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Federated learning (FL) supports training models on geographically distributed devices. However, traditional FL systems adopt a centralized synchronous strategy, putting high communication pressure and model generalization challenge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Jing Cao , Zirui Lian , Weihong Liu , Zongwei Zhu , Cheng Ji

Decentralized training enables learning with distributed datasets generated at different locations without relying on a central server. In realistic scenarios, the data distribution across these sparsely connected learning agents can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Sakshi Choudhary , Sai Aparna Aketi , Kaushik Roy

This paper studies Dictionary Learning problems wherein the learning task is distributed over a multi-agent network, modeled as a time-varying directed graph. This formulation is relevant, for instance, in Big Data scenarios where massive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Amir Daneshmand , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Brian M. Sadler

We develop a Distributed Event-Triggered Stochastic GRAdient Descent (DETSGRAD) algorithm for solving non-convex optimization problems typically encountered in distributed deep learning. We propose a novel communication triggering mechanism…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Jemin George , Prudhvi Gurram

The training of large models demands substantial computational resources, typically available only in data centers with high-bandwidth interconnects. However, reducing the reliance on high-bandwidth interconnects between nodes enables the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sasho Nedelkoski , Alexander Acker , Odej Kao , Soeren Becker , Dominik Scheinert

Federated learning is a novel decentralized learning architecture. During the training process, the client and server must continuously upload and receive model parameters, which consumes a lot of network transmission resources. Some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yan-Ann Chen , Guan-Lin Chen

Distributed machine learning has been widely studied in the literature to scale up machine learning model training in the presence of an ever-increasing amount of data. We study distributed machine learning from another perspective, where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Yaochen Hu , Di Niu , Jianming Yang , Shengping Zhou

Large machine learning models trained on diverse data have recently seen unprecedented success. Federated learning enables training on private data that may otherwise be inaccessible, such as domain-specific datasets decentralized across…

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a potential distributed learning paradigm that enables model training on edge devices (i.e., workers) while preserving data privacy. However, its reliance on a centralized server leads to limited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yizhou Shi , Qianpiao Ma , Yan Xu , Junlong Zhou , Ming Hu , Yunming Liao , Hongli Xu

Federated learning (FL) encounters scalability challenges when implemented over fog networks that do not follow FL's conventional star topology architecture. Semi-decentralized FL (SD-FL) has proposed a solution for device-to-device (D2D)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Evan Chen , Shiqiang Wang , Christopher G. Brinton

While training a machine learning model using multiple workers, each of which collects data from their own data sources, it would be most useful when the data collected from different workers can be {\em unique} and {\em different}.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Hanlin Tang , Xiangru Lian , Ming Yan , Ce Zhang , Ji Liu

We propose a decentralized learning algorithm over a general social network. The algorithm leaves the training data distributed on the mobile devices while utilizing a peer to peer model aggregation method. The proposed algorithm allows…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-28 Anusha Lalitha , Xinghan Wang , Osman Kilinc , Yongxi Lu , Tara Javidi , Farinaz Koushanfar

With privacy as a motivation, Federated Learning (FL) is an increasingly used paradigm where learning takes place collectively on edge devices, each with a cache of user-generated training examples that remain resident on the local device.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Sean Augenstein , Andrew Hard , Kurt Partridge , Rajiv Mathews

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has emerged as a robust distributed paradigm that circumvents the single-point-of-failure and communication bottleneck risks of centralized architectures. However, a significant challenge arises as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Lianshuai Guo , Zhongzheng Yuan , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Meixia Qu , Wenyu Wang

Distributed deep learning (DL) has become prevalent in recent years to reduce training time by leveraging multiple computing devices (e.g., GPUs/TPUs) due to larger models and datasets. However, system scalability is limited by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Zhenheng Tang , Shaohuai Shi , Wei Wang , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu

Decentralized training of deep learning models is a key element for enabling data privacy and on-device learning over networks, as well as for efficient scaling to large compute clusters. As current approaches suffer from limited bandwidth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Anastasia Koloskova , Tao Lin , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Federated Learning is a new distributed learning mechanism which allows model training on a large corpus of decentralized data owned by different data providers, without sharing or leakage of raw data. According to the characteristics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Shengwen Yang , Bing Ren , Xuhui Zhou , Liping Liu

Federated learning (FL) achieves collaborative learning without the need for data sharing, thus preventing privacy leakage. To extend FL into a fully decentralized algorithm, researchers have applied distributed optimization algorithms to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Akihito Taya , Yuuki Nishiyama , Kaoru Sezaki

This work presents a new approach to decentralized training-SeedFlood-designed to scale for large models across complex network topologies and achieve global consensus with minimal communication overhead. Traditional gossip-based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jihun Kim , Namhoon Lee

In recent advancements in machine learning, federated learning allows a network of distributed clients to collaboratively develop a global model without needing to share their local data. This technique aims to safeguard privacy, countering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Davide Domini , Gianluca Aguzzi , Nicolas Farabegoli , Mirko Viroli , Lukas Esterle