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Cross-device Federated Learning is an increasingly popular machine learning setting to train a model by leveraging a large population of client devices with high privacy and security guarantees. However, communication efficiency remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Karthik Prasad , Sayan Ghosh , Graham Cormode , Ilya Mironov , Ashkan Yousefpour , Pierre Stock

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

Compressed communication, in the form of sparsification or quantization of stochastic gradients, is employed to reduce communication costs in distributed data-parallel training of deep neural networks. However, there exists a discrepancy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Aritra Dutta , El Houcine Bergou , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Chen-Yu Ho , Atal Narayan Sahu , Marco Canini , Panos Kalnis

With the prevalence of Large Learning Models (LLM), Split Federated Learning (SFL), which divides a learning model into server-side and client-side models, has emerged as an appealing technology to deal with the heavy computational burden…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yipeng Liang , Qimei Chen , Guangxu Zhu , Muhammad Kaleem Awan , Hao Jiang

Reducing communication overhead in federated learning (FL) is challenging but crucial for large-scale distributed privacy-preserving machine learning. While methods utilizing sparsification or others can largely lower the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuhao Zhou , Mingjia Shi , Yuanxi Li , Qing Ye , Yanan Sun , Jiancheng Lv

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

This study investigates the impact of gradient compression on distributed training performance, focusing on sparsification and quantization techniques, including top-k, DGC, and QSGD. In baseline experiments, random-k compression results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Shruti Singh , Shantanu Kumar

Federated learning enables cooperative training among massively distributed clients by sharing their learned local model parameters. However, with increasing model size, deploying federated learning requires a large communication bandwidth,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Rui Song , Liguo Zhou , Lingjuan Lyu , Andreas Festag , Alois Knoll

This paper introduces \texttt{FedMPDD} (\textbf{Fed}erated Learning via \textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{P}rojected \textbf{D}irectional \textbf{D}erivatives), a novel algorithm that simultaneously optimizes bandwidth utilization and enhances privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Mohammadreza Rostami , Solmaz S. Kia

We propose a Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)-type algorithm for Personalized Federated Learning which can be particularly attractive for mobile energy-limited regimes due to its low per-client computational cost. The model to be trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Sotirios Nikoloutsopoulos , Iordanis Koutsopoulos , Michalis K. Titsias

To enable large-scale machine learning in bandwidth-hungry environments such as wireless networks, significant progress has been made recently in designing communication-efficient federated learning algorithms with the aid of communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Zhize Li , Haoyu Zhao , Boyue Li , Yuejie Chi

We propose a unified signal compression framework that uses a generative adversarial network (GAN) to compress heterogeneous signals. The compressed signal is represented as a latent vector and fed into a generator network that is trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Bowen Liu , Changwoo Lee , Ang Cao , Hun-Seok Kim

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients cooperatively train models without disclosing local data. However, the existing works fail to address all these practical concerns in FL: limited communication resources, dynamic network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhida Jiang , Yang Xu , Hongli Xu , Zhiyuan Wang , Chen Qian

In federated learning, particularly in cross-device scenarios, secure aggregation has recently gained popularity as it effectively defends against inference attacks by malicious aggregators. However, secure aggregation often requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Xu Yang , Jiapeng Zhang , Qifeng Zhang , Zhuo Tang

We propose a privacy-aware hybrid framework for federated medical image classification that combines tensor-network representation learning, MPC-secured aggregation, and post-aggregation quantum refinement. The framework is motivated by two…

In the recent paper FLECS (Agafonov et al, FLECS: A Federated Learning Second-Order Framework via Compression and Sketching), the second-order framework FLECS was proposed for the Federated Learning problem. This method utilize compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Artem Agafonov , Brahim Erraji , Martin Takáč

Federated graph learning (FGL) has gained significant attention for enabling heterogeneous clients to process their private graph data locally while interacting with a centralized server, thus maintaining privacy. However, graph data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Ruyue Liu , Rong Yin , Xiangzhen Bo , Xiaoshuai Hao , Xingrui Zhou , Yong Liu , Can Ma , Weiping Wang

Large-scale distributed training requires significant communication bandwidth for gradient exchange that limits the scalability of multi-node training, and requires expensive high-bandwidth network infrastructure. The situation gets even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Yujun Lin , Song Han , Huizi Mao , Yu Wang , William J. Dally

In this paper, a Federated Learning (FL) simulation platform is introduced. The target scenario is Acoustic Model training based on this platform. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to apply FL techniques to Speech Recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Kenichi Kumatani , Robert Gmyr , Yashesh Gaur , Sefik Emre Eskimez

Communication of model updates between client nodes and the central aggregating server is a major bottleneck in federated learning, especially in bandwidth-limited settings and high-dimensional models. Gradient quantization is an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Divyansh Jhunjhunwala , Advait Gadhikar , Gauri Joshi , Yonina C. Eldar