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Future wireless networks are expected to support diverse mobile services, including artificial intelligence (AI) services and ubiquitous data transmissions. Federated learning (FL), as a revolutionary learning approach, enables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Zehong Lin , Hang Liu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) has recently received a lot of attention for large-scale privacy-preserving machine learning. However, high communication overheads due to frequent gradient transmissions decelerate FL. To mitigate the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Milad Khademi Nori , Sangseok Yun , Il-Min Kim

Distributed learning algorithms aim to leverage distributed and diverse data stored at users' devices to learn a global phenomena by performing training amongst participating devices and periodically aggregating their local models'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Naram Mhaisen , Alaa Awad , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Mohsen Guizani

Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a new paradigm to train machine learning models in distributed systems. Rather than sharing, and disclosing, the training dataset with the server, the model parameters (e.g. neural networks weights and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Stefano Savazzi , Monica Nicoli , Vittorio Rampa

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) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables learning models from decentralized local data. While FL offers appealing properties for clients' data privacy, it imposes high communication burdens for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Saeed Khalilian , Vasileios Tsouvalas , Tanir Ozcelebi , Nirvana Meratnia

Recent work has shown that 8-bit floating point (FP8) can be used for efficiently training neural networks with reduced computational cost compared to training in FP32/FP16. In this work, we investigate the use of FP8 training in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Bokun Wang , Axel Berg , Durmus Alp Emre Acar , Chuteng Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a fundamental learning paradigm to harness massive data scattered at geo-distributed edge devices in a privacy-preserving way. Given the heterogeneous deployment of edge devices, however, their data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Mulei Ma , Chenyu Gong , Liekang Zeng , Yang Yang , Liantao Wu

Federated learning is a promising distributed machine learning paradigm that can effectively exploit large-scale data without exposing users' privacy. However, it may incur significant communication overhead, thereby potentially impairing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shiwei Li , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Xing Tang , Yining Qi , Shijie Xu , Weihong Luo , Yuhua Li , Xiuqiang He , Ruixuan Li

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 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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Dimitrios Kritsiolis , Constantine Kotropoulos

In Federated Learning (FL) client devices connected over the internet collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with a central server or with other clients. The seminal Federated Averaging (FedAvg)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min

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 (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of devices to collaboratively learn a model without sharing their raw data. Despite its practical efficiency and effectiveness, the iterative on-device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Bing Luo , Xiang Li , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Existing federated learning paradigms usually extensively exchange distributed models at a central solver to achieve a more powerful model. However, this would incur severe communication burden between a server and multiple clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Ping Liu , Xin Yu , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) is a well-known framework for successfully performing a learning task in an edge computing scenario where the devices involved have limited resources and incomplete data representation. The basic assumption of FL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Lorenzo Valerio , Chiara Boldrini , Andrea Passarella , János Kertész , Márton Karsai , Gerardo Iñiguez

In federated learning (FL), a machine learning model is trained on multiple nodes in a decentralized manner, while keeping the data local and not shared with other nodes. However, FL requires the nodes to also send information on the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Mohammad Aghapour , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad

This paper studies a federated edge learning system, in which an edge server coordinates a set of edge devices to train a shared machine learning model based on their locally distributed data samples. During the distributed training, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Xiaopeng Mo , Jie Xu

Existing approaches in Federated Learning (FL) mainly focus on sending model parameters or gradients from clients to a server. However, these methods are plagued by significant inefficiency, privacy, and security concerns. Thanks to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jie Zhang , Xiaohua Qi , Bo Zhao

Federated learning enables decentralized model training while preserving data privacy, yet it faces challenges in balancing communication efficiency, model performance, and privacy protection. To address these trade-offs, we formulate FL as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Chengui Xiao , Songbai Liu