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Federated Learning is a leading framework for training ML and AI models collaboratively across numerous user devices or databases. We study the trade-offs among estimation accuracy, privacy constraints, and communication cost for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Arnab Auddy , Xiangni Peng , Subhadeep Paul

Federated learning has allowed the training of statistical models over remote devices without the transfer of raw client data. In practice, training in heterogeneous and large networks introduce novel challenges in various aspects like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Dipankar Sarkar , Sumit Rai , Ankur Narang

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed training paradigm that aims to learn a common global model without exchanging or transferring the data that are stored locally at different clients. The Federated Averaging (FedAvg)-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xiaolu Wang , Zijian Li , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that enables model training in communication efficient and privacy-preserving manner. The standard optimization method in FL is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Zeyi Tao , Jindi Wu , Qun Li

Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale distributed training of machine learning models, while still allowing individual nodes to maintain data locally. However, executing FL at scale comes with inherent practical challenges: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hossein Zakerinia , Shayan Talaei , Giorgi Nadiradze , Dan Alistarh

We consider federated learning (FL), where the training data is distributed across a large number of clients. The standard optimization method in this setting is Federated Averaging (FedAvg), which performs multiple local first-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sebastian Bischoff , Stephan Günnemann , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian U. Stich

Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning framework which jointly trains a global model via a large number of local devices with data privacy protections. Its performance suffers from the non-vanishing biases introduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yan Sun , Li Shen , Tiansheng Huang , Liang Ding , Dacheng Tao

Local Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) with periodic model averaging (FedAvg) is a foundational algorithm in Federated Learning. The algorithm independently runs SGD on multiple workers and periodically averages the model across all the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Sunwoo Lee , Anit Kumar Sahu , Chaoyang He , Salman Avestimehr

Federated learning has emerged in the last decade as a distributed optimization paradigm due to the rapidly increasing number of portable devices able to support the heavy computational needs related to the training of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Emanuel Buttaci , Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore

Federated learning (FL) learns a model jointly from a set of participating devices without sharing each other's privately held data. The characteristics of non-i.i.d. data across the network, low device participation, high communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zhaonan Qu , Kaixiang Lin , Zhaojian Li , Jiayu Zhou , Zhengyuan Zhou

Multiple local steps are key to communication-efficient federated learning. However, theoretical guarantees for such algorithms, without data heterogeneity-bounding assumptions, have been lacking in general non-smooth convex problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Karlo Palenzuela , Ali Dadras , Alp Yurtsever , Tommy Löfstedt

Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning method, enables a large number of clients to train a model without exchanging their local data. The time cost of communication is an essential bottleneck in federated learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Hao Sun , Li Shen , Shixiang Chen , Jingwei Sun , Jing Li , Guangzhong Sun , Dacheng Tao

Federated learning (FL) allows remote clients to train a global model collaboratively while protecting client privacy. Despite its privacy-preserving benefits, FL has significant drawbacks, including slow convergence, high communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , YangQuan Chen

Federated learning is a distributed framework according to which a model is trained over a set of devices, while keeping data localized. This framework faces several systems-oriented challenges which include (i) communication bottleneck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani , Ali Jadbabaie , Ramtin Pedarsani

Federated averaging (FedAvg) is a communication efficient algorithm for the distributed training with an enormous number of clients. In FedAvg, clients keep their data locally for privacy protection; a central parameter server is used to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li , Bao Wang

Federated Averaging (FedAVG) has become the most popular federated learning algorithm due to its simplicity and low communication overhead. We use simple examples to show that FedAVG has the tendency to sew together the optima across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Irene Tenison , Sreya Francis , Irina Rish

Different federated optimization algorithms typically employ distinct client-selection strategies: some methods communicate only with a randomly sampled subset of clients at each round, while others need to periodically communicate with all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xiaowen Jiang , Anton Rodomanov , Sebastian U. Stich

To lower the communication complexity of federated min-max learning, a natural approach is to utilize the idea of infrequent communications (through multiple local updates) same as in conventional federated learning. However, due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Haibo Yang , Zhuqing Liu , Xin Zhang , Jia Liu

Federated Averaging (FedAvg) and its variants are the most popular optimization algorithms in federated learning (FL). Previous convergence analyses of FedAvg either assume full client participation or partial client participation where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yae Jee Cho , Pranay Sharma , Gauri Joshi , Zheng Xu , Satyen Kale , Tong Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables learning models from decentralized local data. While FL offers appealing properties for clients' data privacy, it imposes high communication burdens for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Saeed Khalilian , Vasileios Tsouvalas , Tanir Ozcelebi , Nirvana Meratnia