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Decentralized federated learning (DFL) has emerged as a transformative server-free paradigm that enables collaborative learning over large-scale heterogeneous networks. However, it continues to face fundamental challenges, including data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shan Sha , Shenglong Zhou , Xin Wang , Lingchen Kong , Geoffrey Ye Li

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables multiple clients to train a shared model collaboratively while preserving privacy. However, the scaling of real-world FL systems is often limited by two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xinyi Hu

Recently, federated learning (FL) has received intensive research because of its ability in preserving data privacy for scattered clients to collaboratively train machine learning models. Commonly, a parameter server (PS) is deployed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Dongyuan Su , Yipeng Zhou , Laizhong Cui

Decentralized optimization has emerged as a critical paradigm for distributed learning, enabling scalable training while preserving data privacy through peer-to-peer collaboration. However, existing methods often suffer from communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yijie Zhou , Shi Pu

Federated learning has emerged as a popular technique for distributing machine learning (ML) model training across the wireless edge. In this paper, we propose two timescale hybrid federated learning (TT-HF), a semi-decentralized learning…

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) trains models in a collaborative and privacy-preserving manner while removing model centralization risks and improving communication bottlenecks. However, DFL faces challenges in efficient…

When scaling distributed training, the communication overhead is often the bottleneck. In this paper, we propose a novel SGD variant with reduced communication and adaptive learning rates. We prove the convergence of the proposed algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Cong Xie , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta , Haibin Lin

Federated learning (FL) is one of the popular distributed machine learning (ML) solutions but incurs significant communication and computation costs at edge devices. Federated split learning (FSL) can train sub-models in parallel and reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yujia Mu , Cong Shen

Network-distributed optimization has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its ever-increasing applications. However, the classic decentralized gradient descent (DGD) algorithm is communication-inefficient for large-scale…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Xin Zhang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu , Elizabeth S. Bentley

There is significant recent interest to parallelize deep learning algorithms in order to handle the enormous growth in data and model sizes. While most advances focus on model parallelization and engaging multiple computing agents via using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-27 Zhanhong Jiang , Aditya Balu , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

Although Federated Learning has been widely studied in recent years, there are still high overhead expenses in each communication round for large-scale models such as Vision Transformer. To lower the communication complexity, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junkang Liu , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hongying Liu , Yuangang Li , YunXiang Gong

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) eliminates the reliance on the server-client architecture inherent in traditional federated learning, attracting significant research interest in recent years. Simultaneously, the objective functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yuan Zhou , Xinli Shi , Xuelong Li , Jiachen Zhong , Guanghui Wen , Jinde Cao

The state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms rely on distributed training systems to tackle the increasing sizes of models and training data sets. Minibatch stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm requires workers to halt forward/back…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Qinggang Zhou , Yawen Zhang , Pengcheng Li , Xiaoyong Liu , Jun Yang , Runsheng Wang , Ru Huang

Federated Learning (FL) makes a large amount of edge computing devices (e.g., mobile phones) jointly learn a global model without data sharing. In FL, data are generated in a decentralized manner with high heterogeneity. This paper studies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-20 Xiang Li , Jiadong Liang , Xiangyu Chang , Zhihua Zhang

Decentralized Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is an emerging neural network training approach that enables multiple agents to train a model collaboratively and simultaneously. Rather than using a central parameter server to collect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Lisang Ding , Kexin Jin , Bicheng Ying , Kun Yuan , Wotao Yin

Network consensus optimization has received increasing attention in recent years and has found important applications in many scientific and engineering fields. To solve network consensus optimization problems, one of the most well-known…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xin Zhang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu , Elizabeth S. Bentley

Decentralized learning provides a scalable alternative to parameter-server-based training, yet its performance is often hindered by limited peer-to-peer communication. In this paper, we study how communication should be scheduled over time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tongtian Zhu , Tianyu Zhang , Mingze Wang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Can Wang

Recent developments and emerging use cases, such as smart Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge AI, have sparked considerable interest in the training of neural networks over fully decentralized (serverless) networks. One of the major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Eunjeong Jeong , Marios Kountouris

A fundamental issue for federated learning (FL) is how to achieve optimal model performance under highly dynamic communication environments. This issue can be alleviated by the fact that modern edge devices usually can connect to the edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Haizhou Du , Xiaojie Feng , Qiao Xiang , Haoyu Liu

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed learning across multiple clients without sharing raw data. When statistical heterogeneity across clients is severe, Clustered Federated Learning (CFL) can improve performance by grouping similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Sota Sugawara , Yuji Kawamata , Akihiro Toyoda , Tomoru Nakayama , Yukihiko Okada