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Federated Learning enables one to jointly train a machine learning model across distributed clients holding sensitive datasets. In real-world settings, this approach is hindered by expensive communication and privacy concerns. Both of these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-19 Constance Beguier , Mathieu Andreux , Eric W. Tramel

We present a new method that includes three key components of distributed optimization and federated learning: variance reduction of stochastic gradients, partial participation, and compressed communication. We prove that the new method has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Alexander Tyurin , Peter Richtárik

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, thereby preserving privacy. However, FL often suffers from significant communication and computational overhead, limiting its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Elouan Colybes , Shirin Salehi , Anke Schmeink

Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine learning models without a central coordinator. In many scenarios communication between devices is energy demanding and time consuming and forms the bottleneck of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Dmitry Kovalev , Anastasia Koloskova , Martin Jaggi , Peter Richtarik , Sebastian U. Stich

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving approach to train a global model at a central server by collaborating with wireless devices, each with its own local training data set. In this paper, we present a compressive sensing approach for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Yo-Seb Jeon , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Jun Li , H. Vincent Poor

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

The task of preserving privacy while ensuring efficient communication is a fundamental challenge in federated learning. In this work, we tackle this challenge in the trusted aggregator model, and propose a solution that achieves both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Burak Hasircioglu , Deniz Gunduz

Communication overhead is a major bottleneck hampering the scalability of distributed machine learning systems. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in using gradient compression to improve the communication efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Shuai Zheng , Ziyue Huang , James T. Kwok

Communication has been known to be one of the primary bottlenecks of federated learning (FL), and yet existing studies have not addressed the efficient communication design, particularly in wireless FL where both uplink and downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Sihui Zheng , Cong Shen , Xiang Chen

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training without sharing local data. Despite its advantages, FL suffers from substantial communication overhead, which can affect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Shiwei Li , Qunwei Li , Haozhao Wang , Ruixuan Li , Jianbin Lin , Wenliang Zhong

Communication complexity and privacy are the two key challenges in Federated Learning where the goal is to perform a distributed learning through a large volume of devices. In this work, we introduce FedSKETCH and FedSKETCHGATE algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-13 Farzin Haddadpour , Belhal Karimi , Ping Li , Xiaoyun Li

Federated learning (FL) enables a loose set of participating clients to collaboratively learn a global model via coordination by a central server and with no need for data sharing. Existing FL approaches that rely on complex algorithms with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kazim Ergun , Rishikanth Chandrasekaran , Tajana Rosing

Federated learning is a widely used distributed deep learning framework that protects the privacy of each client by exchanging model parameters rather than raw data. However, federated learning suffers from high communication costs, as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Guang Yang , Ke Mu , Chunhe Song , Zhijia Yang , Tierui Gong

We consider the problem of communication efficient distributed optimization where multiple nodes exchange important algorithm information in every iteration to solve large problems. In particular, we focus on the stochastic variance-reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Sindri Magnusson

The deployment of large-scale neural networks within the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture is pivotal for enabling native edge intelligence. However, this paradigm faces two critical bottlenecks: the prohibitive memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Zhiheng Guo , Zhaoyang Liu , Zihan Cen , Chenyuan Feng , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek , Xijun Wang

Communication efficiency arises as a necessity in federated learning due to limited communication bandwidth. To this end, the present paper develops an algorithmic framework where an ensemble of pre-trained models is learned. At each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Pouya M Ghari , Yanning Shen

Communication overhead is a known bottleneck in federated learning (FL). To address this, lossy compression is commonly used on the information communicated between the server and clients during training. In horizontal FL, where each client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Pedro Valdeira , João Xavier , Cláudia Soares , Yuejie Chi

Federated Learning allows multiple parties to jointly train a deep learning model on their combined data, without any of the participants having to reveal their local data to a centralized server. This form of privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Felix Sattler , Simon Wiedemann , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

On-device memory concerns in distributed deep learning have become severe due to (i) the growth of model size in multi-GPU training, and (ii) the wide adoption of deep neural networks for federated learning on IoT devices which have limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Bingcong Li , Shuai Zheng , Parameswaran Raman , Anshumali Shrivastava , Georgios B. Giannakis

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