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Decentralized federated learning (DFL) captures FL settings where both (i) model updates and (ii) model aggregations are exclusively carried out by the clients without a central server. Existing DFL works have mostly focused on settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shahryar Zehtabi , Dong-Jun Han , Rohit Parasnis , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

Decentralized federated learning (D-FL) allows clients to aggregate learning models locally, offering flexibility and scalability. Existing D-FL methods use gossip protocols, which are inefficient when not all nodes in the network are D-FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Weicai Li , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni , Jingbo Zhao , Ekram Hossain , H. Vincent Poor

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach to address privacy concerns inherent in Machine Learning (ML) practices. However, conventional FL methods, particularly those following the Centralized FL (CFL) paradigm, utilize a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Chao Feng , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Jan von der Assen , Enrique Tomás Martínez Beltrán , Gérôme Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

As Federated Learning (FL) grows in popularity, new decentralized frameworks are becoming widespread. These frameworks leverage the benefits of decentralized environments to enable fast and energy-efficient inter-device communication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Adam Piaseczny , Eric Ruzomberka , Rohit Parasnis , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. One central server is not enough, due to…

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) eliminates the need for a central aggregator, but it can expose communication patterns that reveal participant identities. This work presents UnlinkableDFL, a DFL framework that combines a peer-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Chao Feng , Thomas Grubl , Jan von der Assen , Sandrin Raphael Hunkeler , Linn Anna Spitz , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Federated learning (FL) can lead to significant communication overhead and reliance on a central server. To address these challenges, decentralized federated learning (DFL) has been proposed as a more resilient framework. DFL involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhigang Yan , Dong Li

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables clients (e.g., hospitals and banks) to jointly train machine learning models without a central orchestration server. In each global training round, each client trains a local model on its own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yuqi Jia , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

In recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has gained relevance in training collaborative models without sharing sensitive data. Since its birth, Centralized FL (CFL) has been the most common approach in the literature, where a central entity…

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables devices to collaboratively train models over complex network topologies without relying on a central controller. In this setting, local data remains private, but its quality and quantity can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Samuele Sabella , Chiara Boldrini , Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) has emerged as a transformative server-free paradigm that enables collaborative learning over large-scale heterogeneous networks. However, it continues to face fundamental challenges, including data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shan Sha , Shenglong Zhou , Xin Wang , Lingchen Kong , Geoffrey Ye Li

Jamming attacks pose a critical threat to wireless networks, yet existing detection methods remain largely unimodal, centralized and resource-intensive, limiting their performance, scalability, and deployment feasibility, respectively. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ioannis Panitsas , Iason Ofeidis , Leandros Tassiulas

In recent years, data are typically distributed in multiple organizations while the data security is becoming increasingly important. Federated Learning (FL), which enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a model without…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Ji Liu , Xuehai Zhou , Lei Mo , Shilei Ji , Yuan Liao , Zheng Li , Qin Gu , Dejing Dou

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 has gained popularity as a means of training models distributed across the wireless edge. The paper introduces delay-aware hierarchical federated learning (DFL) to improve the efficiency of distributed machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Frank Po-Chen Lin , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Nicolò Michelusi , Christopher Brinton

In decentralized federated learning (DFL), substantial traffic from frequent inter-node communication and non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data challenges high-accuracy model acquisition. We propose Tram-FL, a novel DFL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kota Maejima , Takayuki Nishio , Asato Yamazaki , Yuko Hara-Azumi

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries alter model behavior on target classification labels by embedding triggers into data samples. While these attacks have received considerable attention in…

Federated Learning (FL) trains a shared model using data and computation power on distributed agents coordinated by a central server. Decentralized FL (DFL) utilizes local model exchange and aggregation between agents to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Xiaoyu Wang , Guojun Xiong , Houwei Cao , Jian Li , Yong Liu

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is an emerging paradigm to enable edge devices collaboratively training a learning model using a device-to-device (D2D) communication manner without the coordination of a parameter server (PS).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang , Geoffrey Ye Li

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is a promising machine learning paradigm for bringing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the network edge. Running DFL on top of edge networks, however, faces severe performance challenges…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Tingyang Sun , Tuan Nguyen , Ting He