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Federated Learning marks a turning point in the implementation of decentralized machine learning (especially deep learning) for wireless devices by protecting users' privacy and safeguarding raw data from third-party access. It assigns the…

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of mobile devices to collaboratively learn a model under the coordination of a central server without sharing their raw data. Despite its practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Bing Luo , Xiang Li , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Although Federated Learning has been widely studied in recent years, there are still high overhead expenses in each communication round for large-scale models such as Vision Transformer. To lower the communication complexity, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junkang Liu , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hongying Liu , Yuangang Li , YunXiang Gong

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative machine learning by training models on local datasets, and subsequently aggregating these local models at a central server. However, the frequent exchange of model parameters between clients…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Liwei Wang , Jun Li , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Ming Ding

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed method for edge-level machine learning, particularly for privacysensitive applications such as those in military and medical domains, where client data cannot be shared or transferred to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Lucas Grativol Ribeiro , Mathieu Leonardon , Guillaume Muller , Virginie Fresse , Matthieu Arzel

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative learning across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, FL faces significant challenges when dealing with heterogeneous data distributions, which can lead to suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Duy Phuong Nguyen , J. Pablo Munoz , Tanya Roosta , Ali Jannesari

Federated Learning (FL) since proposed has been applied in many fields, such as credit assessment, medical, etc. Because of the difference in the network or computing resource, the clients may not update their gradients at the same time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Zhicheng Zhou , Hailong Chen , Kunhua Li , Fei Hu , Bingjie Yan , Jieren Cheng , Xuyan Wei , Bernie Liu , Xiulai Li , Fuwen Chen , Yongji Sui

It is well understood that client-master communication can be a primary bottleneck in Federated Learning. In this work, we address this issue with a novel client subsampling scheme, where we restrict the number of clients allowed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Wenlin Chen , Samuel Horvath , Peter Richtarik

Federated learning seeks to foster collaboration among distributed clients while preserving the privacy of their local data. Traditionally, federated learning methods assume a fixed setting in which client data and learning objectives…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Can Peng , Qianhui Men , Pramit Saha , Qianye Yang , Cheng Ouyang , J. Alison Noble

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data in edge environments, but is constrained by limited communication bandwidth and heterogeneous client data distributions. Prototype-based FL mitigates this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hongyue Wu , Hangyu Li , Guodong Fan , Haoran Zhu , Shizhan Chen , Zhiyong Feng

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning framework that allows multiple users to train models utilizing their local data in a distributed manner. However, considerable statistical heterogeneity in local data across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qi Le , Enmao Diao , Xinran Wang , Vahid Tarokh , Jie Ding , Ali Anwar

The prevalent communication efficient federated learning (FL) frameworks usually take advantages of model gradient compression or model distillation. However, the unbalanced local data distributions (either in quantity or quality) of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Beibei Li , Zerui Shao , Ao Liu , Peiran Wang

Federated learning is a distributed framework according to which a model is trained over a set of devices, while keeping data localized. This framework faces several systems-oriented challenges which include (i) communication bottleneck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Ali Jadbabaie , Ramtin Pedarsani

This paper presents a novel approach to enhance communication efficiency in federated learning through clipped uniform quantization. By leveraging optimal clipping thresholds and client-specific adaptive quantization schemes, the proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zavareh Bozorgasl , Hao Chen

Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning method, enables a large number of clients to train a model without exchanging their local data. The time cost of communication is an essential bottleneck in federated learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Hao Sun , Li Shen , Shixiang Chen , Jingwei Sun , Jing Li , Guangzhong Sun , Dacheng Tao

In classical federated learning, the clients contribute to the overall training by communicating local updates for the underlying model on their private data to a coordinating server. However, updating and communicating the entire model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Jianyu Wang , Hang Qi , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sashank Reddi , Sagar Waghmare , Felix X. Yu , Gauri Joshi

Federated learning (FL) is a useful tool in distributed machine learning that utilizes users' local datasets in a privacy-preserving manner. When deploying FL in a constrained wireless environment; however, training models in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Jake Perazzone , Shiqiang Wang , Mingyue Ji , Kevin Chan

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging learning paradigm without violating users' privacy. However, large model size and frequent model aggregation cause serious communication bottleneck for FL. To reduce the communication volume,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Linping Qu , Shenghui Song , Chi-Ying Tsui

In Federated Learning (FL), a number of clients or devices collaborate to train a model without sharing their data. Models are optimized locally at each client and further communicated to a central hub for aggregation. While FL is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Farshid Varno , Marzie Saghayi , Laya Rafiee Sevyeri , Sharut Gupta , Stan Matwin , Mohammad Havaei

Federated learning is a distributed optimization paradigm that allows training machine learning models across decentralized devices while keeping the data localized. The standard method, FedAvg, suffers from client drift which can hamper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Xiaowen Jiang , Anton Rodomanov , Sebastian U. Stich