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Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a new paradigm to train machine learning models in distributed systems. Rather than sharing, and disclosing, the training dataset with the server, the model parameters (e.g. neural networks weights and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Stefano Savazzi , Monica Nicoli , Vittorio Rampa

For distributed learning among collaborative users, this paper develops and analyzes a communication-efficient scheme for federated learning (FL) over the air, which incorporates 1-bit compressive sensing (CS) into analog aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Xin Fan , Yue Wang , Yan Huo , Zhi Tian

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) eliminates the need for a central aggregator, but it can expose communication patterns that reveal participant identities. This work presents UnlinkableDFL, a DFL framework that combines a peer-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Chao Feng , Thomas Grubl , Jan von der Assen , Sandrin Raphael Hunkeler , Linn Anna Spitz , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an appealing machine learning approach to deal with massive raw data generated at multiple mobile devices, {which needs to aggregate the training model parameter of every mobile device at one base…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Shiyuan Zuo , Han Hu , Hai Jiang , Ning Zhang

Distributed optimization concerns the optimization of a common function in a distributed network, which finds a wide range of applications ranging from machine learning to vehicle platooning. Its key operation is to aggregate all local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zhenyi Lin , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

In this paper, we consider federated learning (FL) over a noisy fading multiple access channel (MAC), where an edge server aggregates the local models transmitted by multiple end devices through over-the-air computation (AirComp). To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Shuhao Xia , Jingyang Zhu , Yuhan Yang , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen

The provision of communication services via portable and mobile devices, such as aerial base stations, is a crucial concept to be realized in 5G/6G networks. Conventionally, IoT/edge devices need to transmit the data directly to the base…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Sunder Ali Khowaja , Kapal Dev , Parus Khuwaja , Paolo Bellavista

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

In this paper, we propose a hybrid learning framework that combines federated and split learning, termed semi-federated learning (SemiFL), in which over-the-air computation is utilized for gradient aggregation. A key idea is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Jingheng Zheng , Hui Tian , Wanli Ni , Yang Tian , Ping Zhang

We consider the design of mixing matrices to minimize the operation cost for decentralized federated learning (DFL) in wireless networks, with focus on minimizing the maximum per-node energy consumption. As a critical hyperparameter for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xusheng Zhang , Tuan Nguyen , Ting He

The growing number of wireless edge devices has magnified challenges concerning energy, bandwidth, latency, and data heterogeneity. These challenges have become bottlenecks for distributed learning. To address these issues, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Mohamed Badi , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Anis Elgabli , Mehdi Bennis

In a multi-agent system, agents can cooperatively learn a model from data by exchanging their estimated model parameters, without the need to exchange the locally available data used by the agents. This strategy, often called federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Halil Yigit Oksuz , Fabio Molinari , Henning Sprekeler , Jörg Raisch

To leverage massive distributed data and computation resources, machine learning in the network edge is considered to be a promising technique especially for large-scale model training. Federated learning (FL), as a paradigm of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Hao Chen , Shaocheng Huang , Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , H. Vincent Poor

Wireless devices are expected to provide a wide range of AI services in 6G networks. The increasing computing capabilities of wireless devices and the surge of wireless data motivate the use of privacy-preserving federated learning (FL). In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Chen Chen , Emil Björnson , Carlo Fischione

With the rapid growth in mobile computing, massive amounts of data and computing resources are now located at the edge. To this end, Federated learning (FL) is becoming a widely adopted distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm, which aims…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Li Chou , Zichang Liu , Zhuang Wang , Anshumali Shrivastava

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

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) is a serverless collaborative machine learning paradigm where devices collaborate directly with neighbouring devices to exchange model information for learning a generalized model. However, variations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Adnan Ahmad , Chiara Boldrini , Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

Decentralized stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a driving engine for decentralized federated learning (DFL). The performance of decentralized SGD is jointly influenced by inter-node communications and local updates. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Wei Liu , Li Chen , Wenyi Zhang

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) captures FL settings where both (i) model updates and (ii) model aggregations are exclusively carried out by the clients without a central server. Existing DFL works have mostly focused on settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shahryar Zehtabi , Dong-Jun Han , Rohit Parasnis , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

In this paper, we study a federated learning system at the wireless edge that uses over-the-air computation (AirComp). In such a system, users transmit their messages over a multi-access channel concurrently to achieve fast model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ruichen Jiang , Sheng Zhou