Towards Preventing Global Knowledge Forgetting in Federated Learning with Non-IID Data
Abhijit Chunduru, Majid Morafah, Mahdi Morafah, Vishnu Pandi Chellapandi, Ang Li
May, 2026Abstract
Co-authored with collaborators from UCSD and Purdue, this work addresses catastrophic forgetting in federated learning through gradient-projection constraints.
Publication
Transactions on Machine Learning Research
Work on preserving global knowledge in non-IID federated learning through gradient-projection constraints.

ML Systems Researcher | M.S. Computer Science
Distributed training, LLM post-training, and scientific ML at Argonne National Laboratory and UMass Amherst