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Federated learning is widely used to learn intelligent models from decentralized data. In federated learning, clients need to communicate their local model updates in each iteration of model learning. However, model updates are large in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training across decentralized data, but faces key challenges of bidirectional communication overhead and client-side data heterogeneity. To address communication costs while embracing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiacheng Cheng , Xu Zhang , Guanghui Qiu , Yifang Zhang , Yinchuan Li , Kaiyuan Feng

Modern mobile devices have access to a wealth of data suitable for learning models, which in turn can greatly improve the user experience on the device. For example, language models can improve speech recognition and text entry, and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 H. Brendan McMahan , Eider Moore , Daniel Ramage , Seth Hampson , Blaise Agüera y Arcas

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

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 the training of a model leveraging decentralized data in client sites while preserving privacy by not collecting data. However, one of the significant challenges of FL is limited computation and low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Riyasat Ohib , Bishal Thapaliya , Pratyush Gaggenapalli , Jingyu Liu , Vince Calhoun , Sergey Plis

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

Communication efficiency is a widely recognised research problem in Federated Learning (FL), with recent work focused on developing techniques for efficient compression, distribution and aggregation of model parameters between clients and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Chamath Palihawadana , Nirmalie Wiratunga , Anjana Wijekoon , Harsha Kalutarage

Federated learning enables cooperative training among massively distributed clients by sharing their learned local model parameters. However, with increasing model size, deploying federated learning requires a large communication bandwidth,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Rui Song , Liguo Zhou , Lingjuan Lyu , Andreas Festag , Alois Knoll

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning approach in which clients train models locally with their own data and upload them to a server so that their trained results are shared between them without uploading raw data to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Yuto Hoshino , Hiroki Kawakami , Hiroki Matsutani

Modern realities and trends in learning require more and more generalization ability of models, which leads to an increase in both models and training sample size. It is already difficult to solve such tasks in a single device mode. This is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Dmitry Bylinkin , Kirill Degtyarev , Aleksandr Beznosikov

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning method where multiple devices collaboratively train a model under the management of a central server without sharing underlying data. One of the key challenges of FL is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Emre Ardıç , Yakup Genç

Model compression is important in federated learning (FL) with large models to reduce communication cost. Prior works have been focusing on sparsification based compression that could desparately affect the global model accuracy. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Shengyuan Hu , Jack Goetz , Kshitiz Malik , Hongyuan Zhan , Zhe Liu , Yue Liu

Federated Learning allows distributed entities to train a common model collaboratively without sharing their own data. Although it prevents data collection and aggregation by exchanging only parameter updates, it remains vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia , Pierre Genevès

In order to mitigate the high communication cost in distributed and federated learning, various vector compression schemes, such as quantization, sparsification and dithering, have become very popular. In designing a compression method, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Mher Safaryan , Egor Shulgin , Peter Richtárik

Federated Knowledge Graphs Embedding learning (FKGE) encounters challenges in communication efficiency stemming from the considerable size of parameters and extensive communication rounds. However, existing FKGE methods only focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xiaoxiong Zhang , Zhiwei Zeng , Xin Zhou , Dusit Niyato , Zhiqi Shen

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

This paper investigates the feasibility of federated representation learning under the constraints of communication cost and privacy protection. Existing works either conduct annotation-guided local training which requires frequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Haizhou Shi , Youcai Zhang , Zijin Shen , Siliang Tang , Yaqian Li , Yandong Guo , Yueting Zhuang

Communication of model updates between client nodes and the central aggregating server is a major bottleneck in federated learning, especially in bandwidth-limited settings and high-dimensional models. Gradient quantization is an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Divyansh Jhunjhunwala , Advait Gadhikar , Gauri Joshi , Yonina C. Eldar

Federated learning (FL) has been recognized as a viable solution for local-privacy-aware collaborative model training in wireless edge networks, but its practical deployment is hindered by the high communication overhead caused by frequent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Shuai Wang , Yanqing Xu , Chaoqun You , Mingjie Shao , Tony Q. S. Quek