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Federated Learning (FL) is a recent model training paradigm in which client devices collaboratively train a model without ever aggregating their data. Crucially, this scheme offers users potential privacy and security benefits by only ever…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Raja Vavekanand , Kira Sam

Recently, blockchain-based federated learning (BFL) has attracted intensive research attention due to that the training process is auditable and the architecture is serverless avoiding the single point failure of the parameter server in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Laizhong Cui , Xiaoxin Su , Yipeng Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm, aiming to train a global model by exploiting the decentralized data across millions of edge devices. Compared with centralized learning, FL preserves the clients'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Bocheng Chen , Nikolay Ivanov , Guangjing Wang , Qiben Yan

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

This work addresses the problem of optimizing communications between server and clients in federated learning (FL). Current sampling approaches in FL are either biased, or non optimal in terms of server-clients communications and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Yann Fraboni , Richard Vidal , Laetitia Kameni , Marco Lorenzi

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that allows decentralized clients to learn collaboratively without sharing their private data. However, excessive computation and communication demands pose challenges to current FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Yue Tan , Guodong Long , Jie Ma , Lu Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Jing Jiang

With the promise of federated learning (FL) to allow for geographically-distributed and highly personalized services, the efficient exchange of model updates between clients and servers becomes crucial. FL, though decentralized, often faces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Grant Wilkins , Sheng Di , Jon C. Calhoun , Zilinghan Li , Kibaek Kim , Robert Underwood , Richard Mortier , Franck Cappello

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key approach for distributed machine learning, enhancing online personalization while ensuring user data privacy. Instead of sending private data to a central server as in traditional approaches, FL…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Francesco Fabbri , Xianghang Liu , Jack R. McKenzie , Bartlomiej Twardowski , Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Federated Learning (FL) has recently received a lot of attention for large-scale privacy-preserving machine learning. However, high communication overheads due to frequent gradient transmissions decelerate FL. To mitigate the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Milad Khademi Nori , Sangseok Yun , Il-Min Kim

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 performance and efficiency of distributed machine learning (ML) depends significantly on how long it takes for nodes to exchange state changes. Overly-aggressive attempts to reduce communication often sacrifice final model accuracy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Hyeontaek Lim , David G. Andersen , Michael Kaminsky

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative approach for enabling distributed machine learning while preserving user privacy, yet it faces challenges like communication inefficiencies and reliance on centralized infrastructures,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Sai Puppala , Ismail Hossain , Md Jahangir Alam , Sajedul Talukder , Zahidur Talukder , Syed Bahauddin

Federated learning (FL) is an effective technique to directly involve edge devices in machine learning training while preserving client privacy. However, the substantial communication overhead of FL makes training challenging when edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Shiqi He , Qifan Yan , Feijie Wu , Lanjun Wang , Mathias Lécuyer , Ivan Beschastnikh

Federated learning (FL) enables the collaborative training of deep neural networks across decentralized data archives (i.e., clients), where each client stores data locally and only shares model updates with a central server. This makes FL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Barış Büyüktaş , Jonas Klotz , Begüm Demir

Recent advances in machine learning, wireless communication, and mobile hardware technologies promisingly enable federated learning (FL) over massive mobile edge devices, which opens new horizons for numerous intelligent mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Liang Li , Dian Shi , Ronghui Hou , Hui Li , Miao Pan , Zhu Han

In this paper, a communication-efficient federated learning (FL) framework is proposed for improving the convergence rate of FL under a limited uplink capacity. The central idea of the proposed framework is to transmit the values and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Jaewon Yun , Yongjeong Oh , Yo-Seb Jeon , H. Vincent Poor

Federated learning (FL) enables a neural network (NN) to be trained using privacy-sensitive data on mobile devices while retaining all the data on their local storages. However, FL asks the mobile devices to perform heavy communication and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Sohei Itahara , Takayuki Nishio , Masahiro Morikura , Koji Yamamoto

Reducing communication overhead in federated learning (FL) is challenging but crucial for large-scale distributed privacy-preserving machine learning. While methods utilizing sparsification or others can largely lower the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuhao Zhou , Mingjia Shi , Yuanxi Li , Qing Ye , Yanan Sun , Jiancheng Lv

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across multiple clients while optionally preserving data privacy. However, communication efficiency remains a critical bottleneck, particularly for large-scale models. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arnaud Descours , Léonard Deroose , Jan Ramon

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative training of machine learning models over decentralized devices without exposing their local data. One of the major challenges in FL is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Md Sirajul Islam , Simin Javaherian , Fei Xu , Xu Yuan , Li Chen , Nian-Feng Tzeng