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The next generation of wireless communications systems will employ new frequency bands such as those in the upper midband, millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz frequency bands. The high energy consumption of analog-to-digital converters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 D. Melo , L. Landau , R. de Lamare

Sign-based algorithms (e.g. signSGD) have been proposed as a biased gradient compression technique to alleviate the communication bottleneck in training large neural networks across multiple workers. We show simple convex counter-examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Quentin Rebjock , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

When implementing hierarchical federated learning over wireless networks, scalability assurance and the ability to handle both interference and device data heterogeneity are crucial. This work introduces a new two-level learning method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Viktoria Fodor

This paper introduces a new federated learning scheme that leverages over-the-air computation. A novel feature of this scheme is the proposal to employ adaptive weights during aggregation, a facet treated as predefined in other over-the-air…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Leandros Tassiulas

This paper investigates federated learning in a wireless communication system, where random device selection is employed with non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data. The analysis indicates that while training deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Daniel K. C. So , Zhi Ding

Future intelligent systems will consist of a massive number of battery-less sensors, where quick and accurate aggregation of sensor data will be of paramount importance. Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a promising technology wherein…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Amin Farajzadeh , Ozgur Ercetin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Channel uncertainty and co-channel interference are two major challenges in the design of wireless systems such as future generation cellular networks. This paper studies receiver design for a wireless channel model with both time-varying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Yan Zhu , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

Departing from the classic paradigm of data-centric designs, the 6G networks for supporting edge AI features task-oriented techniques that focus on effective and efficient execution of AI task. Targeting end-to-end system performance, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Dingzhu Wen , Xiang Jiao , Peixi Liu , Guangxu Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Kaibin Huang

Hierarchical federated learning (HFL) has emerged as a key architecture for large-scale wireless and Internet of Things systems, where devices communicate with nearby edge servers before reaching the cloud. In these environments, uplink…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Amirreza Kazemi , Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Gabor Fodor , Carlo Fischione

In a multi-agent system, agents can cooperatively learn a model from data by exchanging their estimated model parameters, without the need to exchange the locally available data used by the agents. This strategy, often called federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Halil Yigit Oksuz , Fabio Molinari , Henning Sprekeler , Jörg Raisch

We consider a distributed learning problem in a wireless network, consisting of N distributed edge devices and a parameter server (PS). The objective function is a sum of the edge devices' local loss functions, who aim to train a shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Raz Paul , Yuval Friedman , Kobi Cohen

Federated edge learning (FEEL) has emerged as a core paradigm for large-scale optimization. However, FEEL still suffers from a communication bottleneck due to the transmission of high-dimensional model updates from the clients to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Maximilian Egger , Christoph Hofmeister , Cem Kaya , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We study wireless collaborative machine learning (ML), where mobile edge devices, each with its own dataset, carry out distributed stochastic gradient descent (DSGD) over-the-air with the help of a wireless access point acting as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Tolga M. Duman , Deniz Gunduz

Various gradient compression schemes have been proposed to mitigate the communication cost in distributed training of large scale machine learning models. Sign-based methods, such as signSGD, have recently been gaining popularity because of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Mher Safaryan , Peter Richtárik

Gridization, the process of partitioning space into grids where users share similar channel characteristics, serves as a fundamental prerequisite for efficient large-scale network optimization. However, existing methods like Geographical or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Juntao Wang , Feng Yin , Tian Ding , Tsung-Hui Chang , Zhi-Quan Luo , Qi Yan

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising privacy-preserving distributed learning paradigm but suffers from high communication cost when training large-scale machine learning models. Sign-based methods, such as SignSGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Zhiwei Tang , Yanmeng Wang , Tsung-Hui Chang

Federated Learning (FL), an emerging paradigm for fast intelligent acquisition at the network edge, enables joint training of a machine learning model over distributed data sets and computing resources with limited disclosure of local data.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Hong Xing , Osvaldo Simeone , Suzhi Bi

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) integrates analog communication with task-oriented computation, serving as a key enabling technique for communication-efficient federated learning (FL) over wireless networks. However, owing to its analog…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wei Shi , Jiacheng Yao , Wei Xu , Jindan Xu , Xiaohu You , Yonina C. Eldar , Chunming Zhao

In the era of the Internet of Things and massive connectivity, many engineering applications, such as sensor fusion and federated edge learning, rely on efficient data aggregation from geographically distributed users over wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 David Nordlund , Luis Maßny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Erik G. Larsson , Zheng Chen

Recently, there is a growing interest in the study of median-based algorithms for distributed non-convex optimization. Two prominent such algorithms include signSGD with majority vote, an effective approach for communication reduction via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Xiangyi Chen , Tiancong Chen , Haoran Sun , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Mingyi Hong