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Federated learning (FL) is a new paradigm that enables many clients to jointly train a machine learning (ML) model under the orchestration of a parameter server while keeping the local data not being exposed to any third party. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Yiwei Li , Shuai Wang , Tsung-Hui Chang , Chong-Yung Chi

Federated learning (FL) is a framework for machine learning across heterogeneous client devices in a privacy-preserving fashion. To date, most FL algorithms learn a "global" server model across multiple rounds. At each round, the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Zachary Charles , Kallista Bonawitz , Stanislav Chiknavaryan , Brendan McMahan , Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Although common in real-world applications, heterogeneous client label sets are rarely investigated in federated learning (FL). Furthermore, in the cases they are, clients are assumed to be willing to share their entire label sets with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Adam Breitholtz , Edvin Listo Zec , Fredrik D. Johansson

Recently, federated learning (FL), which replaces data sharing with model sharing, has emerged as an efficient and privacy-friendly machine learning (ML) paradigm. One of the main challenges in FL is the huge communication cost for model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Huiyuan Yang , Tian Ding , Xiaojun Yuan

In this paper, we consider a federated learning problem over wireless channel that takes into account the coding rate and packet transmission errors. Communication channels are modelled as packet erasure channels (PEC), where the erasure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Ayoob Salari , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Branka Vucetic , Sarah Johnson

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed agents to collaboratively learn a centralized model without sharing their raw data with each other. However, data locality does not provide sufficient privacy protection, and it is desirable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Rui Hu , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo

Algorithm-dependent generalization error bounds are central to statistical learning theory. A learning algorithm may use a large hypothesis space, but the limited number of iterations controls its model capacity and generalization error.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Wenlong Mou , Liwei Wang , Xiyu Zhai , Kai Zheng

With privacy as a motivation, Federated Learning (FL) is an increasingly used paradigm where learning takes place collectively on edge devices, each with a cache of user-generated training examples that remain resident on the local device.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Sean Augenstein , Andrew Hard , Kurt Partridge , Rajiv Mathews

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as the state-of-the-art approach for learning from decentralized data in privacy-constrained scenarios.However, system and statistical challenges hinder its real-world applicability, requiring efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Riccardo Zaccone , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Carlo Masone , Marco Ciccone

Communication overhead is a known bottleneck in federated learning (FL). To address this, lossy compression is commonly used on the information communicated between the server and clients during training. In horizontal FL, where each client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Pedro Valdeira , João Xavier , Cláudia Soares , Yuejie Chi

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging learning paradigm without violating users' privacy. However, large model size and frequent model aggregation cause serious communication bottleneck for FL. To reduce the communication volume,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Linping Qu , Shenghui Song , Chi-Ying Tsui

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning protocol that allows a set of participating agents to collaboratively train a model without sharing their data. This makes FL particularly suitable for settings where data privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Mustafa Safa Ozdayi , Murat Kantarcioglu , Rishabh Iyer

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm involving multiple clients, e.g., mobile phone devices, with an incentive to collaborate in solving a machine learning problem coordinated by a central server. FL was proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Samuel Horváth

The primary objective of learning methods is generalization. Classic uniform generalization bounds, which rely on VC-dimension or Rademacher complexity, fail to explain the significant attribute that over-parameterized models in deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Lijia Yu , Yibo Miao , Yifan Zhu , Xiao-Shan Gao , Lijun Zhang

The Web is naturally heterogeneous with user devices, geographic regions, browsing patterns, and contexts all leading to highly diverse, unique datasets. Federated Learning (FL) is an important paradigm for the Web because it enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Abdulrahman Alotaibi , Irene Tenison , Miriam Kim , Isaac Lee , Lalana Kagal

Supervised deep learning involves the training of neural networks with a large number $N$ of parameters. For large enough $N$, in the so-called over-parametrized regime, one can essentially fit the training data points. Sparsity-based…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-04-22 Mario Geiger , Arthur Jacot , Stefano Spigler , Franck Gabriel , Levent Sagun , Stéphane d'Ascoli , Giulio Biroli , Clément Hongler , Matthieu Wyart

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables learning models from decentralized local data. While FL offers appealing properties for clients' data privacy, it imposes high communication burdens for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Saeed Khalilian , Vasileios Tsouvalas , Tanir Ozcelebi , Nirvana Meratnia

Federated Learning (FL) is emerging as a popular, promising decentralized learning framework that enables collaborative training among clients, with no need to share private data between them or to a centralized server. However, considering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yue Niu , Saurav Prakash , Souvik Kundu , Sunwoo Lee , Salman Avestimehr

In this paper, the problem of delay minimization for federated learning (FL) over wireless communication networks is investigated. In the considered model, each user exploits limited local computational resources to train a local FL model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

Federated learning (FL) is a popular technique for distributing machine learning (ML) across a set of edge devices. In this paper, we study fully decentralized FL, where in addition to devices conducting training locally, they carry out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Shahryar Zehtabi , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton