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Federated learning (FL) has been recognized as a promising distributed learning paradigm to support intelligent applications at the wireless edge, where a global model is trained iteratively through the collaboration of the edge devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Wei Guo , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Lian Yang , Wei 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

Federated edge learning (FEEL) is a popular framework for model training at an edge server using data distributed at edge devices (e.g., smart-phones and sensors) without compromising their privacy. In the FEEL framework, edge devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Guangxu Zhu , Yuqing Du , Deniz Gunduz , Kaibin Huang

In this paper, we consider communication-efficient over-the-air federated learning (FL), where multiple edge devices with non-independent and identically distributed datasets perform multiple local iterations in each communication round and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Yinan Zou , Zixin Wang , Xu Chen , Haibo Zhou , Yong Zhou

Federated learning (FL) allows remote clients to train a global model collaboratively while protecting client privacy. Despite its privacy-preserving benefits, FL has significant drawbacks, including slow convergence, high communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , YangQuan Chen

Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale distributed training of machine learning models, while still allowing individual nodes to maintain data locally. However, executing FL at scale comes with inherent practical challenges: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hossein Zakerinia , Shayan Talaei , Giorgi Nadiradze , Dan Alistarh

Vertical federated learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning framework that enables devices to learn a global model from the feature-partition datasets without sharing local raw data. However, as the number of the local intermediate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Yuanming Shi , Shuhao Xia , Yong Zhou , Yijie Mao , Chunxiao Jiang , Meixia Tao

The paper proposes a data-driven approach to air-to-ground channel estimation in a millimeter-wave wireless network on an unmanned aerial vehicle. Unlike traditional centralized learning methods that are specific to certain geographical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Saira Bano , Pietro Cassarà , Nicola Tonellotto , Alberto Gotta

Devices located in remote regions often lack coverage from well-developed terrestrial communication infrastructure. This not only prevents them from experiencing high quality communication services but also hinders the delivery of machine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dong-Jun Han , Wenzhi Fang , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Mung Chiang , Christopher G. Brinton

We propose a federated version of adaptive gradient methods, particularly AdaGrad and Adam, within the framework of over-the-air model training. This approach capitalizes on the inherent superposition property of wireless channels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chenhao Wang , Zihan Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

The rapid proliferation and growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to the development of federated learning (FL). FL allows wireless devices (WDs) to cooperatively learn by sharing only local model parameters, without needing to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Zihao Hu , Jia Yan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Emerging technologies such as Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) make it possible to optimize some parameters of wireless channels. Conventional approaches require relating the channel and its programmable parameters via a simple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Tomer Shaked , Philipp del Hougne , George C. Alexandropoulos , Nir Shlezinger

Over-the-air (OTA) federated learning (FL) has been well recognized as a scalable paradigm that exploits the waveform superposition of the wireless multiple-access channel to aggregate model updates in a single use. Existing OTA-FL designs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Muhammad Faraz Ul Abrar , Nicolò Michelusi

We study federated edge learning (FEEL), where wireless edge devices, each with its own dataset, learn a global model collaboratively with the help of a wireless access point acting as the parameter server (PS). At each iteration, wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Tolga M. Duman , Deniz Gunduz , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

We study federated machine learning (ML) at the wireless edge, where power- and bandwidth-limited wireless devices with local datasets carry out distributed stochastic gradient descent (DSGD) with the help of a remote parameter server (PS).…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

Federated averaging (FedAvg) is a popular federated learning (FL) technique that updates the global model by averaging local models and then transmits the updated global model to devices for their local model update. One main limitation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Luong Trung Nguyen , Junhan Kim , Byonghyo Shim

Edge federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that trains a global parametric model from distributed datasets based on wireless communications. This paper proposes a unit-modulus over-the-air computation (UMAirComp) framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shuai Wang , Yuncong Hong , Rui Wang , Qi Hao , Yik-Chung Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Large-scale federated learning (FL) over wireless multiple access channels (MACs) has emerged as a crucial learning paradigm with a wide range of applications. However, its widespread adoption is hindered by several major challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Vineet Sunil Gattani , Junshan Zhang , Gautam Dasarathy

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) mobility enables flexible and customized federated learning (FL) at the network edge. However, the underlying uncertainties in the aerial-terrestrial wireless channel may lead to a biased FL model. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Ruslan Zhagypar , Nour Kouzayha , Hesham ElSawy , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without centralizing data. However, existing approaches such as Federated Averaging (FedAvg) often perform poorly with heterogeneous data distributions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Gyuejeong Lee , Daeyoung Choi