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In federated learning (FL), model training performance is strongly impacted by data heterogeneity across clients. Client-drift compensation methods have recently emerged as a solution to this issue, introducing correction terms into local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Evan Chen , Shiqiang Wang , Jianing Zhang , Dong-Jun Han , Chaoyue Liu , Christopher Brinton

Local SGD is a promising approach to overcome the communication overhead in distributed learning by reducing the synchronization frequency among worker nodes. Despite the recent theoretical advances of local SGD in empirical risk…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yuyang Deng , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Intermittent connectivity of clients to the parameter server (PS) is a major bottleneck in federated edge learning frameworks. The lack of constant connectivity induces a large generalization gap, especially when the local data distribution…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Michal Yemini , Rajarshi Saha , Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gündüz , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Distributed training algorithms of deep neural networks show impressive convergence speedup properties on very large problems. However, they inherently suffer from communication related slowdowns and communication topology becomes a crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Tomer Avidor , Nadav Tal Israel

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across multiple clients while optionally preserving data privacy. However, communication efficiency remains a critical bottleneck, particularly for large-scale models. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arnaud Descours , Léonard Deroose , Jan Ramon

Federated learning obtains a central model on the server by aggregating models trained locally on clients. As a result, federated learning does not require clients to upload their data to the server, thereby preserving the data privacy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Yang Chen , Xiaoyan Sun , Yaochu Jin

Federated Learning is a machine learning setting where the goal is to train a high-quality centralized model while training data remains distributed over a large number of clients each with unreliable and relatively slow network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Jakub Konečný , H. Brendan McMahan , Felix X. Yu , Peter Richtárik , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Dave Bacon

With more regulations tackling users' privacy-sensitive data protection in recent years, access to such data has become increasingly restricted and controversial. To exploit the wealth of data generated and located at distributed entities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Nader Bouacida , Jiahui Hou , Hui Zang , Xin Liu

Communication on heterogeneous edge networks is a fundamental bottleneck in Federated Learning (FL), restricting both model capacity and user participation. To address this issue, we introduce two novel strategies to reduce communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Sebastian Caldas , Jakub Konečny , H. Brendan McMahan , Ameet Talwalkar

Federated learning (FL) scenarios inherently generate a large communication overhead by frequently transmitting neural network updates between clients and server. To minimize the communication cost, introducing sparsity in conjunction with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Daniel Becking , Heiner Kirchhoffer , Gerhard Tech , Paul Haase , Karsten Müller , Heiko Schwarz , Wojciech Samek

Federated learning is a method of training a global model from decentralized data distributed across client devices. Here, model parameters are computed locally by each client device and exchanged with a central server, which aggregates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Sagar Dhakal , Saurav Prakash , Yair Yona , Shilpa Talwar , Nageen Himayat

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) captures FL settings where both (i) model updates and (ii) model aggregations are exclusively carried out by the clients without a central server. Existing DFL works have mostly focused on settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shahryar Zehtabi , Dong-Jun Han , Rohit Parasnis , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

Following AI scaling trends, frontier models continue to grow in size and continue to be trained on larger datasets. Training these models requires huge investments in exascale computational resources, which has in turn driven developtment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Hiroki Naganuma , Xinzhi Zhang , Man-Chung Yue , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Philipp A. Witte , Russell J. Hewett , Yin Tat Lee

As datasets and models become increasingly large, distributed training has become a necessary component to allow deep neural networks to train in reasonable amounts of time. However, distributed training can have substantial communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz , Jonathan Frankle , Mike Rabbat , Ari Morcos , Nicolas Ballas

Federated learning (FL), which has gained increasing attention recently, enables distributed devices to train a common machine learning (ML) model for intelligent inference cooperatively without data sharing. However, problems in practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yujie Zhou , Zhidu Li , Tong Tang , Ruyan Wang

Edge computing allows artificial intelligence and machine learning models to be deployed on edge devices, where they can learn from local data and collaborate to form a global model. Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Chris Xing Tian , Yibing Liu , Haoliang Li , Ray C. C. Cheung , Shiqi Wang

This paper focuses on reducing the communication cost of federated learning by exploring generalization bounds and representation learning. We first characterize a tighter generalization bound for one-round federated learning based on local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Peyman Gholami , Hulya Seferoglu

Federated learning has emerged in the last decade as a distributed optimization paradigm due to the rapidly increasing number of portable devices able to support the heavy computational needs related to the training of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Emanuel Buttaci , Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore

A fundamental issue for federated learning (FL) is how to achieve optimal model performance under highly dynamic communication environments. This issue can be alleviated by the fact that modern edge devices usually can connect to the edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Haizhou Du , Xiaojie Feng , Qiao Xiang , Haoyu Liu

A novel federated learning training framework for heterogeneous environments is presented, taking into account the diverse network speeds of clients in realistic settings. This framework integrates asynchronous learning algorithms and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chengjie Ma