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Fine-Tuning Impairs the Balancedness of Foundation Models in Long-tailed Personalized Federated Learning

Shihao Hou , Chikai Shang , Zhiheng Yang , Jiacheng Yang , Xinyi Shang , Junlong Gao , Yiqun Zhang , Yang Lu

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The pith

Fine-tuning erodes class balance in foundation models for long-tailed personalized federated learning, but gradient purification with zero-shot predictions restores it while enabling residual personalization.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that fine-tuning foundation models under long-tailed and non-IID conditions in personalized federated learning erodes their inherent class balance, causing performance to drop below zero-shot baselines. It further shows that standard personalization techniques propagate this imbalance to local models via parameter or feature fusion. To address both issues, the work introduces a method that purifies local gradients using zero-shot predictions to keep the global model balanced and frames personalization as residual corrections on a frozen global model. This matters because real-world client data commonly mixes heterogeneity with class imbalance, and preserving balance could improve accuracy for both shared and client-specific models. Experiments across diverse long-tailed settings confirm the approach yields superior global and personalized results compared to prior methods.

Core claim

The authors claim that fine-tuning impairs the balancedness of foundation models in long-tailed personalized federated learning, and that purifying local gradients with zero-shot predictions maintains class balance in the global model while residual learning on the frozen global model enables unbiased personalization.

What carries the argument

Gradient purification of local updates using zero-shot predictions from the foundation model, combined with residual correction for personalization atop a frozen balanced global model.

If this is right

The global model retains class balance even when local datasets are long-tailed and heterogeneous.
Personalized client models avoid inheriting bias from the global model through residual rather than fusion-based adaptation.
Both global and personalized performance improve over state-of-the-art methods across varied long-tailed scenarios.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same purification step could be applied to other foundation-model tasks where fine-tuning risks unbalancing outputs.
Zero-shot signals may serve as a general corrective prior in any distributed learning setting that must reconcile local gradients with global fairness constraints.
Testing the method on foundation models with weaker zero-shot performance would reveal how much the purification step depends on the quality of those initial predictions.

Load-bearing premise

Zero-shot predictions from the foundation model can reliably purify local gradients to preserve class balance without introducing new biases or errors from the zero-shot component itself.

What would settle it

An experiment showing that the purified global model exhibits no measurable improvement in class-balance metrics or downstream accuracy on long-tailed test sets, or that zero-shot purification adds detectable new errors compared to unpurified fine-tuning.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.02247 by Chikai Shang, Jiacheng Yang, Junlong Gao, Shihao Hou, Xinyi Shang, Yang Lu, Yiqun Zhang, Zhiheng Yang.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Imbalanced Global Model Compromises Personalization. We use the Balancedness metric [19] to measure performance distribution across classes (detailed in Sec. 3.2). Under the Fed-LT scenario, we observe that (a) aggregating global parameters damages the foundation model’s balanced knowledge, degrading below zero-shot baselines, while (b) feature fusion transfers this imbalance to personalized models, yi… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Balance degradation during federated fine-tuning. (a) TKL divergence and balancedness exhibit strong negative correlation, indicating that diverging from zero-shot predictions degrades model balance. (b) Head-class accuracy increases while tail-class accuracy degrades, revealing amplified head-class bias. tural distributional shift between fine-tuned and zero-shot predictions while neutralizing differenc… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Overview of FedPuReL framework. (Left) Global Balanced Training: Clients train shared PEFT parameters (e.g., LoRA modules) using zero-shot guided gradient alignment. Temperature-aligned predictions enable gradient purification via projection. (Center) Server Aggregation: Shared parameters are aggregated; personalized parameters remain private. (Right) Personalized Residual Learning: Personalization stage l… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Comparison of Balancedness of SOTA prompt-based methods on global and personalized models for CIFAR-100-LT. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Communication Rounds 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 Client Drift Ours PromptFL (a) Client drift evolution Many Med. Few Classes (sorted by sample count) 0 20 40 60 80 Contribution (%) Global Branch Contribution Personal Branch Contribution (b) Branch contribution view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Client drift and branch contribution analysis. (a) Client drift measured as the L2 distance between local and global model. (b) Percentage contribution of global versus personalized branches to correct predictions, decomposed across classes sorted. Both analyses are conducted on CIFAR-100-LT. gradient purification. For personalized models, standard approaches inherit and propagate global bias, resulting in… view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Angle between gtask and galign during training on CIFAR100-LT. D. Additional Experiments 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 69.5 70.0 70.5 71.0 71.5 72.0 72.5 73.0 Accuracy (%) Overall Performance 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 80.50 80.75 81.00 81.25 81.50 81.75 82.00 Accuracy (%) Many Classes 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 61.5 62.0 62.5 63.0 63.5 64.0 64.5 65.0 65.5 A… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Convergence of average accuracy compared to Prompt-based SOTA method on CIAFR-100-LT view at source ↗

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Personalized federated learning (PFL) with foundation models has emerged as a promising paradigm enabling clients to adapt to heterogeneous data distributions. However, real-world scenarios often face the co-occurrence of non-IID data and long-tailed class distributions, presenting unique challenges that remain underexplored in PFL. In this paper, we investigate this long-tailed personalized federated learning and observe that current methods suffer from two limitations: (i) fine-tuning degrades performance below zero-shot baselines due to the erosion of inherent class balance in foundation models; (ii) conventional personalization techniques further transfer this bias to local models through parameter or feature-level fusion. To address these challenges, we propose Federated Learning via Gradient Purification and Residual Learning (FedPuReL), which preserves balanced knowledge in the global model while enabling unbiased personalization. Specifically, we purify local gradients using zero-shot predictions to maintain a class-balanced global model, and model personalization as residual correction atop the frozen global model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FedPuReL consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving superior performance on both global and personalized models across diverse long-tailed scenarios. The code is available at https://github.com/shihaohou/FedPuReL.

