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In this paper we address distributed learning problems over peer-to-peer networks. In particular, we focus on the challenges of quantized communications, asynchrony, and stochastic gradients that arise in this set-up. We first discuss how…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Nicola Bastianello , Apostolos I. Rikos , Karl H. Johansson

In the Internet of Things (IoT) networks, edge learning for data-driven tasks provides intelligent applications and services. As the network size becomes large, different users may generate distinct datasets. Thus, to suit multiple edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Haihui Xie , Minghua Xia , Peiran Wu , Shuai Wang , H. Vincent Poor

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed machine learning framework that allows collaborative learning of a global model across decentralized devices without uploading their local data. However, in real-world FL scenarios, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Md Sirajul Islam , Sanjeev Panta , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng

We consider a distributed multi-task learning scheme that accounts for multiple linear model estimation tasks with heterogeneous and/or correlated data streams. We assume that nodes can be partitioned into groups corresponding to different…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Lingzhou Hong , Alfredo Garcia

In an asynchronous federated learning framework, the server updates the global model once it receives an update from a client instead of waiting for all the updates to arrive as in the synchronous setting. This allows heterogeneous devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Qiyuan Wang , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen

Federated learning (FL) enables geographically dispersed edge devices (i.e., clients) to learn a global model without sharing the local datasets, where each client performs gradient descent with its local data and uploads the gradients to a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Heting Liu , Fang He , Guohong Cao

Mobile edge computing mitigates the shortcomings of cloud computing caused by unpredictable wide-area network latency and serves as a critical enabling technology for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Unlike cloud computing, mobile…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yang Li , Xing Zhang , Yukun Sun , Wenbo Wang , Bo Lei

This paper proposes to maximize the accuracy of a distributed machine learning (ML) model trained on learners connected via the resource-constrained wireless edge. We jointly optimize the number of local/global updates and the task size…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Umair Mohammad , Sameh Sorour , Mohamed Hefeida

This paper explores concurrent FL processes within a three-tier system, with edge servers between edge devices and FL servers. A challenge in this setup is the limited bandwidth from edge devices to edge servers. Thus, allocating the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Md Anwar Hossen , Fatema Siddika , Wensheng Zhang

Asynchronous learning protocols have regained attention lately, especially in the Federated Learning (FL) setup, where slower clients can severely impede the learning process. Herein, we propose \texttt{AsyncDrop}, a novel asynchronous FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Chen Dun , Mirian Hipolito , Chris Jermaine , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Federated learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their raw data. Due to its privacy-protecting benefits, FL has been deployed in many real-world applications. However, deploying…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zhidong Gao , Zhenxiao Zhang , Yu Zhang , Tongnian Wang , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo

We propose a distributed algorithm for time synchronization in mobile wireless sensor networks. Each node can employ the algorithm to estimate the global time based on its local clock time. The problem of time synchronization is formulated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Chenda Liao , Prabir Barooah

Edge computing has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to boost the performance of distributed learning by leveraging the distributed resources at edge nodes. Architecturally, the introduction of edge nodes adds an additional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Weiheng Tang , Jingyi Li , Lin Chen , Xu Chen

This work aims to jointly optimize the coding and node selection to minimize the processing time for distributed computing tasks over wireless edge networks. Since the joint optimization problem formulation is NP-hard and nonlinear, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Cong T. Nguyen , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Hoang-Anh Pham , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Edge intelligence is an emerging network architecture that integrates sensing, communication, computing components, and supports various machine learning applications, where a fundamental communication question is: how to allocate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Liangkai Zhou , Yuncong Hong , Shuai Wang , Ruihua Han , Dachuan Li , Rui Wang , Qi Hao

We investigate the problem of minimizing the expectation of smooth nonconvex functions in a distributed setting with multiple parallel workers that are able to compute stochastic gradients. A significant challenge in this context is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Artavazd Maranjyan , Omar Shaikh Omar , Peter Richtárik

Wireless federated learning (WFL) suffers from heterogeneity prevailing in the data distributions, computing powers, and channel conditions of participating devices. This paper presents a new Federated Learning with Adjusted leaRning ratE…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Bingnan Xiao , Jingjing Zhang , Wei Ni , Xin Wang

Computational offloading has become an enabling component for edge intelligence in mobile and smart devices. Existing offloading schemes mainly focus on mobile devices and servers, while ignoring the potential network congestion caused by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhongyuan Zhao , Jake Perazzone , Gunjan Verma , Santiago Segarra

DNN inference can be accelerated by distributing the workload among a cluster of collaborative edge nodes. Heterogeneity among edge devices and accuracy-performance trade-offs of DNN models present a complex exploration space while catering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Zain Taufique , Antonio Miele , Pasi Liljeberg , Anil Kanduri

In this paper, we propose a novel resource management scheme that jointly allocates the transmit power and computational resources in a centralized radio access network architecture. The network comprises a set of computing nodes to which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Mohsen Tajallifar , Sina Ebrahimi , Mohammad Reza Javan , Nader Mokari , Luca Chiaraviglio