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When implementing hierarchical federated learning over wireless networks, scalability assurance and the ability to handle both interference and device data heterogeneity are crucial. This work introduces a learning method designed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Viktoria Fodor

We consider analog over-the-air federated learning, where devices harvest energy from in-band and out-band radio frequency signals, with the former also causing co-channel interference (CCI). To mitigate the aggregation error, we propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Ahmad Massud Tota Khel , Aissa Ikhlef , Zhiguo Ding , Hongjian Sun

With huge amounts of data explosively increasing in the mobile edge, over-the-air federated learning (OA-FL) emerges as a promising technique to reduce communication costs and privacy leak risks. However, when devices in a relatively large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Xiangyu Zhong , Xiaojun Yuan , Huiyuan Yang , Chenxi Zhong

In this study, a digital over-the-air computation (OAC) scheme for achieving continuous-valued gradient aggregation is proposed. It is shown that the average of a set of real-valued parameters can be calculated approximately by using the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Alphan Sahin , Rui Yang

Federated learning (FL) is a popular privacy-preserving distributed training scheme, where multiple devices collaborate to train machine learning models by uploading local model updates. To improve communication efficiency, over-the-air…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Yuchang Sun , Zehong lin , Yuyi Mao , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

In federated learning, communication cost can be significantly reduced by transmitting the information over the air through physical channels. In this paper, we propose a new class of adaptive federated stochastic gradient descent (SGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rui Zhang , Wenlong Mou

Federated edge learning (FEEL) is a popular framework for model training at an edge server using data distributed at edge devices (e.g., smart-phones and sensors) without compromising their privacy. In the FEEL framework, edge devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Guangxu Zhu , Yuqing Du , Deniz Gunduz , Kaibin Huang

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

We propose a federated version of adaptive gradient methods, particularly AdaGrad and Adam, within the framework of over-the-air model training. This approach capitalizes on the inherent superposition property of wireless channels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chenhao Wang , Zihan Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

We study a distributed machine learning problem carried out by an edge server and multiple agents in a wireless network. The objective is to minimize a global function that is a sum of the agents' local loss functions. And the optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Howard H. Yang , Zihan Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

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

This paper introduces a federated learning framework that enables over-the-air computation via digital communications, using a new joint source-channel coding scheme. Without relying on channel state information at devices, this scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Lav R. Varshney

Federated learning (FL) is a framework for distributed learning of centralized models. In FL, a set of edge devices train a model using their local data, while repeatedly exchanging their trained updates with a central server. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Tomer Sery , Nir Shlezinger , Kobi Cohen , Yonina C. Eldar

Over-the-Air Computation is a beyond-5G communication strategy that has recently been shown to be useful for the decentralized training of machine learning models due to its efficiency. In this paper, we propose an Over-the-Air federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Halil Yigit Oksuz , Fabio Molinari , Henning Sprekeler , Joerg Raisch

To address the limitations of traditional over-the-air federated learning (OA-FL) such as limited server coverage and low resource utilization, we propose an OA-FL in MIMO cloud radio access network (MIMO Cloud-RAN) framework, where edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Haoming Ma , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhi Ding

Non-coherent over-the-air (OTA) computation has garnered increasing attention for its advantages in facilitating information aggregation among distributed agents in resource-constrained networks without requiring precise channel estimation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yuhang Deng , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Machine learning and wireless communication technologies are jointly facilitating an intelligent edge, where federated edge learning (FEEL) is a promising training framework. As wireless devices involved in FEEL are resource limited in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yuxuan Sun , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Deniz Gündüz

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

Over-the-air federated edge learning (Air-FEEL) is a communication-efficient framework for distributed machine learning using training data distributed at edge devices. This framework enables all edge devices to transmit model updates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuding Liu , Dongzhu Liu , Guangxu Zhu , Qingjiang Shi , Caijun Zhong

We consider a many-to-one wireless architecture for federated learning at the network edge, where multiple edge devices collaboratively train a model using local data. The unreliable nature of wireless connectivity, together with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Junshan Zhang , Na Li , Mehmet Dedeoglu