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With the exponential growth of smart devices connected to wireless networks, data production is increasing rapidly, requiring machine learning (ML) techniques to unlock its value. However, the centralized ML paradigm raises concerns over…

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Federated Learning (FL) is increasingly adopted in edge computing scenarios, where a large number of heterogeneous clients operate under constrained or sufficient resources. The iterative training process in conventional FL introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Dezhong Yao , Yuexin Shi , Tongtong Liu , Zhiqiang Xu

Heterogeneity in federated learning (FL) is a critical and challenging aspect that significantly impacts model performance and convergence. In this paper, we propose a novel framework by formulating heterogeneous FL as a hierarchical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Yuyang Qiu , Kibaek Kim , Farzad Yousefian

Federated learning (FL) has been recognized as a viable solution for local-privacy-aware collaborative model training in wireless edge networks, but its practical deployment is hindered by the high communication overhead caused by frequent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Shuai Wang , Yanqing Xu , Chaoqun You , Mingjie Shao , Tony Q. S. Quek

Federated learning (FL) is usually performed on resource-constrained edge devices, e.g., with limited memory for the computation. If the required memory to train a model exceeds this limit, the device will be excluded from the training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Kilian Pfeiffer , Ramin Khalili , Jörg Henkel

Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training without direct data sharing. Model-heterogeneous FL (MHFL) extends this paradigm by allowing clients to train personalized models with heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziqiao Weng , Weidong Cai , Bo Zhou

Federated learning (FL) has been recognized as a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning paradigm that enables knowledge sharing among various heterogeneous artificial intelligence (AIoT) devices through centralized global model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Jun Xia , Yi Zhang , Zhihao Yue , Ming Hu , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

Federated learning (FL) is an important paradigm for training global models from decentralized data in a privacy-preserving way. Existing FL methods usually assume the global model can be trained on any participating client. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ruixuan Liu , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Yanlin Wang , Lingjuan Lyu , Hong Chen , Xing Xie

The conventional model aggregation-based federated learning (FL) approach requires all local models to have the same architecture, which fails to support practical scenarios with heterogeneous local models. Moreover, frequent model exchange…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Zhixiong Chen , Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Federated learning (FL) is an effective paradigm for enhancing the learning capability of edge devices while preserving data privacy. In geographically dispersed FL systems, such as sensor networks in remote areas, unmanned aerial vehicles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shiqian Guo , Jianqing Liu , Beatriz Lorenzo

Federated learning (FL) and split learning (SL) are two effective distributed learning paradigms in wireless networks, enabling collaborative model training across mobile devices without sharing raw data. While FL supports low-latency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Kun Guo , Xuefei Li , Xijun Wang , Howard H. Yang , Wei Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper introduces QA-HFL, a quality-aware hierarchical federated learning framework that efficiently handles heterogeneous image quality across resource-constrained mobile devices. Our approach trains specialized local models for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Sajid Hussain , Muhammad Sohail , Nauman Ali Khan

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is highly sensitive to data privacy and cybersecurity threats. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a solution for preserving privacy, enabling private data to remain on local IIoT clients while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Samira Kamali Poorazad , Chafika Benzaid , Tarik Taleb

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among distributed devices without data sharing, but existing FL suffers from poor scalability because of global model synchronization. To address this issue, hierarchical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tianyu Qi , Yufeng Zhan , Peng Li , Jingcai Guo , Yuanqing Xia

Heterogeneity in data distributions and model architectures remains a significant challenge in federated learning (FL). Various heterogeneous FL (HtFL) approaches have recently been proposed to address this challenge. Among them,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Gyuejeong Lee , Jihwan Shin , Daeyoung Choi

While Federated Learning (FL) is gaining popularity for training machine learning models in a decentralized fashion, numerous challenges persist, such as asynchronization, computational expenses, data heterogeneity, and gradient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chun-Yin Huang , Ruinan Jin , Can Zhao , Daguang Xu , Xiaoxiao Li

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising technique for edge devices to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model, while keeping their training data on the device, thereby decoupling the ability to do machine learning from…

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm that enables clients scattered across the world to cooperatively learn a global model without divulging confidential data. However, FL faces a significant challenge in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Xidong Wu , Wan-Yi Lin , Devin Willmott , Filipe Condessa , Yufei Huang , Zhenzhen Li , Madan Ravi Ganesh

The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has generated vast amounts of data, leading to the emergence of federated learning as a novel distributed machine learning paradigm. Federated learning enables model training at the edge,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Abdelaziz Salama , Achilleas Stergioulis , Syed Ali Zaidi , Des McLernon

Federated Learning (FL), as a rapidly evolving privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning paradigm, is a promising approach to enable edge intelligence in the emerging Industrial Metaverse. Even though many successful use cases have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Shenglai Zeng , Zonghang Li , Hongfang Yu , Zhihao Zhang , Long Luo , Bo Li , Dusit Niyato