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Federated learning (FL) leverages data distributed at the edge of the network to enable intelligent applications. The efficiency of FL can be improved by using over-the-air computation (AirComp) technology in the process of gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Fan Zhang , Jining Chen , Kunlun Wang , Wen Chen

Leveraging over-the-air computations for model aggregation is an effective approach to cope with the communication bottleneck in federated edge learning. By exploiting the superposition properties of multi-access channels, this approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiaxing Li , Zihan Chen , Kai Fong Ernest Chong , Bikramjit Das , Tony Q. S. Quek , Howard H. Yang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has been recognized as a low-latency solution for wireless sensor data fusion, where multiple sensors send their measurement signals to a receiver simultaneously for computation. Most existing work only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Tianrui Qin , Wanchun Liu , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Federated learning (FL) is recognized as a key enabling technology to provide intelligent services for future wireless networks and industrial systems with delay and privacy guarantees. However, the performance of wireless FL can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shaoming Huang , Yong Zhou , Ting Wang , Yuanming Shi

Communication bottlenecks and the presence of stragglers pose significant challenges in distributed learning (DL). To deal with these challenges, recent advances leverage unbiased compression functions and gradient coding. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chengxi Li , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Decentralized federated learning (DFL), inherited from distributed optimization, is an emerging paradigm to leverage the explosively growing data from wireless devices in a fully distributed manner.DFL enables joint training of machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang

A significantly low cost and tractable progressive learning approach is proposed and discussed for efficient spatiotemporal monitoring of a completely unknown, two dimensional correlated signal distribution in localized wireless sensor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Hadi Alasti

Because each indoor site has its own radio propagation characteristics, a site survey process is essential to optimize a Wi-Fi ranging strategy for range-based positioning solutions. This paper studies an unsupervised learning technique…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Jeongsik Choi

In this paper, we investigate the communication designs of over-the-air computation (AirComp) empowered federated learning (FL) systems considering uplink model aggregation and downlink model dissemination jointly. We first derive an upper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Consensus-based decentralized stochastic gradient descent (D-SGD) is a widely adopted algorithm for decentralized training of machine learning models across networked agents. A crucial part of D-SGD is the consensus-based model averaging,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Daniel Pérez Herrera , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an appealing machine learning approach to deal with massive raw data generated at multiple mobile devices, {which needs to aggregate the training model parameter of every mobile device at one base…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Shiyuan Zuo , Han Hu , Hai Jiang , Ning Zhang

Traditional one-bit compressed stochastic gradient descent can not be directly employed in multi-hop all-reduce, a widely adopted distributed training paradigm in network-intensive high-performance computing systems such as public clouds.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Feijie Wu , Shiqi He , Song Guo , Zhihao Qu , Haozhao Wang , Weihua Zhuang , Jie Zhang

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

Sensing and edge artificial intelligence (AI) are two key features of the sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks. Their natural integration, termed Integrated sensing and edge AI (ISEA), is envisioned to automate wide-ranging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xu Chen , Khaled B. Letaief , Kaibin Huang

Mobile edge devices (e.g., AR/VR headsets) typically need to complete timely inference tasks while operating with limited on-board computing and energy resources. In this paper, we investigate the problem of collaborative inference in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour , Jacob Chakareski , Morteza Hashemi

In this work, for the first time, we tackle channel estimation design with pilots in the context of covert wireless communication. Specifically, we consider Rayleigh fading for the communication channel from a transmitter to a receiver and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Tingzhen Xu , Linlin Sun , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Feng Shu

Due to limited communication resources at the client and a massive number of model parameters, large-scale distributed learning tasks suffer from communication bottleneck. Gradient compression is an effective method to reduce communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Kai Liang , Huiru Zhong , Haoning Chen , Youlong Wu

Distributed optimization is ubiquitous in emerging applications, such as robust sensor network control, smart grid management, machine learning, resource slicing, and localization. However, the extensive data exchange among local and…

This paper introduces a federated learning framework that enables over-the-air computation via digital communications, using a new joint source-channel coding scheme. Without relying on channel state information at devices, this scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Lav R. Varshney

Communication has been seen as a significant bottleneck in industrial applications over large-scale networks. To alleviate the communication burden, sign-based optimization algorithms have gained popularity recently in both industrial and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Xiuxian Li , Kuo-Yi Lin , Li Li , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen