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Federated Learning (FL) is used to learn machine learning models with data that is partitioned across multiple clients, including resource-constrained edge devices. It is therefore important to devise solutions that are efficient in terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Durga Sivasubramanian , Lokesh Nagalapatti , Rishabh Iyer , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

We address the prominent communication bottleneck in federated learning (FL). We specifically consider stochastic FL, in which models or compressed model updates are specified by distributions rather than deterministic parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Nir Weinberger , Deniz Gündüz

The communication of gradients is costly for training deep neural networks with multiple devices in computer vision applications. In particular, the growing size of deep learning models leads to higher communication overheads that defy the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 An Xu , Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

In contrast to training traditional machine learning (ML) models in data centers, federated learning (FL) trains ML models over local datasets contained on resource-constrained heterogeneous edge devices. Existing FL algorithms aim to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 El Houcine Bergou , Konstantin Burlachenko , Aritra Dutta , Peter Richtárik

Latent generative models are increasingly shifting from traditional VAEs toward representation autoencoders and semantically aligned latent spaces, which lift images into higher-dimensional feature domains where semantic factors become more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Xu Duan , Dongmei Chen

Devices participating in federated learning (FL) typically have heterogeneous communication, computation, and memory resources. However, in synchronous FL, all devices need to finish training by the same deadline dictated by the server. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Kilian Pfeiffer , Martin Rapp , Ramin Khalili , Jörg Henkel

We propose a communication-efficient optimally structured gradient coding scheme to jointly address straggler resilience and communication efficiency in heterogeneous distributed learning. By establishing a unified framework that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Heekang Song , Wan Choi

Edge computing allows artificial intelligence and machine learning models to be deployed on edge devices, where they can learn from local data and collaborate to form a global model. Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Chris Xing Tian , Yibing Liu , Haoliang Li , Ray C. C. Cheung , Shiqi Wang

Communication efficiency in federated learning (FL) remains a critical challenge for resource-constrained environments. While prototype-based FL reduces communication overhead by sharing class prototypes-mean activations in the penultimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Gyuejeong Lee , Daeyoung Choi

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 graph learning is a widely recognized technique that promotes collaborative training of graph neural networks (GNNs) by multi-client graphs.However, existing approaches heavily rely on the communication of model parameters or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Hao Zhang , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Lianglin Hu

We consider the problem of deep neural net compression by quantization: given a large, reference net, we want to quantize its real-valued weights using a codebook with $K$ entries so that the training loss of the quantized net is minimal.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Yerlan Idelbayev

Different federated optimization algorithms typically employ distinct client-selection strategies: some methods communicate only with a randomly sampled subset of clients at each round, while others need to periodically communicate with all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xiaowen Jiang , Anton Rodomanov , Sebastian U. Stich

Information compression is essential to reduce communication cost in distributed optimization over peer-to-peer networks. This paper proposes a communication-efficient linearly convergent distributed (COLD) algorithm to solve strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Jiaqi Zhang , Keyou You , Lihua Xie

We explore a scheme that enables the training of a deep neural network in a Federated Learning configuration over an additive white Gaussian noise channel. The goal is to create a low complexity, linear compression strategy, called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Michail Gkagkos , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades

Federated Learning (FL) has garnered increasing attention due to its unique characteristic of allowing heterogeneous clients to process their private data locally and interact with a central server, while being respectful of privacy. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Kai Yi , Georg Meinhardt , Laurent Condat , Peter Richtárik

This paper addresses the challenges of training large neural network models under federated learning settings: high on-device memory usage and communication cost. The proposed Online Model Compression (OMC) provides a framework that stores…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Tien-Ju Yang , Yonghui Xiao , Giovanni Motta , Françoise Beaufays , Rajiv Mathews , Mingqing Chen

As a paradigm of distributed machine learning, federated learning typically requires all edge devices to train a complete model locally. However, with the increasing scale of artificial intelligence models, the limited resources on edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Junhe Zhang , Wanli Ni , Dongyu Wang

Communication constraints are one of the major challenges preventing the wide-spread adoption of Federated Learning systems. Recently, Federated Distillation (FD), a new algorithmic paradigm for Federated Learning with fundamentally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Felix Sattler , Arturo Marban , Roman Rischke , Wojciech Samek

Federated learning aims to protect users' privacy while performing data analysis from different participants. However, it is challenging to guarantee the training efficiency on heterogeneous systems due to the various computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Junyu Luo , Jianlei Yang , Xucheng Ye , Xin Guo , Weisheng Zhao