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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

Device to Device (D2D) communication takes advantage of the proximity between the communicating devices in order to achieve efficient resource utilization, improved throughput and energy efficiency, simultaneous serviceability and reduced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Tariq Islam , Cheolhyeon Kwon

Federated learning (FL) enables massive distributed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) devices to learn a global consensus model without any participants revealing their own data to the central server. However, the practicality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Zhikun Chen , Daofeng Li , Ming Zhao , Sihai Zhang , Jinkang Zhu

The ever-growing volume and decentralized nature of data, coupled with the need to harness it and extract knowledge, have led to the extensive use of distributed deep learning (DDL) techniques for training. These techniques rely on local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Michail Theologitis , Georgios Frangias , Georgios Anestis , Vasilis Samoladas , Antonios Deligiannakis

The basic idea of device-to-device (D2D) communication is that pairs of suitably selected wireless devices reuse the cellular spectrum to establish direct communication links, provided that the adverse effects of D2D communication on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Setareh Maghsudi , Slawomir Stanczak

We consider the design of mixing matrices to minimize the operation cost for decentralized federated learning (DFL) in wireless networks, with focus on minimizing the maximum per-node energy consumption. As a critical hyperparameter for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xusheng Zhang , Tuan Nguyen , Ting He

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a distributed machine learning (ML) technique to train models without sharing users' private data. In this paper, we propose a decentralized FL scheme that is called \underline{f}ederated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Mohanad Obeed , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Anas Chaaban

Current network training paradigms primarily focus on either centralized or decentralized data regimes. However, in practice, data availability often exhibits a hybrid nature, where both regimes coexist. This hybrid setting presents new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Junyi Zhu , Ruicong Yao , Taha Ceritli , Savas Ozkan , Matthew B. Blaschko , Eunchung Noh , Jeongwon Min , Cho Jung Min , Mete Ozay

Federated learning, where algorithms are trained across multiple decentralized devices without sharing local data, is increasingly popular in distributed machine learning practice. Typically, a graph structure $G$ exists behind local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-20 Huiyuan Wang , Xuyang Zhao , Wei Lin

A recent emphasis of distributed learning research has been on federated learning (FL), in which model training is conducted by the data-collecting devices. Existing research on FL has mostly focused on a star topology learning architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Shahryar Zehtabi , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

In recent advancements in machine learning, federated learning allows a network of distributed clients to collaboratively develop a global model without needing to share their local data. This technique aims to safeguard privacy, countering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Davide Domini , Gianluca Aguzzi , Nicolas Farabegoli , Mirko Viroli , Lukas Esterle

The stringent requirements for low-latency and privacy of the emerging high-stake applications with intelligent devices such as drones and smart vehicles make the cloud computing inapplicable in these scenarios. Instead, edge machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Kai Yang , Tao Jiang , Yuanming Shi , Zhi Ding

Cellular network performance can significantly benefit from direct device-to-device (D2D) communication, but interference from cochannel D2D communication limits the performance gain. In hybrid networks consisting of D2D and cellular links,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Qiaoyang Ye , Mazin Al-Shalash , Constantine Caramanis , Jeffrey G. Andrews

To address the communication burden issues associated with federated learning (FL), decentralized federated learning (DFL) discards the central server and establishes a decentralized communication network, where each client communicates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Qinglun Li , Li Shen , Guanghao Li , Quanjun Yin , Dacheng Tao

Decentralized federated learning (D-FL) enables privacy-preserving training without a central server, but multi-hop model exchanges and aggregation are often bottlenecked by communication resource constraints. To address this issue, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaoyu He , Weicai Li , Tiejun Lv , Xi Yu

Decentralized learning provides a scalable alternative to parameter-server-based training, yet its performance is often hindered by limited peer-to-peer communication. In this paper, we study how communication should be scheduled over time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tongtian Zhu , Tianyu Zhang , Mingze Wang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Can Wang

Decentralized federated learning, inherited from decentralized learning, enables the edge devices to collaborate on model training in a peer-to-peer manner without the assistance of a server. However, existing decentralized learning…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Hao Ye , Le Liang , Geoffrey Li

Decentralized federated learning (DFL), inherited from distributed optimization, is an emerging paradigm to leverage the explosively growing data from wireless devices in a fully distributed manner.DFL enables joint training of machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang

The performance of federated learning in neural networks is generally influenced by the heterogeneity of the data distribution. For a well-performing global model, taking a weighted average of the local models, as done by most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xinjia Li , Boyu Chen , Wenlian Lu

Cache-enabled Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is widely recognized as one of the key components of the emerging fifth generation (5G) cellular network architecture. However, conventional half-duplex (HD) transmission may not be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Mansour Naslcheraghi , Mehrnaz Afshang , Harpreet S. Dhillon