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Most federated learning (FL) approaches assume a fixed device set. However, real-world scenarios often involve devices dynamically joining or leaving the system, driven by, e.g., user mobility patterns or handovers across cell boundaries.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhan-Lun Chang , Dong-Jun Han , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Mung Chiang , Christopher G. Brinton

Over the past few years, significant advancements have been made in the field of machine learning (ML) to address resource management, interference management, autonomy, and decision-making in wireless networks. Traditional ML approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Xiaonan Liu , Yansha Deng , Arumugam Nallanathan , Mehdi Bennis

The recent advancement of foundation models (FMs) has increased the demand for fine-tuning these models on large-scale cross-domain datasets. To address this, federated fine-tuning has emerged, allowing FMs to be fine-tuned on distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ziyao Wang , Bowei Tian , Yexiao He , Zheyu Shen , Guoheng Sun , Yuhan Liu , Luyang Liu , Meng Liu , Ang Li

We propose a robust aggregation method for model parameters in federated learning (FL) under noisy communications. FL is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a central server aggregates local model parameters from multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tsutahiro Fukuhara , Junya Hara , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that preserves users' data privacy while leveraging the entire dataset of all participants. In FL, multiple models are trained independently on the clients and aggregated centrally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Amin Eslami Abyane , Derui Zhu , Roberto Souza , Lei Ma , Hadi Hemmati

Federated learning (FL) is becoming a popular paradigm for collaborative learning over distributed, private datasets owned by non-trusting entities. FL has seen successful deployment in production environments, and it has been adopted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Chen-Yu Ho , Pantelis Papageorgiou , Muhammad Bilal , Marco Canini

Federated learning (FL) is a powerful distributed machine learning framework where a server aggregates models trained by different clients without accessing their private data. Hierarchical FL, with a client-edge-cloud aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

The conventional model aggregation-based federated learning (FL) approach requires all local models to have the same architecture, which fails to support practical scenarios with heterogeneous local models. Moreover, frequent model exchange…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Zhixiong Chen , Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

In Federated Learning (FL), the distributed nature and heterogeneity of client data present both opportunities and challenges. While collaboration among clients can significantly enhance the learning process, not all collaborations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Nazarii Tupitsa , Samuel Horváth , Martin Takáč , Eduard Gorbunov

We study expected generalization bounds for the Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) setup using Wasserstein distance. We introduce a generalized framework in which data is sampled hierarchically, and we model it with a multi-layered tree…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Dario Filatrella , Ragnar Thobaben , Mikael Skoglund

In Federated Learning, we aim to train models across multiple computing units (users), while users can only communicate with a common central server, without exchanging their data samples. This mechanism exploits the computational power of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Alireza Fallah , Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar

Federated learning~(FL) has recently attracted increasing attention from academia and industry, with the ultimate goal of achieving collaborative training under privacy and communication constraints. Existing iterative model averaging based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yuanhao Xiong , Ruochen Wang , Minhao Cheng , Felix Yu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

With an increasing number of smart devices like internet of things (IoT) devices deployed in the field, offloadingtraining of neural networks (NNs) to a central server becomes more and more infeasible. Recent efforts toimprove users'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Kilian Pfeiffer , Martin Rapp , Ramin Khalili , Jörg Henkel

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to train a model while keeping their data private collaboratively. Previous studies have shown that data heterogeneity between clients leads to drifts across client updates. However, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Tailin Zhou , Jun Zhang , Danny H. K. Tsang

Federated learning (FL) has attracted growing interest for enabling privacy-preserving machine learning on data stored at multiple users while avoiding moving the data off-device. However, while data never leaves users' devices, privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy , Jiang Zhang , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Konstantinos Psounis , Salman Avestimehr

Personalized decision-making can be implemented in a Federated learning (FL) framework that can collaboratively train a decision model by extracting knowledge across intelligent clients, e.g. smartphones or enterprises. FL can mitigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Guodong Long , Ming Xie , Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Xianzhi Wang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) enables training ML models on edge clients without sharing data. However, the federated model's performance on local data varies, disincentivising the participation of clients who benefit little from FL. Fair FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Alex Iacob , Pedro P. B. Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane

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) rests on the notion of training a global model in a decentralized manner. Under this setting, mobile devices perform computations on their local data before uploading the required updates to improve the global model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Shashi Raj Pandey , Nguyen H. Tran , Mehdi Bennis , Yan Kyaw Tun , Aunas Manzoor , Choong Seon Hong

Federated learning enables resource-constrained edge compute devices, such as mobile phones and IoT devices, to learn a shared model for prediction, while keeping the training data local. This decentralized approach to train models provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yue Zhao , Meng Li , Liangzhen Lai , Naveen Suda , Damon Civin , Vikas Chandra