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Over-the-Air Federated Learning (AirFL) is an emerging paradigm that tightly integrates wireless signal processing and distributed machine learning to enable scalable AI at the network edge. By leveraging the superposition property of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Carlo Fischione , Kaibin Huang

Over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) exploits the inherent superposition property of wireless channels to integrate the communication and model aggregation. Though a naturally promising framework for wireless federated learning, it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jiayu Mao , Aylin Yener

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

Over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) is an emerging technique to reduce the computation and communication overload at the PS caused by the orthogonal transmissions of the model updates in conventional federated learning (FL). This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Saba Asaad , Hina Tabassum , Chongjun Ouyang , Ping Wang

In 6G wireless networks, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven applications demand the adoption of Federated Learning (FL) to enable efficient and privacy-preserving model training across distributed devices. Over-The-Air Federated Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zubair Shaban , Nazreen Shah , Ranjitha Prasad

The stringent requirements for low-latency and privacy of the emerging high-stake applications with intelligent devices such as drones and smart vehicles make the cloud computing inapplicable in these scenarios. Instead, edge machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Kai Yang , Tao Jiang , Yuanming Shi , Zhi Ding

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a promising technology to enable artificial intelligence (AI) at the network edge, where distributed mobile devices collaboratively train a shared AI model under the coordination of an edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Zehong Lin , Hang Liu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

In this letter, we introduce over-the-air computation into the communication design of federated multi-task learning (FMTL), and propose an over-the-air federated multi-task learning (OA-FMTL) framework, where multiple learning tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Haoming Ma , Xiaojun Yuan , Dian Fan , Zhi Ding , Xin Wang , Jun Fang

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

In this paper, we investigate the communication designs of over-the-air computation (AirComp) empowered federated learning (FL) systems considering uplink model aggregation and downlink model dissemination jointly. We first derive an upper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

To achieve communication-efficient federated multitask learning (FMTL), we propose an over-the-air FMTL (OAFMTL) framework, where multiple learning tasks deployed on edge devices share a non-orthogonal fading channel under the coordination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Haoming Ma , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhi Ding , Dian Fan , Jun Fang

This paper investigates an OFDM-based over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) system, where multiple mobile devices, e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), transmit local machine learning (ML) models to a central parameter server (PS) for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Xiaoyan Ma , Shahryar Zehtabi , Taejoon Kim , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated learning (FL) is a new paradigm to train AI models over distributed edge devices (i.e., workers) using their local data, while confronting various challenges including communication resource constraints, edge heterogeneity and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Qianpiao Ma , Junlong Zhou , Xiangpeng Hou , Jianchun Liu , Hongli Xu , Jianeng Miao , Qingmin Jia

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) systems demands scalable artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that can operate in computing-heterogeneous environments with diverse hardware capabilities and non-independent and identically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Wanli Ni , Hui Tian

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning paradigm that operates at the wireless edge. It enables clients to collaborate on model training while keeping their data private from adversaries and the central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Wayne Lemieux , Raphael Pinard , Mitra Hassani

In this paper, the performance optimization of federated learning (FL), when deployed over a realistic wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with digital modulation and over-the-air computation (AirComp) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Cong Shen , Changchuan Yin , Christopher G. Brinton

Employing wireless systems with dual sensing and communications functionalities is becoming critical in next generation of wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a robust design for over-the-air federated edge learning (OTA-FEEL) that…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Saba Asaad , Ping Wang , Hina Tabassum

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 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

This paper investigates an over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) system that employs fluid antennas (FAs) at an access point. The system enhances learning performance by leveraging the additional degrees of freedom provided by antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Saeid Pakravan , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani , Ming Zeng , Jean-Yves Chouinard , Leslie A. Rusch