English
Related papers

Related papers: Bitwidth Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Pro…

200 papers

Federated Learning (FL) enables many resource-limited devices to train a model collaboratively without data sharing. However, many existing works focus on model-homogeneous FL, where the global and local models are the same size, ignoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Hongda Wu , Ping Wang , C V Aswartha Narayana

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized model training approach that preserves data privacy but struggles with low efficiency. Quantization, a powerful training optimization technique, has been widely explored for integration into FL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zihao Zheng , Ziyao Wang , Xiuping Cui , Maoliang Li , Jiayu Chen , Yun , Liang , Ang Li , Xiang Chen

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-protected machine learning paradigm that allows model to be trained directly at the edge without uploading data. One of the biggest challenges faced by FL in practical applications is the heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zirui Zhu , Ziyi Ye

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine-learning approach enabling collaborative model training across multiple decentralized edge devices that hold local data samples, all without exchanging these samples. This collaborative process occurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Venkataraman Natarajan Iyer

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning technique that maintains data privacy by providing a decentralized training method for machine learning models using distributed big data. This promising Federated Learning approach has also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Prakash Chourasia , Tamkanat E Ali , Sarwan Ali , Murray Pattersn

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which incorporates the Cloud, edge nodes and end devices, has shown great potential in bringing data processing closer to the data sources. Meanwhile, Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Rui Mao

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising framework for distributed learning, enabling collaborative model training without sharing private data. Existing wireless FL works primarily adopt two communication strategies: (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Muhammad Faraz Ul Abrar , Nicolò Michelusi

Clustered federated learning (CFL) addresses the performance challenges posed by data heterogeneity in federated learning (FL) by organizing edge devices with similar data distributions into clusters, enabling collaborative model training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yuxin Zhang , Haoyu Chen , Zheng Lin , Zhe Chen , Jin Zhao

As a promising paradigm federated Learning (FL) is widely used in privacy-preserving machine learning, which allows distributed devices to collaboratively train a model while avoiding data transmission among clients. Despite its immense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jinglong Shen , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Longfei Ma , Conghao Zhou , Yuan Zhang

Heterogeneous federated learning (HtFL) aims to enable collaboration among clients that differ in both data distributions and model architectures. Prototype-based methods, which communicate class-level feature centers (prototypes) instead…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xinghao Wu , Jianwei Niu , Guogang Zhu , Xuefeng Liu , Shaojie Tang , Jiayuan Zhang

Federated learning (FL) often suffers from performance degradation due to key challenges such as data heterogeneity and communication constraints. To address these limitations, we present a novel FL framework called FedWSQ, which integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Seung-Wook Kim , Seongyeol Kim , Jiah Kim , Seowon Ji , Se-Ho Lee

Federated Learning (FL) is designed as a decentralized, privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their data. In real-world scenarios, however, clients often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Maulidi Adi Prasetia , Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Guntur Dharma Putra

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a shared global model without exposing clients' private data. In practical FL systems, clients (e.g., edge servers, smartphones, and wearables) typically have disparate system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Leming Shen , Qiang Yang , Kaiyan Cui , Yuanqing Zheng , Xiao-Yong Wei , Jianwei Liu , Jinsong Han

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed training while preserving data privacy, but stragglers-slow or incapable clients-can significantly slow down the total training time and degrade performance. To mitigate the impact of stragglers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Honggu Kang , Seohyeon Cha , Jinwoo Shin , Jongmyeong Lee , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated Learning (FL) stands to gain significant advantages from collaboratively training capacity-heterogeneous models, enabling the utilization of private data and computing power from low-capacity devices. However, the focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Zheng Wang , Zheng Wang , Zhaopeng Peng , Zihui Wang , Cheng Wang

Federated Learning (FL) revolutionizes collaborative machine learning among Internet of Things (IoT) devices by enabling them to train models collectively while preserving data privacy. FL algorithms fall into two primary categories:…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Liangkun Yu , Xiang Sun , Rana Albelaihi , Chaeeun Park , Sihua Shao

Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning (Hetero-FL) has attracted growing attention for its ability to aggregate knowledge from heterogeneous models while keeping private data locally. To better aggregate knowledge from clients, ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yichen Li , Xiuying Wang , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Yining Qi , Jiahua Dong , Ruixuan Li

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed learning paradigm designed to build a highly accurate global model. In Mobile Edge IoT (MEIoT), the training and communication processes can significantly deplete the limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Zehao Ju , Tongquan Wei , Fuke Shen

Federated Learning (FL) confronts a significant challenge known as data heterogeneity, which impairs model performance and convergence. Existing methods have made notable progress in addressing this issue. However, improving performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Zhiqin Yang , Yonggang Zhang , Chenxin Li , Yiu-ming Cheung , Bo Han , Yixuan Yuan

Federated Learning (FL) is a way for machines to learn from data that is kept locally, in order to protect the privacy of clients. This is typically done using local SGD, which helps to improve communication efficiency. However, such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yongxin Guo , Xiaoying Tang , Tao Lin