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With huge amounts of data explosively increasing in the mobile edge, over-the-air federated learning (OA-FL) emerges as a promising technique to reduce communication costs and privacy leak risks. However, when devices in a relatively large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Xiangyu Zhong , Xiaojun Yuan , Huiyuan Yang , Chenxi Zhong

In this paper, we develop an orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM)-based over-the-air (OTA) aggregation solution for wireless federated learning (FL). In particular, the local gradients in massive IoT devices are modulated by an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Huayan Guo , Yifan Zhu , Haoyu Ma , Vincent K. N. Lau , Kaibin Huang , Xiaofan Li , Huabin Nong , Mingyu Zhou

Federated learning (FL) leverages data distributed at the edge of the network to enable intelligent applications. The efficiency of FL can be improved by using over-the-air computation (AirComp) technology in the process of gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Fan Zhang , Jining Chen , Kunlun Wang , Wen Chen

Federated learning (FL) is an attractive paradigm for making use of rich distributed data while protecting data privacy. Nonetheless, nonideal communication links and limited transmission resources may hinder the implementation of fast and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Xin Fan , Yue Wang , Yan Huo , Zhi Tian

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a distributed machine learning (ML) technique that can protect local data privacy for participating clients and improve system efficiency. Instead of sharing raw data, FL exchanges intermediate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xiang Ma , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an appealing machine learning approach to deal with massive raw data generated at multiple mobile devices, {which needs to aggregate the training model parameter of every mobile device at one base…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Shiyuan Zuo , Han Hu , Hai Jiang , Ning Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is a popular privacy-preserving distributed training scheme, where multiple devices collaborate to train machine learning models by uploading local model updates. To improve communication efficiency, over-the-air…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Yuchang Sun , Zehong lin , Yuyi Mao , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Cell-free massive MIMO is emerging as a promising technology for future wireless communication systems, which is expected to offer uniform coverage and high spectral efficiency compared to classical cellular systems. We study in this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Houssem Sifaou , Geoffrey Ye Li

In this paper, we propose a hybrid learning framework that combines federated and split learning, termed semi-federated learning (SemiFL), in which over-the-air computation is utilized for gradient aggregation. A key idea is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Jingheng Zheng , Hui Tian , Wanli Ni , Yang Tian , Ping Zhang

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising framework for distributed learning, enabling collaborative model training without sharing private data. Existing wireless FL works primarily adopt two communication strategies: (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Muhammad Faraz Ul Abrar , Nicolò Michelusi

Federated learning (FL) is recognized as a key enabling technology to support distributed artificial intelligence (AI) services in future 6G. By supporting decentralized data training and collaborative model training among devices, FL…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Shaoming Huang , Pengfei Zhang , Yijie Mao , Lixiang Lian , Yuanming Shi

Over-the-Air Federated Learning (OTA-FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed learning mechanism, by aggregating updates in the electromagnetic channel rather than at the server. A critical research gap in existing OTA-FL research is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jinsheng Yuan , Zhuangkun Wei , Weisi Guo

Federated Learning (FL) is a widely embraced paradigm for distilling artificial intelligence from distributed mobile data. However, the deployment of FL in mobile networks can be compromised by exposure to interference from neighboring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Zhanwei Wang , Kaibin Huang , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper studies power-efficient uplink transmission design for federated learning (FL) that employs over-the-air analog aggregation and multi-antenna beamforming at the server. We jointly optimize device transmit weights and receive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Faeze Moradi Kalarde , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Yahia A. Eldemerdash Ahmed , Ho Ting Cheng

Federated learning (FL) is a framework for distributed learning of centralized models. In FL, a set of edge devices train a model using their local data, while repeatedly exchanging their trained updates with a central server. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Tomer Sery , Nir Shlezinger , Kobi Cohen , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper introduces a federated learning framework that enables over-the-air computation via digital communications, using a new joint source-channel coding scheme. Without relying on channel state information at devices, this scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Lav R. Varshney

We propose an uplink over-the-air aggregation (OAA) method for wireless federated learning (FL) that simultaneously trains multiple models. To maximize the multi-model training convergence rate, we derive an upper bound on the optimality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chong Zhang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Ali Afana , Yahia Ahmed

Federated learning (FL) can suffer from a communication bottleneck when deployed in mobile networks, limiting participating clients and deterring FL convergence. The impact of practical air interfaces with discrete modulations on FL has not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Shuyan Hu , Xin Yuan , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Ekram Hossain , H. Vincent Poor

Federated learning (FL) with over-the-air computation efficiently utilizes the communication resources, but it can still experience significant latency when each device transmits a large number of model parameters to the server. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chong Zhang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Ali Afana , Yahia Ahmed

Federated learning (FL) has been considered a promising privacy preserving distributed edge learning framework. Over-the-air computation (AirComp) leveraging analog transmission enables the aggregation of local updates directly over-the-air…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Lorenz Bielefeld , Paul Zheng , Oner Hanay , Yao Zhu , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink