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Federated learning is a powerful distributed learning scheme that allows numerous edge devices to collaboratively train a model without sharing their data. However, training is resource-intensive for edge devices, and limited network…

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Centralized recommender systems encounter privacy leakage due to the need to collect user behavior and other private data. Hence, federated recommender systems (FedRec) have become a promising approach with an aggregated global model on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jiakui Shen , Yunqi Mi , Guoshuai Zhao , Jialie Shen , Xueming Qian

Decentralized training has been actively studied in recent years. Although a wide variety of methods have been proposed, yet the decentralized momentum SGD method is still underexplored. In this paper, we propose a novel periodic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Hongchang Gao , Heng Huang

Over-the-air computation is a communication-efficient solution for federated learning (FL). In such a system, iterative procedure is performed: Local gradient of private loss function is updated, amplified and then transmitted by every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Rongfei Fan , Xuming An , Shiyuan Zuo , Han Hu

Communication overhead is a critical challenge in federated learning, particularly in bandwidth-constrained networks. Although many methods have been proposed to reduce communication overhead, most focus solely on compressing individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Shenlong Zheng , Zhen Zhang , Yuhui Deng , Geyong Min , Lin Cui

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients without sharing local data, but is challenged by heterogeneity in data, computation, and communication. Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs), with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Yuguang Zhang , Kuangpu Guo , Zhihe Lu , Yunbo Wang , Jian Liang

Federated learning (FL) ameliorates privacy concerns in settings where a central server coordinates learning from data distributed across many clients. The clients train locally and communicate the models they learn to the server;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Monica Ribero , Haris Vikalo

We propose a novel federated learning method for distributively training neural network models, where the server orchestrates cooperation between a subset of randomly chosen devices in each round. We view Federated Learning problem…

Federated learning (FL) has prevailed as an efficient and privacy-preserved scheme for distributed learning. In this work, we mainly focus on the optimization of computation and communication in FL from a view of pruning. By adopting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zheqi Zhu , Yuchen Shi , Jiajun Luo , Fei Wang , Chenghui Peng , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated learning (FL) refers to the learning paradigm that trains machine learning models directly in the decentralized systems consisting of smart edge devices without transmitting the raw data, which avoids the heavy communication costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Xin Yao , Lifeng Sun

Large-scale distributed optimization is of great importance in various applications. For data-parallel based distributed learning, the inter-node gradient communication often becomes the performance bottleneck. In this paper, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Jiaxiang Wu , Weidong Huang , Junzhou Huang , Tong Zhang

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is the key learning algorithm for many machine learning tasks. Because of its computational costs, there is a growing interest in accelerating SGD on HPC resources like GPU clusters. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Peng Jiang , Gagan Agrawal

Federated learning (FL) aims to minimize the communication complexity of training a model over heterogeneous data distributed across many clients. A common approach is local methods, where clients take multiple optimization steps over local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Charlie Hou , Kiran K. Thekumparampil , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

Federated learning is a method of training models on private data distributed over multiple devices. To keep device data private, the global model is trained by only communicating parameters and updates which poses scalability challenges…

Adaptive optimization has achieved notable success for distributed learning while extending adaptive optimizer to federated Learning (FL) suffers from severe inefficiency, including (i) rugged convergence due to inaccurate gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yan Sun , Li Shen , Hao Sun , Liang Ding , Dacheng Tao

Intensive communication and synchronization cost for gradients and parameters is the well-known bottleneck of distributed deep learning training. Based on the observations that Synchronous SGD (SSGD) obtains good convergence accuracy while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Yemao Xu , Dezun Dong , Yawei Zhao , Weixia Xu , Xiangke Liao

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training across multiple clients while preserving data privacy, yet it struggles with data heterogeneity, where clients' data are not distributed independently and identically (non-IID). This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Incheol Baek , Hyungbin Kim , Minseo Kim , Yon Dohn Chung

Distributed and federated learning are essential paradigms for training models across decentralized data sources while preserving privacy, yet communication overhead remains a major bottleneck. This dissertation explores strategies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Kai Yi

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique for training machine learning models using geographically dispersed data collected by local entities. It includes local computation and synchronization steps. To reduce the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Pengchao Han , Shiqiang Wang , Kin K. Leung

We study federated learning (FL), which enables mobile devices to utilize their local datasets to collaboratively train a global model with the help of a central server, while keeping data localized. At each iteration, the server broadcasts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor