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Hyung-Sin Kim

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preprint2026arXiv

HARMONY: Bridging the Personalization-Generalization Gap by Mitigating Representation Skew in Heterogeneous Split Federated Learning

Mobile devices face diverse resource constraints and non-IID data class distributions, requiring fast on-device inference for local in-distribution (ID) classes and on-demand remote support for client-specific out-of-distribution (OOD) classes. Hybrid split federated learning (Hybrid SFL) couples personalized client-side front ends (supporting early exit) with a generalized server-side backend for fallback inference, balancing accuracy and cost. However, under client architectural heterogeneity, the existing hybrid SFL suffers from representation skew, where features from customized extractors fail to align in the shared space, leading to a sharp degradation in the server model responsible for OOD prediction. We propose HARMONY, the first hybrid SFL framework to support heterogeneous client architectures. HARMONY modifies meta-learning to simulate diverse extractors across parameters and architectures, and to learn to personalize. To mitigate representation skew, HARMONY conducts server-side contrastive learning to align extracted features, neither sacrificing clients' personalization nor sharing raw labels. Compared to the state of the art across multiple datasets and model families, HARMONY improves test accuracy by up to 43.0%/28.3% without/with OOD, respectively, while maintaining acceptable latency.

preprint2026arXiv

Let the Void Be Void: Robust Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning via Selective Non-Alignment

Open-set semi-supervised learning (OSSL) leverages unlabeled data containing both in-distribution (ID) and unknown out-of-distribution (OOD) samples, aiming simultaneously to improve closed-set accuracy and detect novel OOD instances. Existing methods either discard valuable information from uncertain samples or force-align every unlabeled sample into one or a few synthetic "catch-all" representations, resulting in geometric collapse and overconfidence on only seen OODs. To address the limitations, we introduce selective non-alignment, adding a novel "skip" operator into conventional pull and push operations of contrastive learning. Our framework, SkipAlign, selectively skips alignment (pulling) for low-confidence unlabeled samples, retaining only gentle repulsion against ID prototypes. This approach transforms uncertain samples into a pure repulsion signal, resulting in tighter ID clusters and naturally dispersed OOD features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SkipAlign significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in detecting unseen OOD data without sacrificing ID classification accuracy.

preprint2022arXiv

Bitwidth-Adaptive Quantization-Aware Neural Network Training: A Meta-Learning Approach

Deep neural network quantization with adaptive bitwidths has gained increasing attention due to the ease of model deployment on various platforms with different resource budgets. In this paper, we propose a meta-learning approach to achieve this goal. Specifically, we propose MEBQAT, a simple yet effective way of bitwidth-adaptive quantization aware training (QAT) where meta-learning is effectively combined with QAT by redefining meta-learning tasks to incorporate bitwidths. After being deployed on a platform, MEBQAT allows the (meta-)trained model to be quantized to any candidate bitwidth then helps to conduct inference without much accuracy drop from quantization. Moreover, with a few-shot learning scenario, MEBQAT can also adapt a model to any bitwidth as well as any unseen target classes by adding conventional optimization or metric-based meta-learning. We design variants of MEBQAT to support both (1) a bitwidth-adaptive quantization scenario and (2) a new few-shot learning scenario where both quantization bitwidths and target classes are jointly adapted. We experimentally demonstrate their validity in multiple QAT schemes. By comparing their performance to (bitwidth-dedicated) QAT, existing bitwidth adaptive QAT and vanilla meta-learning, we find that merging bitwidths into meta-learning tasks achieves a higher level of robustness.

preprint2022arXiv

Federated Semi-Supervised Learning with Prototypical Networks

With the increasing computing power of edge devices, Federated Learning (FL) emerges to enable model training without privacy concerns. The majority of existing studies assume the data are fully labeled on the client side. In practice, however, the amount of labeled data is often limited. Recently, federated semi-supervised learning (FSSL) is explored as a way to effectively utilize unlabeled data during training. In this work, we propose ProtoFSSL, a novel FSSL approach based on prototypical networks. In ProtoFSSL, clients share knowledge with each other via lightweight prototypes, which prevents the local models from diverging. For computing loss on unlabeled data, each client creates accurate pseudo-labels based on shared prototypes. Jointly with labeled data, the pseudo-labels provide training signals for local prototypes. Compared to a FSSL approach based on weight sharing, the prototype-based inter-client knowledge sharing significantly reduces both communication and computation costs, enabling more frequent knowledge sharing between more clients for better accuracy. In multiple datasets, ProtoFSSL results in higher accuracy compared to the recent FSSL methods with and without knowledge sharing, such as FixMatch, FedRGD, and FedMatch. On SVHN dataset, ProtoFSSL performs comparably to fully supervised FL methods.

preprint2020arXiv

Performant TCP for Low-Power Wireless Networks

Low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) enable diverse applications integrating many resource-constrained embedded devices, often requiring interconnectivity with existing TCP/IP networks as part of the Internet of Things. But TCP has received little attention in LLNs due to concerns about its overhead and performance, leading to LLN-specific protocols that require specialized gateways for interoperability. We present a systematic study of a well-designed TCP stack in IEEE 802.15.4-based LLNs, based on the TCP protocol logic in FreeBSD. Through careful implementation and extensive experiments, we show that modern low-power sensor platforms are capable of running full-scale TCP and that TCP, counter to common belief, performs well despite the lossy nature of LLNs. By carefully studying the interaction between the transport and link layers, we identify subtle but important modifications to both, achieving TCP goodput within 25% of an upper bound (5-40x higher than prior results) and low-power operation commensurate to CoAP in a practical LLN application scenario. This suggests that a TCP-based transport layer, seamlessly interoperable with existing TCP/IP networks, is viable and performant in LLNs.