST
• jobSched

Services

Conference Reviewers

• Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), 2023-2024
• Springer Machine Learning, 2023-2024