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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for training deep neural networks (DNNs) in distributed manners. Current FL approaches all suffer from high communication overhead and information leakage. In this work, we present a federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Guangchen Lan

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of devices to collaboratively learn a model without sharing their raw data. Despite its practical efficiency and effectiveness, the iterative on-device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Bing Luo , Xiang Li , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Federated Learning (FL) in mobile environments faces significant communication bottlenecks. Gradient compression has proven as an effective solution to this issue, offering substantial benefits in environments with limited bandwidth and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Rongwei Lu , Yutong Jiang , Yinan Mao , Chen Tang , Bin Chen , Laizhong Cui , Zhi Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed model training from local data collected by users. In distributed systems with constrained resources and potentially high dynamics, e.g., mobile edge networks, the efficiency of FL is an important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Shiqiang Wang , Jake Perazzone , Mingyue Ji , Kevin S. Chan

Federated Learning (FL) is a powerful framework for privacy-preserving distributed learning. It enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing raw data. However, handling noisy labels in FL remains a major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Seunghun Yu , Jin-Hyun Ahn , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated learning (FL) is a general framework for learning across an axis of group partitioned data (heterogeneous clients) while preserving data privacy, under the orchestration of a central server. FL methods often compute gradients of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Keith Rush , Zachary Charles , Zachary Garrett

Existing approaches in Federated Learning (FL) mainly focus on sending model parameters or gradients from clients to a server. However, these methods are plagued by significant inefficiency, privacy, and security concerns. Thanks to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jie Zhang , Xiaohua Qi , Bo Zhao

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

In federated learning, communication cost is often a critical bottleneck to scale up distributed optimization algorithms to collaboratively learn a model from millions of devices with potentially unreliable or limited communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Farzin Haddadpour , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Aryan Mokhtari , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning methodology that allows multiple nodes to cooperatively train a deep learning model, without the need to share their local data. It is a promising solution for telemonitoring systems that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Naram Mhaisen , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Mohsen Guizani , Zaher Dawy , Wassim Nasreddine

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

Does Federated Learning (FL) work when both uplink and downlink communications have errors? How much communication noise can FL handle and what is its impact to the learning performance? This work is devoted to answering these practically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Xizixiang Wei , Cong Shen

Federated learning (FL) is able to manage edge devices to cooperatively train a model while maintaining the training data local and private. One common assumption in FL is that all edge devices share the same machine learning model in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Chan Yun Hin , Ngai Edith

Federated Composite Optimization (FCO) has emerged as a promising framework for training models with structural constraints (e.g., sparsity) in distributed edge networks. However, simultaneously achieving communication efficiency and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Pu Qiu , Chen Ouyang , Yongyang Xiong , Keyou You , Wanquan Liu , Yang Shi

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that scales on-device learning collaboratively and privately. Standard FL algorithms such as FedAvg are primarily geared towards smooth unconstrained settings. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Honglin Yuan , Manzil Zaheer , Sashank Reddi

This paper proposes a novel federated algorithm that leverages momentum-based variance reduction with adaptive learning to address non-convex settings across heterogeneous data. We intend to minimize communication and computation overhead,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dipanwita Thakur , Antonella Guzzo , Giancarlo Fortino , Sajal K. Das

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of resource-limited nodes to collaboratively train a model without data sharing. The non-independent-and-identically-distributed (non-i.i.d.) data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Hongda Wu , Ping Wang

Machine Learning (ML) techniques have shown strong potential for network traffic analysis; however, their effectiveness depends on access to representative, up-to-date datasets, which is limited in cybersecurity due to privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin , Petr Sabel , Silvio Cretti , Silvio Ranise

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training across dispersed nodes without having to force individual nodes to share data. However, its broad adoption is hindered by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Mohammad Mahdi Rahimi , Hasnain Irshad Bhatti , Younghyun Park , Humaira Kousar , Jaekyun Moon

Virtually all federated learning (FL) methods, including FedAvg, operate in the following manner: i) an orchestrating server sends the current model parameters to a cohort of clients selected via certain rule, ii) these clients then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Kai Yi , Timur Kharisov , Igor Sokolov , Peter Richtárik