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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…

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Federated learning is a machine learning approach that enables multiple devices (i.e., agents) to train a shared model cooperatively without exchanging raw data. This technique keeps data localized on user devices, ensuring privacy and…

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Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without exposing clients' private data, but its deployment is often constrained by the communication cost of transmitting gradients between clients and the central server,…

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Federated learning (FL) has attracted tremendous attentions in recent years due to its privacy preserving measures and great potentials in some distributed but privacy-sensitive applications like finance and health. However, high…

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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique for training machine learning models using geographically dispersed data collected by local entities. It includes local computation and synchronization steps. To reduce the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Pengchao Han , Shiqiang Wang , Kin K. Leung

In federated learning (FL) systems, e.g., wireless networks, the communication cost between the clients and the central server can often be a bottleneck. To reduce the communication cost, the paradigm of communication compression has become…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-28 Xiaoyun Li , Ping Li

Communication compression techniques are of growing interests for solving the decentralized optimization problem under limited communication, where the global objective is to minimize the average of local cost functions over a multi-agent…

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Wireless traffic prediction plays an indispensable role in cellular networks to achieve proactive adaptation for communication systems. Along this line, Federated Learning (FL)-based wireless traffic prediction at the edge attracts enormous…

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Due to its efficiency and ease to implement, stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has been widely used in machine learning. In particular, SGD is one of the most popular optimization methods for distributed learning. Recently, quantized SGD…

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Reinforcement learning has recently gained unprecedented popularity, yet it still grapples with sample inefficiency. Addressing this challenge, federated reinforcement learning (FedRL) has emerged, wherein agents collaboratively learn a…

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Federated Knowledge Graphs Embedding learning (FKGE) encounters challenges in communication efficiency stemming from the considerable size of parameters and extensive communication rounds. However, existing FKGE methods only focus on…

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Federated learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing raw data with each other. However, it suffers the leakage of private information from uploading models. In addition, as…

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With the rapid growth of data, distributed momentum stochastic gradient descent~(DMSGD) has been widely used in distributed learning, especially for training large-scale deep models. Due to the latency and limited bandwidth of the network,…

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The high cost of communicating gradients is a major bottleneck for federated learning, as the bandwidth of the participating user devices is limited. Existing gradient compression algorithms are mainly designed for data centers with…

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With the rapid increase of big data, distributed Machine Learning (ML) has been widely applied in training large-scale models. Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is arguably the workhorse algorithm of ML. Distributed ML models trained by SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Keyu Yang , Lu Chen , Zhihao Zeng , Yunjun Gao

We study federated machine learning at the wireless network edge, where limited power wireless devices, each with its own dataset, build a joint model with the help of a remote parameter server (PS). We consider a bandwidth-limited fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

Edge machine learning involves the deployment of learning algorithms at the wireless network edge so as to leverage massive mobile data for enabling intelligent applications. The mainstream edge learning approach, federated learning, has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Yuqing Du , Sheng Yang , Kaibin Huang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy by keeping raw data local. However, FL suffers from significant communication overhead due to the frequent exchange of…

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The success of current Large-Language Models (LLMs) hinges on extensive training data that is collected and stored centrally, called Centralized Learning (CL). However, such a collection manner poses a privacy threat, and one potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Huiwen Wu , Xiaogang Xu , Deyi Zhang , Xiaohan Li , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu

Federated learning enables collaborative machine learning while preserving data privacy, but high communication and computation costs, exacerbated by statistical and device heterogeneity, limit its practicality in mobile edge computing.…

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