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Federated learning (FL) is a popular technique for distributing machine learning (ML) across a set of edge devices. In this paper, we study fully decentralized FL, where in addition to devices conducting training locally, they carry out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Shahryar Zehtabi , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

We consider the classical two-encoder multiterminal source coding problem where distortion is measured under logarithmic loss. We provide a single-letter characterization of the achievable rate distortion region for arbitrarily correlated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Thomas Courtade , Tsachy Weissman

The explosive development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to increased interest in mobile edge computing (MEC), which provides computational resources at network edges to accommodate computation-intensive and latency-sensitive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Wenhan Xu , Jiadong Yu , Yuan Wu , Danny H. K. Tsang

Federated learning~(FL) has recently attracted increasing attention from academia and industry, with the ultimate goal of achieving collaborative training under privacy and communication constraints. Existing iterative model averaging based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yuanhao Xiong , Ruochen Wang , Minhao Cheng , Felix Yu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Modern IoT devices increasingly rely on machine learning solutions to process data locally. However, the lack of graphics processing units (GPUs) or dedicated accelerators on most platforms makes on-device training largely infeasible, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Marcelo Ribeiro , Diogo Costa , Gonçalo Moreira , Sandro Pinto , Tiago Gomes

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients cooperatively train models without disclosing local data. However, the existing works fail to address all these practical concerns in FL: limited communication resources, dynamic network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhida Jiang , Yang Xu , Hongli Xu , Zhiyuan Wang , Chen Qian

This paper presents an approximate wireless communication scheme for federated learning (FL) model aggregation in the uplink transmission. We consider a realistic channel that reveals bit errors during FL model exchange in wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Xiang Ma , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

This paper focuses on the fundamental problem of maximizing the achievable weighted sum rate (WSR) at information receivers (IRs) in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Vaibhav Kumar , Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Le-Nam Tran , Mark F. Flanagan

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

This paper proposes an algorithm for Federated Learning (FL) with a two-layer structure that achieves both variance reduction and a faster convergence rate to an optimal solution in the setting where each agent has an arbitrary probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 M. R. Rostami , S. S. Kia

In federated learning (FL), models must \emph{converge quickly} under tight communication budgets while \emph{generalizing} across non-IID client distributions. These twin requirements have naturally led to two widely used techniques:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tianle Li , Yongzhi Huang , Linshan Jiang , Chang Liu , Qipeng Xie , Wenfeng Du , Lu Wang , Kaishun Wu

In this paper, we analyze the indirect source coding problem with side information at both the encoder and decoder, as well as only at the decoder. We first derive structural properties of the two rate distortion functions (RDFs) for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Evagoras Stylianou , Michail Gkagkos , Charalambos D. Charalambous

The communication bottleneck of over-the-air federated learning (OA-FL) lies in uploading the gradients of local learning models. In this paper, we study the reduction of the communication overhead in the gradients uploading by using the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Chenxi Zhong , Xiaojun Yuan

Decentralized stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a driving engine for decentralized federated learning (DFL). The performance of decentralized SGD is jointly influenced by inter-node communications and local updates. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Wei Liu , Li Chen , Wenyi Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing data. However, the traditional FL framework is cloud-based and suffers from high communication latency. On the other hand, the edge-based FL framework that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zhenxiao Zhang , Zhidong Gao , Yuanxiong Guo , Yanmin Gong

Federated learning (FL) necessitates that edge devices conduct local training and communicate with a parameter server, resulting in significant energy consumption. A key challenge in practical FL systems is the rapid depletion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kai Zhang , Xuanyu Cao , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated Learning (FL) allows edge devices (or clients) to keep data locally while simultaneously training a shared high-quality global model. However, current research is generally based on an assumption that the training data of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Zhe Zhang , Shiyao Ma , Jiangtian Nie , Yi Wu , Qiang Yan , Xiaoke Xu , Dusit Niyato

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging framework for distributed processing of large data volumes by edge devices subject to limited communication bandwidths, heterogeneity in data distributions and computational resources, as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Yonghai Gong , Yichuan Li , Nikolaos M. Freris

We study the limits of communication efficiency for function computation in collocated networks within the framework of multi-terminal block source coding theory. With the goal of computing a desired function of sources at a sink, nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nan Ma , Prakash Ishwar , Piyush Gupta

In Federated Learning (FL) client devices connected over the internet collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with a central server or with other clients. The seminal Federated Averaging (FedAvg)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min