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Online federated learning (FL) enables geographically distributed devices to learn a global shared model from locally available streaming data. Most online FL literature considers a best-case scenario regarding the participating clients and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Francois Gauthier , Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Stefan Werner , Yih-Fang Huang , Anthony Kuh

Over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) offers an exciting new direction over classical FL by averaging model weights using the physics of analog signal propagation. Since each participant broadcasts its model weights concurrently in time…

This paper addresses the critical issue of spectrum scarcity and the need to support diverse services, including communication and learning tasks, by presenting a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless network framework…

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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

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

This paper integrates non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) into a unified framework using one simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS). The STAR-RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Wanli Ni , Yuanwei Liu , Yonina C. Eldar , Zhaohui Yang , Hui Tian

We study over-the-air (OTA) federated learning (FL) for energy harvesting devices with heterogeneous data distribution over wireless fading multiple access channel (MAC). To address the impact of low energy arrivals and data heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Furkan Bagci , Busra Tegin , Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman

We consider a broadband over-the-air computation empowered model aggregation approach for wireless federated learning (FL) systems and propose to leverage an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to combat wireless fading and noise. We first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Zhibo Pang , Lihui Wang , H. Vincent Poor

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

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an effective approach for training neural network models without requiring the sharing of participants' raw data, thereby addressing data privacy concerns. In this paper, we propose a reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Mengru Wu , Yu Gao , Weidang Lu , Huimei Han , Lei Sun , Wanli Ni

Over-the-air federated edge learning (Air-FEEL) has emerged as a promising solution to support edge artificial intelligence (AI) in future beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks. In Air-FEEL, distributed edge devices use their local data to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Xiaowen Cao , Zhonghao Lyu , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Lexi Xu , Shuguang Cui

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) expands vehicles from the ground to the near-ground space, envisioned as a revolution for transportation systems. Comprehensive scene perception is the foundation for autonomous aerial driving. However, UAM…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Kai Xiong , Rui Wang , Supeng Leng , Wenyang Che , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen

Over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) reduces uplink latency by aggregating client updates directly over the wireless multiple-access channel. Coherent analog aggregation realizes this idea by aligning the phases and amplitudes of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Hao Chen , Zavareh Bozorgasl

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) based federated learning (FL) is capable of achieving fast model aggregation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple access channels. However, the model aggregation performance is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhibin Wang , Jiahang Qiu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Liqun Fu , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Lataief

Federated learning (FL), as an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm, allows a mass of edge devices to collaboratively train a global model while preserving privacy. In this tutorial, we focus on FL via over-the-air computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jingyang Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

While federated learning (FL) is a widely popular distributed machine learning (ML) strategy that protects data privacy, time-varying wireless network parameters and heterogeneous configurations of the wireless devices pose significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Ferdous Pervej , Minseok Choi , Andreas F. Molisch

Distributed machine learning (ML) over wireless networks hinges on accurate channel state information (CSI) and efficient exchange of high-dimensional model updates. These demands are governed by channel coherence time and bandwidth, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mehdi Karbalayghareh , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

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

This paper investigates the model aggregation process in an over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) system, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deployed to assist the transmission from users to the base station (BS). With the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jingheng Zheng , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian