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Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without exposing clients' private data, but its deployment is often constrained by the communication cost of transmitting gradients between clients and the central server,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhijing Ye , Sheng Di , Jiamin Wang , Zhiqing Zhong , Zhaorui Zhang , Xiaodong Yu

In recent years, as data and problem sizes have increased, distributed learning has become an essential tool for training high-performance models. However, the communication bottleneck, especially for high-dimensional data, is a challenge.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Dmitry Bylinkin , Aleksandr Beznosikov

Due to the explosion in the size of the training datasets, distributed learning has received growing interest in recent years. One of the major bottlenecks is the large communication cost between the central server and the local workers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Yujia Wang , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

We consider distributed convex optimization problems in the regime when the communication between the server and the workers is expensive in both uplink and downlink directions. We develop a new and provably accelerated method, which we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Alexander Tyurin , Peter Richtárik

In the last few years, various communication compression techniques have emerged as an indispensable tool helping to alleviate the communication bottleneck in distributed learning. However, despite the fact biased compressors often show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Samuel Horváth , Peter Richtárik , Mher Safaryan

Distributed model training suffers from communication bottlenecks due to frequent model updates transmitted across compute nodes. To alleviate these bottlenecks, practitioners use gradient compression techniques like sparsification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Saurabh Agarwal , Hongyi Wang , Kangwook Lee , Shivaram Venkataraman , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy by keeping raw data local. However, FL suffers from significant communication overhead due to the frequent exchange of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chaimaa Medjadji , Sadi Alawadi , Feras M. Awaysheh , Guilain Leduc , Sylvain Kubler , Yves Le Traon

Federated learning is a machine learning training paradigm that enables clients to jointly train models without sharing their own localized data. However, the implementation of federated learning in practice still faces numerous challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yujia Wang , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

Communication overhead severely hinders the scalability of distributed machine learning systems. Recently, there has been a growing interest in using gradient compression to reduce the communication overhead of the distributed training.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Yuchen Zhong , Cong Xie , Shuai Zheng , Haibin Lin

Compressed communication, in the form of sparsification or quantization of stochastic gradients, is employed to reduce communication costs in distributed data-parallel training of deep neural networks. However, there exists a discrepancy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Aritra Dutta , El Houcine Bergou , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Chen-Yu Ho , Atal Narayan Sahu , Marco Canini , Panos Kalnis

The exponential growth in model sizes has significantly increased the communication burden in Federated Learning (FL). Existing methods to alleviate this burden by transmitting compressed gradients often face high compression errors, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yuhao Zhou , Yuxin Tian , Mingjia Shi , Yuanxi Li , Yanan Sun , Qing Ye , Jiancheng Lv

Distributed Mean Estimation (DME) is a central building block in federated learning, where clients send local gradients to a parameter server for averaging and updating the model. Due to communication constraints, clients often use lossy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Shay Vargaftik , Ran Ben Basat , Amit Portnoy , Gal Mendelson , Yaniv Ben-Itzhak , Michael Mitzenmacher

One main challenge in federated learning is the large communication cost of exchanging weight updates from clients to the server at each round. While prior work has made great progress in compressing the weight updates through gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Berivan Isik , Francesco Pase , Deniz Gunduz , Tsachy Weissman , Michele Zorzi

In practical federated learning (FL), the large communication overhead between clients and the server is often a significant bottleneck. Gradient compression methods can effectively reduce this overhead, while error feedback (EF) restores…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Diying Yang , Yingwei Hou , Weigang Wu

In distributed target-tracking sensor networks, efficient data gathering methods are necessary to save communication resources and assure information accuracy. This paper proposes a Feedback (FB) distributed data-gathering method which lets…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Hyeongmin Choe , SooJean Han

This work presents a new method for enhancing communication efficiency in stochastic Federated Learning that trains over-parameterized random networks. In this setting, a binary mask is optimized instead of the model weights, which are kept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Mohamad Mestoukirdi , Omid Esrafilian , David Gesbert , Qianrui Li , Nicolas Gresset

For distributed learning among collaborative users, this paper develops and analyzes a communication-efficient scheme for federated learning (FL) over the air, which incorporates 1-bit compressive sensing (CS) into analog aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Xin Fan , Yue Wang , Yan Huo , Zhi Tian

Communication costs within Federated learning hinder the system scalability for reaching more data from more clients. The proposed FL adopts a hub-and-spoke network topology. All clients communicate through the central server. Hence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Chun-Chih Kuo , Ted Tsei Kuo , Chia-Yu Lin

In this paper, we present a communication-efficient federated learning framework inspired by quantized compressed sensing. The presented framework consists of gradient compression for wireless devices and gradient reconstruction for a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Yongjeong Oh , Namyoon Lee , Yo-Seb Jeon , H. Vincent Poor

In recent years, distributed optimization is proven to be an effective approach to accelerate training of large scale machine learning models such as deep neural networks. With the increasing computation power of GPUs, the bottleneck of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xiangyi Chen , Xiaoyun Li , Ping Li