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A Federated Learning (FL) system collaboratively trains neural networks across devices and a server but is limited by significant on-device computation costs. Split Federated Learning (SFL) systems mitigate this by offloading a block of…

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With mobile networks expected to support services with stringent requirements that ensure high-quality user experience, the ability to apply Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) models to User Equipment (UE) use cases has become critical.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Andrea Tassi , Oluwatayo Yetunde Kolawole , Joan Pujol Roig , Daniel Warren

Transfer learning via fine-tuning pre-trained transformer models has gained significant success in delivering state-of-the-art results across various NLP tasks. In the absence of centralized data, Federated Learning (FL) can benefit from…

Training large language models (LLMs) at the network edge faces fundamental challenges arising from device resource constraints, severe data heterogeneity, and heightened privacy risks. To address these challenges, we propose ELSA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaohong Yang , Tong Xie , Minghui Liwang , Chikai Shang , Yang Lu , Zhenzhen Jiao , Liqun Fu , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour

Federated fine-tuning offers a promising approach for tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge devices while preserving data privacy. However, fine-tuning these models on edge devices remains challenging due to high memory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed , Kilian Pfeiffer , Ramin Khalili , Heba Khdr , Jörg Henkel

In the realm of the Internet of Things (IoT), deploying deep learning models to process data generated or collected by IoT devices is a critical challenge. However, direct data transmission can cause network congestion and inefficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Hengliang Tang , Zihang Zhao , Detian Liu , Yang Cao , Shiqiang Zhang , Siqing You

Federated Learning (FL) has become an established technique to facilitate privacy-preserving collaborative training across a multitude of clients. However, new approaches to FL often discuss their contributions involving small deep-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Herbert Woisetschläger , Alexander Isenko , Shiqiang Wang , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) is an effective methodology to unleash the potential of large foundation models in novel scenarios with limited training data. In the computer vision community, PEFT has shown effectiveness in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zelin Peng , Zhengqin Xu , Zhilin Zeng , Lingxi Xie , Qi Tian , Wei Shen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art solutions for many machine learning applications, and have been widely used on mobile devices. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices often requires the help from edge servers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Wenqi Shi , Yunzhong Hou , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Yang Zhang , Lu Geng

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on private, on-device data can empower tailored personalized AI agents. However, fine-tuning LLMs on resource-constrained edge devices faces significant challenges, including excessive computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jian Ma , Xinchen Lyu , Jun Jiang , Qimei Cui , Haipeng Yao , Xiaofeng Tao

Federated learning (FL) enables edge nodes to collaboratively contribute to constructing a global model without sharing their data. This is accomplished by devices computing local, private model updates that are then aggregated by a server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Sadi Alawadi , Addi Ait-Mlouk , Salman Toor , Andreas Hellander

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) significantly reduces computational and memory costs by updating only a small subset of the model's parameters, enabling faster adaptation to new tasks with minimal loss in performance. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Manish Dhakal , Venkat R. Dasari , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Yi Ding

Foundation models have revolutionized artificial intelligence by providing robust, versatile architectures pre-trained on large-scale datasets. However, adapting these massive models to specific downstream tasks requires fine-tuning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jieming Bian , Yuanzhe Peng , Lei Wang , Yin Huang , Jie Xu

As neural networks are increasingly being applied to real-world applications, mechanisms to address distributional shift and sequential task learning without forgetting are critical. Methods incorporating network expansion have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Vinay Kumar Verma , Kevin J Liang , Nikhil Mehta , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

Federated learning is used for decentralized training of machine learning models on a large number (millions) of edge mobile devices. It is challenging because mobile devices often have limited communication bandwidth and local computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Hakim Sidahmed , Zheng Xu , Ankush Garg , Yuan Cao , Mingqing Chen

Split Learning (SL) is a promising collaborative machine learning approach, enabling resource-constrained devices to train models without sharing raw data, while reducing computational load and preserving privacy simultaneously. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yunrui Sun , Gang Hu , Yinglei Teng , Dunbo Cai

This paper proposes Shoggoth, an efficient edge-cloud collaborative architecture, for boosting inference performance on real-time video of changing scenes. Shoggoth uses online knowledge distillation to improve the accuracy of models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Liang Wang , Kai Lu , Nan Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang , Jiguang Wan , Guokuan Li , Jing Xiao

As AI models expand in size, it has become increasingly challenging to deploy federated learning (FL) on resource-constrained edge devices. To tackle this issue, split federated learning (SFL) has emerged as an FL framework with reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zheng Lin , Wei Wei , Zhe Chen , Chan-Tong Lam , Xianhao Chen , Yue Gao , Jun Luo

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in natural language processing and content generation. However, current LLMs heavily rely on cloud computing, leading to prolonged latency, high bandwidth cost, and privacy concerns.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mingjin Zhang , Jiannong Cao , Xiaoming Shen , Zeyang Cui

Fine-tuning plays a crucial role in adapting models to downstream tasks with minimal training efforts. However, the rapidly increasing size of foundation models poses a daunting challenge for accommodating foundation model fine-tuning in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shiwei Ding , Lan Zhang , Zhenlin Wang , Giuseppe Ateniese , Xiaoyong Yuan