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Fine-tuning erodes class balance in foundation models for long-tailed PFL, and FedPuReL's zero-shot gradient purification plus residual learning claims to fix it but rests on an untested assumption about zero-shot reliability on tail classes.

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The paper's main point is that fine-tuning foundation models hurts their balancedness in long-tailed personalized federated learning, dropping performance below zero-shot levels, and they introduce FedPuReL to purify gradients with zero-shot predictions for a balanced global model while handling personalization as residuals on the frozen global one. This is new because it looks at the long-tailed PFL with foundation models, which hasn't gotten much attention. The specific combo of purification and residual learning stands out as a targeted response to the observed issues. They do well by running experiments that show better results than current methods on both global and personalized performance in various long-tailed setups, and releasing the code is a plus for checking the work. The experiments give the claims some grounding, though the abstract is light on setup details. The soft spot is the zero-shot part. The concern that zero-shot predictions from models like CLIP are often biased to head classes in long-tailed data is fair, and if that's the case, purifying with them might not preserve balance but add bias. The paper needs to demonstrate that the zero-shot signals are good enough on the tails or include checks for that. Without that, the central mechanism looks vulnerable. This paper suits researchers in federated learning and model adaptation for imbalanced data. It offers ideas that could help in practical distributed training with foundation models. I would send it to peer review. The topic is relevant and the method is straightforward with empirical support, so referees can sort out the details on the zero-shot reliability and add rigor where needed.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that fine-tuning foundation models in long-tailed personalized federated learning (PFL) erodes their inherent class balance, causing performance to fall below zero-shot baselines, while conventional personalization methods propagate this bias to local models via parameter or feature fusion. To address these issues, the authors propose FedPuReL, which purifies local gradients using zero-shot predictions from the foundation model to maintain a class-balanced global model and frames personalization as residual correction on a frozen global model. Extensive experiments across diverse long-tailed scenarios are reported to show that FedPuReL outperforms state-of-the-art methods on both global and personalized models.

Significance. If the empirical results hold, the work identifies an underexplored interaction between fine-tuning, long-tailed distributions, and PFL with foundation models, while providing a practical mitigation via gradient purification and residual learning. The open-sourced code strengthens reproducibility and enables follow-up work. This could inform future designs for bias-aware adaptation of pre-trained models in imbalanced federated settings.

major comments (2)

[§3.1] §3.1 (Gradient Purification): The central mechanism assumes zero-shot predictions supply reliable, unbiased class signals to counteract long-tail bias in local gradients. However, no per-class accuracy, calibration, or bias analysis of the zero-shot component on tail classes is provided for the evaluated datasets, which is load-bearing for the claim that purification preserves rather than erodes balance.
[§4.3] §4.3 and Table 3: The outperformance claims for both global and personalized models are presented without reporting the number of independent runs, standard deviations, or statistical significance tests across the long-tailed scenarios, weakening the assertion of consistent superiority.

minor comments (2)

[§3.2] The description of residual learning in §3.2 would benefit from an explicit equation showing how the local model is formulated as a correction to the frozen global model.
[Figure 2] Figure 2 caption could clarify the exact long-tail ratios and client partitioning used in the visualizations.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and insightful comments. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript accordingly to incorporate additional analyses and improved experimental reporting.

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Referee: [§3.1] §3.1 (Gradient Purification): The central mechanism assumes zero-shot predictions supply reliable, unbiased class signals to counteract long-tail bias in local gradients. However, no per-class accuracy, calibration, or bias analysis of the zero-shot component on tail classes is provided for the evaluated datasets, which is load-bearing for the claim that purification preserves rather than erodes balance.

Authors: We agree that the per-class behavior of zero-shot predictions on tail classes is central to validating the gradient purification mechanism. The original manuscript prioritized end-to-end global and personalized performance to demonstrate FedPuReL's overall effectiveness. In the revision, we have added a dedicated analysis in §3.1 (with supporting tables in the appendix) reporting per-class accuracy, calibration error, and bias metrics of the zero-shot foundation model specifically on tail classes for all evaluated datasets. These results show that zero-shot predictions retain useful signals on tails despite some head-class bias, and that purification successfully counters the long-tail gradient bias, preserving global model balance. This addition directly addresses the concern and provides stronger empirical grounding for the method. revision: yes
Referee: [§4.3] §4.3 and Table 3: The outperformance claims for both global and personalized models are presented without reporting the number of independent runs, standard deviations, or statistical significance tests across the long-tailed scenarios, weakening the assertion of consistent superiority.

Authors: We acknowledge the importance of statistical rigor in reporting performance claims. The revised manuscript updates §4.3 and Table 3 to include results averaged over 5 independent runs with standard deviations for all metrics. We have also added paired t-tests with p-values to establish statistical significance of FedPuReL's improvements over baselines across the long-tailed scenarios. These changes confirm the consistency and reliability of the reported superiority for both global and personalized models. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; purely empirical proposal

full rationale

The paper is an empirical contribution that identifies limitations of fine-tuning in long-tailed PFL via experiments, then proposes FedPuReL (gradient purification via external zero-shot predictions plus residual personalization). No equations, derivations, or first-principles claims are present that reduce any result to fitted parameters or self-citations by construction. The central mechanism imports zero-shot signals from foundation models as an independent external input rather than deriving them internally. Validation rests on reported experiments across scenarios, with no load-bearing self-citation chains or ansatz smuggling. This is the standard case of a self-contained empirical method.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Based solely on the abstract, the approach assumes foundation models possess inherent class balance from pre-training that can be recovered via gradient purification, and that personalization can be isolated as residual learning atop a frozen global model. No explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are described.

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