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To improve federated training of neural networks, we develop FedSparsify, a sparsification strategy based on progressive weight magnitude pruning. Our method has several benefits. First, since the size of the network becomes increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Dimitris Stripelis , Umang Gupta , Greg Ver Steeg , Jose Luis Ambite

Federated learning (FL) scenarios inherently generate a large communication overhead by frequently transmitting neural network updates between clients and server. To minimize the communication cost, introducing sparsity in conjunction with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Daniel Becking , Heiner Kirchhoffer , Gerhard Tech , Paul Haase , Karsten Müller , Heiko Schwarz , Wojciech Samek

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training across decentralized data, but faces key challenges of bidirectional communication overhead and client-side data heterogeneity. To address communication costs while embracing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiacheng Cheng , Xu Zhang , Guanghui Qiu , Yifang Zhang , Yinchuan Li , Kaiyuan Feng

Currently, progressively larger deep neural networks are trained on ever growing data corpora. As this trend is only going to increase in the future, distributed training schemes are becoming increasingly relevant. A major issue in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Felix Sattler , Simon Wiedemann , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

In distributed optimization for large-scale learning, a major performance limitation comes from the communications between the different entities. When computations are performed by workers on local data while a coordinator machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Dmitry Grishchenko , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick , Massih-Reza Amini

Overparameterized neural networks generalize well but are expensive to train. Ideally, one would like to reduce their computational cost while retaining their generalization benefits. Sparse model training is a simple and promising approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Tri Dao , Beidi Chen , Kaizhao Liang , Jiaming Yang , Zhao Song , Atri Rudra , Christopher Ré

This article proposes diffusion LMS strategies for distributed estimation over adaptive networks that are able to exploit sparsity in the underlying system model. The approach relies on convex regularization, common in compressive sensing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Ali H. Sayed

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared model without disclosing their local datasets. This is achieved by exchanging local model updates with the help of a parameter server (PS). However, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Emre Ozfatura , Kerem Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

Federated Learning allows multiple parties to jointly train a deep learning model on their combined data, without any of the participants having to reveal their local data to a centralized server. This form of privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Felix Sattler , Simon Wiedemann , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

In-network distributed estimation of sparse parameter vectors via diffusion LMS strategies has been studied and investigated in recent years. In all the existing works, some convex regularization approach has been used at each node of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Bijit Kumar Das , Mrityunjoy Chakraborty , Jerónimo Arenas-García

Federated learning is used for decentralized training of machine learning models on a large number (millions) of edge mobile devices. It is challenging because mobile devices often have limited communication bandwidth and local computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Hakim Sidahmed , Zheng Xu , Ankush Garg , Yuan Cao , Mingqing Chen

Federated learning is a machine learning approach that enables multiple devices (i.e., agents) to train a shared model cooperatively without exchanging raw data. This technique keeps data localized on user devices, ensuring privacy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Dimitrios Kritsiolis , Constantine Kotropoulos

Despite the importance of sparsity in many large-scale applications, there are few methods for distributed optimization of sparsity-inducing objectives. In this paper, we present a communication-efficient framework for L1-regularized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Virginia Smith , Simone Forte , Michael I. Jordan , Martin Jaggi

Federated learning has drawn widespread interest from researchers, yet the data heterogeneity across edge clients remains a key challenge, often degrading model performance. Existing methods enhance model compatibility with data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Qiantao Yang , Liquan Chen , Mingfu Xue , Songze Li

Current data compression methods, such as sparsification in Federated Averaging (FedAvg), effectively enhance the communication efficiency of Federated Learning (FL). However, these methods encounter challenges such as the straggler problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Zichen Tang , Junlin Huang , Rudan Yan , Yuxin Wang , Zhenheng Tang , Shaohuai Shi , Amelie Chi Zhou , Xiaowen Chu

This paper presents a novel radio frequency (RF) beam training algorithm for sparse multiple input multiple output (MIMO) channels using unitary RF beamforming codebooks at transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx). The algorithm leverages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Krishan K. Tiwari , Eckhard Grass , John S. Thompson , Rolf Kraemer

Federated Learning (FL) has attracted much interest due to the significant advantages it brings to training deep neural network (DNN) models. However, since communications and computation resources are limited, training DNN models in FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ran Greidi , Kobi Cohen

Compressed Neural Networks have the potential to enable deep learning across new applications and smaller computational environments. However, understanding the range of learning tasks in which such models can succeed is not well studied.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Matt Gorbett , Hossein Shirazi , Indrakshi Ray

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy by keeping raw data local. However, FL suffers from significant communication overhead due to the frequent exchange of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chaimaa Medjadji , Sadi Alawadi , Feras M. Awaysheh , Guilain Leduc , Sylvain Kubler , Yves Le Traon

We consider the problem of online stochastic optimization in a distributed setting with $M$ clients connected through a central server. We develop a distributed online learning algorithm that achieves order-optimal cumulative regret with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Sudeep Salgia , Qing Zhao , Tamir Gabay , Kobi Cohen