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Federated learning is a machine learning approach that enables multiple devices (i.e., agents) to train a shared model cooperatively without exchanging raw data. This technique keeps data localized on user devices, ensuring privacy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Dimitrios Kritsiolis , Constantine Kotropoulos

Federated learning is a machine learning setting where a set of edge devices collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a central server without sharing their local data. At each communication round of federated learning, edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Rui Hu , Yuanxiong Guo , Yanmin Gong

Federated Composite Optimization (FCO) has emerged as a promising framework for training models with structural constraints (e.g., sparsity) in distributed edge networks. However, simultaneously achieving communication efficiency and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Pu Qiu , Chen Ouyang , Yongyang Xiong , Keyou You , Wanquan Liu , Yang Shi

We study decentralized online convex optimization when agents communicate over a graph and messages may be compressed. Classical decentralized online methods typically require learning-rate choices that depend on the horizon, comparator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tomas Ortega , Hamid Jafarkhani

Federated learning is a new learning paradigm for extracting knowledge from distributed data. Due to its favorable properties in preserving privacy and saving communication costs, it has been extensively studied and widely applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Hongchang Gao , My T. Thai , Jie Wu

To reduce uploading bandwidth and address privacy concerns, deep learning at the network edge has been an emerging topic. Typically, edge devices collaboratively train a shared model using real-time generated data through the Parameter…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Shangming Cai , Dongsheng Wang , Haixia Wang , Yongqiang Lyu , Guangquan Xu , Xi Zheng , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

In decentralized learning, operator splitting methods using a primal-dual formulation (e.g., the Edge-Consensus Learning (ECL)) has been shown to be robust to heterogeneous data and has attracted significant attention in recent years.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yuki Takezawa , Kenta Niwa , Makoto Yamada

Federated learning, as a promising distributed learning paradigm, enables collaborative training of a global model across multiple network edge clients without the need for central data collecting. However, the heterogeneity of edge data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xingyan Chen , Tian Du , Mu Wang , Tiancheng Gu , Yu Zhao , Gang Kou , Changqiao Xu , Dapeng Oliver Wu

Deep learning has achieved great success in many applications. However, its deployment in practice has been hurdled by two issues: the privacy of data that has to be aggregated centrally for model training and high communication overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tien-Dung Cao , Tram Truong-Huu , Hien Tran , Khanh Tran

Decentralized optimization with time-varying networks is an emerging paradigm in machine learning. It saves remarkable communication overhead in large-scale deep training and is more robust in wireless scenarios especially when nodes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Xinmeng Huang , Kun Yuan

Federated edge learning is a promising technology to deploy intelligence at the edge of wireless networks in a privacy-preserving manner. Under such a setting, multiple clients collaboratively train a global generic model under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Zihan Chen , Zeshen Li , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we investigate a problem of minimizing total energy consumption for secure federated learning (FL) over wireless edge networks. To address the high computational cost and privacy challenges in conventional FL with neural…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yahao Ding , Yinchao Yang , Jiaxiang Wang , Zhaohui Yang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Distributed learning algorithms, such as the ones employed in Federated Learning (FL), require communication compression to reduce the cost of client uploads. The compression methods used in practice are often biased, making error feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Tomas Ortega , Chun-Yin Huang , Xiaoxiao Li , Hamid Jafarkhani

Regional energy caps limit the growth of any single data center used for large-scale model training. This single-center training paradigm works when model size remains manageable, but exponential growth in the model size and computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Rongwei Lu , Jingyan Jiang , Chunyang Li , Xingguang Wei , Zhi Wang

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging paradigm of collaborative machine learning that enables nodes in a network to train models collectively without sharing their raw data or relying on a central server. This paper introduces Zip-DL,…

We consider machine learning applications that train a model by leveraging data distributed over a trusted network, where communication constraints can create a performance bottleneck. A number of recent approaches propose to overcome this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Osama A. Hanna , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

As privacy protection gains increasing importance, more models are being trained on edge devices and subsequently merged into the central server through Federated Learning (FL). However, current research overlooks the impact of network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hangyu Li , Hongyue Wu , Guodong Fan , Zhen Zhang , Shizhan Chen , Zhiyong Feng

Communication overhead is one of the major performance bottlenecks in large-scale distributed computing systems, in particular for machine learning applications. Conventionally, compression techniques are used to reduce the load of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

In prototype-based federated learning, the exchange of model parameters between clients and the master server is replaced by transmission of prototypes or quantized versions of the data samples to the aggregation server. A fully…

This paper investigates the problem of minimizing total energy consumption for secure federated learning (FL) in wireless edge networks, a key paradigm for decentralized big data analytics. To tackle the high computational cost and privacy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yahao Ding , Yinchao Yang , Jiaxiang Wang , Zhonghao Liu , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei