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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

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralised model training across distributed clients without requiring data centralisation. However, the generalisation performance of the global model is usually degraded by data heterogeneity across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

As a prevalent distributed learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) trains a global model on a massive amount of devices with infrequent communication. This paper investigates a class of composite optimization and statistical recovery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yajie Bao , Michael Crawshaw , Shan Luo , Mingrui Liu

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without data sharing, but its high computational and communication demands strain resource-constrained devices. While existing methods use dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Hong Huang , Hai Yang , Yuan Chen , Jiaxun Ye , Dapeng Wu

Federated learning (FL) refers to the learning paradigm that trains machine learning models directly in the decentralized systems consisting of smart edge devices without transmitting the raw data, which avoids the heavy communication costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Xin Yao , Lifeng Sun

Communication costs within Federated learning hinder the system scalability for reaching more data from more clients. The proposed FL adopts a hub-and-spoke network topology. All clients communicate through the central server. Hence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Chun-Chih Kuo , Ted Tsei Kuo , Chia-Yu Lin

Federated Learning (FL) is a recent model training paradigm in which client devices collaboratively train a model without ever aggregating their data. Crucially, this scheme offers users potential privacy and security benefits by only ever…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Raja Vavekanand , Kira Sam

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many devices collaboratively train a machine learning model while keeping the training data decentralized. In most of the current training schemes the central model is refined by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Tao Lin , Lingjing Kong , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Federated Learning (FL) allows training machine learning models in privacy-constrained scenarios by enabling the cooperation of edge devices without requiring local data sharing. This approach raises several challenges due to the different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Riccardo Zaccone , Andrea Rizzardi , Debora Caldarola , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

We propose new techniques for reducing communication in private federated learning without the need for setting or tuning compression rates. Our on-the-fly methods automatically adjust the compression rate based on the error induced during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Enayat Ullah , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh

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

We discuss a federated learned compression problem, where the goal is to learn a compressor from real-world data which is scattered across clients and may be statistically heterogeneous, yet share a common underlying representation. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Eric Lei , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

In federated learning, communication cost is often a critical bottleneck to scale up distributed optimization algorithms to collaboratively learn a model from millions of devices with potentially unreliable or limited communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Farzin Haddadpour , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Aryan Mokhtari , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Federated learning is a promising distributed training paradigm that effectively safeguards data privacy. However, it may involve significant communication costs, which hinders training efficiency. In this paper, we aim to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shiwei Li , Yingyi Cheng , Haozhao Wang , Xing Tang , Shijie Xu , Weihong Luo , Yuhua Li , Dugang Liu , Xiuqiang He , Ruixuan Li

Federated learning has made an important contribution to data privacy-preserving. Many previous works are based on the assumption that the data are independently identically distributed (IID). As a result, the model performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Anxun He , Jianzong Wang , Zhangcheng Huang , Jing Xiao

Protecting data privacy is paramount in the fields such as finance, banking, and healthcare. Federated Learning (FL) has attracted widespread attention due to its decentralized, distributed training and the ability to protect the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Polaki Durga Prasad , Yelleti Vivek , Vadlamani Ravi

The current paradigm of training large language models (LLMs) on public available Web data is becoming unsustainable as high-quality data sources in specialized domains near exhaustion. Federated Learning (FL) emerges as a practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Guochen Yan , Luyuan Xie , Qingni Shen , Yuejian Fang , Zhonghai Wu

Federated Learning enables diverse devices to collaboratively train a shared model while keeping training data locally stored, avoiding the need for centralized cloud storage. Despite existing privacy measures, concerns arise from potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Elie Atallah

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

Despite demonstrating superior performance across a variety of linguistic tasks, pre-trained large language models (LMs) often require fine-tuning on specific datasets to effectively address different downstream tasks. However, fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Zhidong Gao , Yu Zhang , Zhenxiao Zhang , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo