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Federated learning (FL) is a burgeoning distributed machine learning framework where a central parameter server (PS) coordinates many local users to train a globally consistent model. Conventional federated learning inevitably relies on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Zhikun Chen , Daofeng Li , Jinkang Zhu , Sihai Zhang

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server but faces challenges in efficiency, stability, and trustworthiness due to communication and computational limitations among distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shan Sha , Shenglong Zhou , Lingchen Kong , Geoffrey Ye Li

Federated Learning (FL) is gaining widespread interest for its ability to share knowledge while preserving privacy and reducing communication costs. Unlike Centralized FL, Decentralized FL (DFL) employs a network architecture that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Lin Wang , Yang Chen , Yongxin Guo , Xiaoying Tang

We propose a novel algorithm for solving the composite Federated Learning (FL) problem. This algorithm manages non-smooth regularization by strategically decoupling the proximal operator and communication, and addresses client drift without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiaojiao Zhang , Jiang Hu , Mikael Johansson

Clustered Federated Learning has emerged as an effective approach for handling heterogeneous data across clients by partitioning them into clusters with similar or identical data distributions. However, most existing methods, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jonas Kirch , Sebastian Becker , Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues , Stefan Harmeling

Multi-server Federated learning (FL) has been considered as a promising solution to address the limited communication resource problem of single-server FL. We consider a typical multi-server FL architecture, where the coverage areas of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Zhe Qu , Xingyu Li , Jie Xu , Bo Tang , Zhuo Lu , Yao Liu

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm in which multiple clients collaboratively train a global model by exchanging only model updates with the central server without sharing the local data of the clients. Due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jonas Klotz , Barış Büyüktaş , Begüm Demir

Federated learning (FL) enables wireless terminals to collaboratively learn a shared parameter model while keeping all the training data on devices per se. Parameter sharing consists of synchronous and asynchronous ways: the former…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Haihui Xie , Minghua Xia , Peiran Wu , Shuai Wang , Kaibin Huang

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

Statistical heterogeneity across clients in a Federated Learning (FL) system increases the algorithm convergence time and reduces the generalization performance, resulting in a large communication overhead in return for a poor model. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Mohamad Mestoukirdi , Matteo Zecchin , David Gesbert , Qianrui Li

In a real federated learning (FL) system, communication overhead for passing model parameters between the clients and the parameter server (PS) is often a bottleneck. Hierarchical federated learning (HFL) that poses multiple edge servers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xingrun Yan , Shiyuan Zuo , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Li Shen , Puning Zhao , Yong Luo

Federated Learning (FL) is a communication-efficient distributed machine learning method that allows multiple devices to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. FL can be categorized into centralized and decentralized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Changheng Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Lizhe Liu , Qiao Deng , Yingda Wu , Yangyang Niu , Yashan Pang , Zhiyong Feng

Learning from the collective knowledge of data dispersed across private sources can provide neural networks with enhanced generalization capabilities. Federated learning, a method for collaboratively training a machine learning model across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Matt Gorbett , Hossein Shirazi , Indrakshi Ray

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) is a serverless collaborative machine learning paradigm where devices collaborate directly with neighbouring devices to exchange model information for learning a generalized model. However, variations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Adnan Ahmad , Chiara Boldrini , Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning approach which enables model training without data sharing. In this paper, we propose a new federated learning algorithm, Federated Averaging with Client-level Momentum (FedCM), to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jing Xu , Sen Wang , Liwei Wang , Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

We study federated learning (FL) at the wireless edge, where power-limited devices with local datasets collaboratively train a joint model with the help of a remote parameter server (PS). We assume that the devices are connected to the PS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

In the traditional federated learning setting, a central server coordinates a network of clients to train one global model. However, the global model may serve many clients poorly due to data heterogeneity. Moreover, there may not exist a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yi Sui , Junfeng Wen , Yenson Lau , Brendan Leigh Ross , Jesse C. Cresswell

Federated learning is typically approached as an optimization problem, where the goal is to minimize a global loss function by distributing computation across client devices that possess local data and specify different parts of the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Maruan Al-Shedivat , Jennifer Gillenwater , Eric Xing , Afshin Rostamizadeh

Decentralized learning has emerged as an alternative method to the popular parameter-server framework which suffers from high communication burden, single-point failure and scalability issues due to the need of a central server. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guojun Xiong , Gang Yan , Shiqiang Wang , Jian Li

The Federated Learning (FL) workflow of training a centralized model with distributed data is growing in popularity. However, until recently, this was the realm of contributing clients with similar computing capability. The fast expanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Hongrui Shi , Valentin Radu