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Asynchronous federated learning mitigates the inefficiency of conventional synchronous aggregation by integrating updates as they arrive and adjusting their influence based on staleness. Due to asynchrony and data heterogeneity, learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Jiayun Zhang , Shuheng Li , Haiyu Huang , Xiaofan Yu , Rajesh K. Gupta , Jingbo Shang

In this work, we investigate the challenging problem of on-demand federated learning (FL) over heterogeneous edge devices with diverse resource constraints. We propose a cost-adjustable FL framework, named AnycostFL, that enables diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Peichun Li , Guoliang Cheng , Xumin Huang , Jiawen Kang , Rong Yu , Yuan Wu , Miao Pan

The enormous amount of data produced by mobile and IoT devices has motivated the development of federated learning (FL), a framework allowing such devices (or clients) to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Angelo Rodio , Francescomaria Faticanti , Othmane Marfoq , Giovanni Neglia , Emilio Leonardi

Federated Learning (FL) endeavors to harness decentralized data while preserving privacy, facing challenges of performance, scalability, and collaboration. Asynchronous Federated Learning (AFL) methods have emerged as promising alternatives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jeffrey Ma , Alan Tu , Yiling Chen , Vijay Janapa Reddi

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a compelling methodology for the management of distributed data, marked by significant advancements in recent years. In this paper, we propose an efficient FL approach that capitalizes on additional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Juncheng Jia , Ji Liu , Chao Huo , Yihui Shen , Yang Zhou , Huaiyu Dai , Dejing Dou

Federated Learning (FL) enables edge devices or clients to collaboratively train machine learning (ML) models without sharing their private data. Much of the existing work in FL focuses on efficiently learning a model for a single task. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Baris Askin , Pranay Sharma , Carlee Joe-Wong , Gauri Joshi

Federated Learning (FL) as a promising distributed machine learning paradigm has been widely adopted in Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) applications. However, the efficiency and inference capability of FL is seriously limited due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zeke Xia , Ming Hu , Dengke Yan , Xiaofei Xie , Tianlin Li , Anran Li , Junlong Zhou , Mingsong Chen

The paper studies a fundamental federated learning (FL) problem involving multiple clients with heterogeneous constrained resources. Compared with the numerous training parameters, the computing and communication resources of clients are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ruirui Zhang , Xingze Wu , Yifei Zou , Zhenzhen Xie , Peng Li , Xiuzhen Cheng , Dongxiao Yu

Asynchronous Federated Learning (AFL) has emerged as a significant research area in recent years. By not waiting for slower clients and executing the training process concurrently, it achieves faster training speed compared to traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Chaoyi Lu , Yiding Sun , Zhichuan Yang , Jinqian Chen , Dongfu Yin , Jihua Zhu

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning (ML) framework that combines on-device training and server-based aggregation to train a common ML model among distributed agents. In this work, we propose an asynchronous FL design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Chung-Hsuan Hu , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Federated learning (FL) algorithms usually sample a fraction of clients in each round (partial participation) when the number of participants is large and the server's communication bandwidth is limited. Recent works on the convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Bing Luo , Wenli Xiao , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Asynchronous federated learning aims to solve the straggler problem in heterogeneous environments, i.e., clients have small computational capacities that could cause aggregation delay. The principle of asynchronous federated learning is to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Xiang Ma , Qun Wang , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

Federated Learning (FL) is a newly emerged decentralized machine learning (ML) framework that combines on-device local training with server-based model synchronization to train a centralized ML model over distributed nodes. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Chung-Hsuan Hu , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Real-time machine learning has recently attracted significant interest due to its potential to support instantaneous learning, adaptation, and decision making in a wide range of application domains, including self-driving vehicles,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Yong Xiao , Xiaohan Zhang , Guangming Shi , Marwan Krunz , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang

Over the past few years, Federated Learning (FL) has become a popular distributed machine learning paradigm. FL involves a group of clients with decentralized data who collaborate to learn a common model under the coordination of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jieming Bian , Lei Wang , Kun Yang , Cong Shen , Jie Xu

Traditional Federated Learning (FL) faces significant challenges in terms of efficiency and accuracy, particularly in heterogeneous environments where clients employ diverse model architectures and have varying computational resources. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiacheng Wang , Hongtao Lv , Lei Liu

Scalability and privacy are two critical concerns for cross-device federated learning (FL) systems. In this work, we identify that synchronous FL - synchronized aggregation of client updates in FL - cannot scale efficiently beyond a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 John Nguyen , Kshitiz Malik , Hongyuan Zhan , Ashkan Yousefpour , Michael Rabbat , Mani Malek , Dzmitry Huba

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed training while preserving data privacy, but stragglers-slow or incapable clients-can significantly slow down the total training time and degrade performance. To mitigate the impact of stragglers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Honggu Kang , Seohyeon Cha , Jinwoo Shin , Jongmyeong Lee , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed training paradigm that aims to learn a common global model without exchanging or transferring the data that are stored locally at different clients. The Federated Averaging (FedAvg)-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xiaolu Wang , Zijian Li , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is a promising paradigm that enables collaboratively learning a shared model across massive clients while keeping the training data locally. However, for many existing FL systems, clients need to frequently exchange…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Qiong Wu , Xu Chen , Tao Ouyang , Zhi Zhou , Xiaoxi Zhang , Shusen Yang , Junshan Zhang