Workshop
ICML 2025 Workshop on Collaborative and Federated Agentic Workflows (CFAgentic @ ICML'25)
Alexander Erben · Gauri Joshi · Nicholas Lane · Huan Sun · Shiqiang Wang · Herbert Woisetschlaeger
West Meeting Room 215-216
Sat 19 Jul, 8:30 a.m. PDT
This workshop aims to provide a platform for discussing the convergence of collaborative and federated learning with agentic workflows - an emerging class of AI systems capable of autonomously executing complex task sequences. We aim to facilitate an engaging discussion among scholars and practitioners by soliciting work addressing key challenges in precision, efficiency, and personalization, safety & security, as well as regulatory compliance in the development of collaborative and federated agentic workflows.
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Timezone: America/Los_Angeles
Schedule
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Sat 8:30 a.m. - 8:35 a.m.
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Welcome
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Sat 8:35 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
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Invited Talk #1: Challenges and Opportunities for Federated Foundation Models
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Han Yu 🔗 |
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Sat 9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.
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DBA-DFL: Towards Distributed Backdoor Attacks with Network Detection in Decentralized Federated Learning ( Oral ) > link | Bohan Liu · Yang Xiao · Ruimeng Ye · Zinan Ling · Xiaolong Ma · Bo Hui 🔗 |
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Sat 9:10 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
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CAF-I: A Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Enhanced Irony Detection with Large Language Models ( Oral ) > link | Ziqi Liu · Ziyang Zhou · Mingxuan Hu 🔗 |
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Sat 9:20 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
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Invited Talk #2: Federated Reinforcement Learning: Statistical and Communication Trade-offs
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Yuejie Chi 🔗 |
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Sat 9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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Coffee Break (light breakfast provided by CFAgentic)
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Sat 10:00 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
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Invited Talk #3: The Importance of Exploration for Test-Time Scaling
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Aviral Kumar 🔗 |
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Sat 10:25 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.
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MAD-Sherlock: Multi-Agent Debate for Visual Misinformation Detection ( Oral ) > link | Kumud Lakara · Georgia Channing · Juil Sock · Christian Rupprecht · Phil Torr · John Collomosse · Christian Schroeder de Witt 🔗 |
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Sat 10:35 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
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Interpretable Multi-Agent Communication via Information Gating ( Oral ) > link | Stav Belogolovsky · Eran Iceland · Itay Naeh · Ariel Barel · Shie Mannor 🔗 |
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Sat 10:45 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.
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Invited Talk #4: Collaborative and Federated Agentic AI via AG2
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Chi Wang 🔗 |
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Sat 11:10 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.
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Invited Talk #5: Learning over Heterogeneous Networks: From Convergence Analysis to Intelligent Control
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Christopher G. Brinton 🔗 |
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Sat 11:35 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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Poster Session
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Sat 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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Lunch (provided by ICML conference)
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Sat 1:00 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
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Invited Talk #6: Breaking Out of the Problem Set: Self-Discovered Reasoning Environments
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Nick Haber 🔗 |
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Sat 1:25 p.m. - 1:35 p.m.
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AGENT KB: A Hierarchical Memory Framework for Cross-Domain Agentic Problem Solving ( Oral ) > link |
14 presentersRobert Tang · Tianrui Qin · Tianhao Peng · Ziyang Zhou · Daniel Shao · Tingting Du · Xinming Wei · He Zhu · Ge Zhang · Jiaheng Liu · Xingyao Wang · Sirui Hong · Chenglin Wu · Wangchunshu Zhou |
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Sat 1:35 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
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Generalizing Trust: Weak-to-Strong Trustworthiness in Language Models ( Oral ) > link | Lillian Sun · Martin Pawelczyk · Zhenting Qi · Aounon Kumar · Himabindu Lakkaraju 🔗 |
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Sat 1:45 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.
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Who Should Be Consulted? Targeted Expert Selection for Rare Disease Diagnosis ( Oral ) > link | Yinghao Fu · Chao Yang · Xinye Chen · Yuting Yan · Shuang Li 🔗 |
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Sat 1:55 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.
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LLMSELECTOR: Learning to Select Models in Compound AI Systems ( Oral ) > link | Lingjiao Chen · Jared Davis · Boris Hanin · Peter Bailis · James Zou · Matei Zaharia · Ion Stoica 🔗 |
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Sat 2:05 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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Invited Talk #7: Federated AI with Flower - Recent Advancements and Scaling to Production
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William Lindskog-Munzing 🔗 |
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Sat 2:30 p.m. - 2:55 p.m.
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Invited Talk #8: Building GPU-Accelerated Federated Agents
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Jay Rodge 🔗 |
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Sat 2:55 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Coffee Break (snacks provided by CFAgentic)
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Sat 3:30 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.
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Invited Talk #9: What does it mean for agentic AI to preserve privacy?
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Niloofar Mireshghallah 🔗 |
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Sat 3:55 p.m. - 4:05 p.m.
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MobileA3gent: Training Mobile GUI Agents Using Decentralized Self-Sourced Data from Diverse Users ( Oral ) > link | WenHao Wang · Mengying Yuan · Zijie Yu · Guangyi Liu · Rui Ye · Tian Jin · Siheng Chen · Yanfeng Wang 🔗 |
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Sat 4:05 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
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Mitigating Unintended Memorization with LoRA in Federated Learning for LLMs ( Oral ) > link | Thierry Bossy · Julien Vignoud · Tahseen Rabbani · Juan R. Troncoso-Pastoriza · Martin Jaggi 🔗 |
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Sat 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
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Panel Discussion: Will the future of AI agents be collaborative and federated?
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Sat 5:15 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.
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Awards & Closing Remarks
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Position: Agentic Federated Learning for AI-Driven Strategy Design and Optimization ( Poster ) > link | Haoyuan Li · Jindong Wang · Mathias Funk · Aaqib Saeed 🔗 |
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Bidding for Influence: Auction-Driven Diffusion Image Generation ( Poster ) > link | Lillian Sun · Henry Huang · Fucheng Zhu · Giannis Daras · Constantinos Daskalakis 🔗 |
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Advancing Agentic AI: Decentralized and Verifiable Collaboration for Next-Generation Foundation Model Development ( Poster ) > link | Arpita Sarker · Arpita Sarker · Alexander Jesser 🔗 |
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Vision: How to fully unleash the productivity of Agentic AI? Decentralized Agent Swarm Network ( Poster ) > link | Rui Sun · Zhipeng Wang · Jiahao Sun · Rajiv Ranjan 🔗 |
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Fluid Democracy in Federated Data Aggregation ( Poster ) > link | Aditya Kesari · Krishna Reddy Kesari 🔗 |
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Parrot: An Agentic Classroom AI ( Poster ) > link | Kalena Dai · Arya Sarukkai 🔗 |
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Multiple Automated Finance Integration Agents (MAFIA) With Self-Healing ( Poster ) > link | Arya Sarukkai · Shaohui Sun · Wei Dai 🔗 |
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Federated Submodular Maximization: Improved Communication Rounds and Bit Complexity ( Poster ) > link | Akbar Rafiey · Sreeharsh Namani · Neophytos Charalambides 🔗 |
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DP-AdamW: Investigating Decoupled Weight Decay and Bias Correction in Private Deep Learning ( Poster ) > link | Lillian Sun · Kevin Cong · Jay Chooi · Russell Li 🔗 |
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DebFlow: Automating Agent Creation via Agent Debate ( Poster ) > link | Jinwei Su · Yinghui Xia · Ronghua Shi · Jianhui Wang · Jianuo Huang · Yijin Wang · TIANYU SHI · Yang Jingsong · Lewei He 🔗 |
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Private Federated Learning with Provable Convergence via Smoothed Normalization ( Poster ) > link | Egor Shulgin · Sarit Khirirat · Peter Richtarik 🔗 |
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LoRA-FL: A Low-Rank Adversarial Attack for Compromising Group Fairness in Federated Learning ( Poster ) > link | Sankarshan Damle · Ljubomir Rokvic · Venugopal Bhamidi · Manisha Padala · Boi Faltings 🔗 |
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Collective Bias Mitigation via Model Routing and Collaboration ( Poster ) > link | Mingzhe Du · Anh Tuan Luu · Xiaobao Wu · Yichong Huang · Yue Liu · Dong HUANG · Huijun Liu · Bin Ji · Jie Zhang · See-Kiong Ng 🔗 |
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Privacy-Enhancing Paradigms within Federated Multi-Agent Systems ( Poster ) > link | Zitong Shi · Guancheng Wan · Wenke Huang · Guibin Zhang · Jiawei Shao · Mang Ye · Carl Yang 🔗 |
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CoEM: Collaborative Editable Model ( Poster ) > link | Kaiwen Tang · Aitong Wu · Guangda Sun 🔗 |
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Federated Forgetting in Agentic Workflows: GDPR Compliance Experiments with Synthetic User Logs ( Poster ) > link | Zichao Li · Zong Ke 🔗 |
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Can One Safety Loop Guard Them All? \\ Agentic Guard Rails for Federated Computing ( Poster ) > link | Narasimha Raghavan Veeraragavan · Jan F Nygård 🔗 |
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Leveraging Uncertainty Estimation for Efficient LLM Routing ( Poster ) > link | Tuo Zhang · Asal Mehradfar · Dimitrios Dimitriadis · Salman Avestimehr 🔗 |
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EconEvals: Benchmarks and Litmus Tests for LLM Agents in Unknown Environments ( Poster ) > link | Sara Fish · Julia Shephard · Minkai Li · Ran Shorrer · Yannai A. Gonczarowski 🔗 |
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FEDTAIL: Federated Long-Tailed Domain Generalization with Sharpness-Guided Gradient Matching ( Poster ) > link | Sunny Gupta · Nikita Jangid · Shounak Das · Amit Sethi 🔗 |
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Spatio-Temporal Gradient Matching for Federated Continual Learning ( Poster ) > link | Minh-Duong Nguyen · Le-Tuan Nguyen · Quoc-Viet Pham 🔗 |