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Federated Learning allows distributed entities to train a common model collaboratively without sharing their own data. Although it prevents data collection and aggregation by exchanging only parameter updates, it remains vulnerable to…

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In federated learning (FL), a global model is trained at a Parameter Server (PS) by aggregating model updates obtained from multiple remote learners. Generally, the communication between the remote users and the PS is rate-limited, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Stefano Rini

In this letter, we study a wireless federated learning (FL) system where network pruning is applied to local users with limited resources. Although pruning is beneficial to reduce FL latency, it also deteriorates learning performance due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jianyang Ren , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian

Recently, federated learning (FL), which replaces data sharing with model sharing, has emerged as an efficient and privacy-friendly machine learning (ML) paradigm. One of the main challenges in FL is the huge communication cost for model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Huiyuan Yang , Tian Ding , Xiaojun Yuan

In federated learning (FL), a set of participants share updates computed on their local data with an aggregator server that combines updates into a global model. However, reconciling accuracy with privacy and security is a challenge to FL.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Najeeb Moharram Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Alberto Blanco-Justicia , David Sanchez

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed learning across edge devices while protecting data privacy. However, the learning accuracy decreases due to the heterogeneity of devices' data, and the computation and communication latency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xiaonan Liu , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah , Mathini Sellathurai , Yonina C. Eldar

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) raises privacy concerns due to the risk of exposing sensitive training data. Federated learning (FL) mitigates this risk by keeping training samples on local devices, while facing the following…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zhichao You , Xuewen Dong , Ke Cheng , Xutong Mu , Jiaxuan Fu , Shiyang Ma , Qiang Qu , Yulong Shen

Large language model (LLM) unlearning has demonstrated its essential role in removing privacy and copyright-related responses, crucial for their legal and safe applications. However, the pursuit of complete unlearning often comes with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yue Wang , Qizhou Wang , Feng Liu , Wei Huang , Yali Du , Xiaojiang Du , Bo Han

Federated Learning is a leading framework for training ML and AI models collaboratively across numerous user devices or databases. We study the trade-offs among estimation accuracy, privacy constraints, and communication cost for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Arnab Auddy , Xiangni Peng , Subhadeep Paul

Federated learning (FL) is one of the popular distributed machine learning (ML) solutions but incurs significant communication and computation costs at edge devices. Federated split learning (FSL) can train sub-models in parallel and reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yujia Mu , Cong Shen

Federated Learning is a machine learning setting where the goal is to train a high-quality centralized model while training data remains distributed over a large number of clients each with unreliable and relatively slow network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Jakub Konečný , H. Brendan McMahan , Felix X. Yu , Peter Richtárik , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Dave Bacon

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed Machine Learning (ML) setup, where a shared model is collaboratively trained by various clients using their local datasets while keeping the data private. Considering resource-constrained devices, FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Vahideh Hayyolalam , Öznur Özkasap

Federated learning (FL) has enabled global model training on decentralized data in a privacy-preserving way by aggregating model updates. However, for many natural language processing (NLP) tasks that utilize pre-trained language models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Haodong Zhao , Wei Du , Fangqi Li , Peixuan Li , Gongshen Liu

In classical federated learning, the clients contribute to the overall training by communicating local updates for the underlying model on their private data to a coordinating server. However, updating and communicating the entire model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Jianyu Wang , Hang Qi , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sashank Reddi , Sagar Waghmare , Felix X. Yu , Gauri Joshi

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as important components across various fields, yet their training requires substantial computation resources and abundant labeled data. It poses a challenge to robustly training LLMs for individual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jiaxing QI , Zhongzhi Luan , Shaohan Huang , Carol Fung , Hailong Yang , Depei Qian

The traditional framework of federated learning (FL) requires each client to re-train their models in every iteration, making it infeasible for resource-constrained mobile devices to train deep-learning (DL) models. Split learning (SL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Manas Wadhwa , Gagan Raj Gupta , Ashutosh Sahu , Rahul Saini , Vidhi Mittal

The surge in interest and application of large language models (LLMs) has sparked a drive to fine-tune these models to suit specific applications, such as finance and medical science. However, concerns regarding data privacy have emerged,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiao-Yang Liu , Rongyi Zhu , Daochen Zha , Jiechao Gao , Shan Zhong , Matt White , Meikang Qiu

In private federated learning (FL), a server aggregates differentially private updates from a large number of clients in order to train a machine learning model. The main challenge in this setting is balancing privacy with both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Chuan Guo , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Pierre Stock , Mike Rabbat

Personalized federated learning (PFL) offers a solution to balancing personalization and generalization by conducting federated learning (FL) to guide personalized learning (PL). Little attention has been given to wireless PFL (WPFL), where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiyu Zhao , Qimei Cui , Ziqiang Du , Weicai Li , Xi Yu , Wei Ni , Ji Zhang , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed model training paradigm that preserves clients' data privacy. It has gained tremendous attention from both academia and industry. FL hyper-parameters (e.g., the number of selected clients and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Huanle Zhang , Lei Fu , Mi Zhang , Pengfei Hu , Xiuzhen Cheng , Prasant Mohapatra , Xin Liu