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Motivated by the increasing computational capacity of wireless user equipments (UEs), e.g., smart phones, tablets, or vehicles, as well as the increasing concerns about sharing private data, a new machine learning model has emerged, namely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Howard H. Yang , Zuozhu Liu , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

We study joint downlink-uplink beamforming design for wireless federated learning (FL) with a multi-antenna base station. Considering analog transmission over noisy channels and uplink over-the-air aggregation, we derive the global model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chong Zhang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Ali Afana , Yahia Ahmed

Federated learning (FL) is a promising learning paradigm that can tackle the increasingly prominent isolated data islands problem while keeping users' data locally with privacy and security guarantees. However, FL could result in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Peng Yang , Yuning Jiang , Ting Wang , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Colin N. Jones

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 new two-level learning method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Viktoria Fodor

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed learning paradigm for training deep neural networks (DNNs) at the wireless edge, but its performance can be severely hindered by unreliable wireless transmission and inherent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yanmeng Wang , Wenkai Ji , Jian Zhou , Fu Xiao , Tsung-Hui Chang

In order to meet the extremely heterogeneous requirements of the next generation wireless communication networks, research community is increasingly dependent on using machine learning solutions for real-time decision-making and radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Debaditya Shome , Omer Waqar , Wali Ullah Khan

Federated Learning (FL), while a breakthrough in decentralized machine learning, contends with significant challenges such as limited data availability and the variability of computational resources, which can stifle the performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jiaqi Wang , Xi Li

This paper studies the design of wireless federated learning (FL) for simultaneously training multiple machine learning models. We consider round robin device-model assignment and downlink beamforming for concurrent multiple model updates.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Chong Zhang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Ali Afana , Yahia Ahmed

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed method for edge-level machine learning, particularly for privacysensitive applications such as those in military and medical domains, where client data cannot be shared or transferred to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Lucas Grativol Ribeiro , Mathieu Leonardon , Guillaume Muller , Virginie Fresse , Matthieu Arzel

Federated learning (FL) is a promising privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm over distributed located data. In FL, the data is kept locally by each user. This protects the user privacy, but also makes the server difficult to verify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Junyi Li , Jian Pei , Heng Huang

Federated Learning (FL) enables participant devices to collaboratively train deep learning models without sharing their data with the server or other devices, effectively addressing data privacy and computational concerns. However, FL faces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Asadullah Tariq , Tariq Qayyum , Mohamed Adel Serhani , Farag Sallabi , Ikbal Taleb , Ezedin S. Barka

Federated learning (FL) enables a set of entities to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their sensitive data, thus, mitigating some privacy concerns. However, an increasing number of works in the literature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Aidmar Wainakh , Ephraim Zimmer , Sandeep Subedi , Jens Keim , Tim Grube , Shankar Karuppayah , Alejandro Sanchez Guinea , Max Mühlhäuser

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as an attractive decentralized solution for wireless networks to collaboratively train a shared model while keeping data localized. As a general approach, existing FL methods tend to assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Francesco Pase , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

Federated learning (FL) is a heavily promoted approach for training ML models on sensitive data, e.g., text typed by users on their smartphones. FL is expressly designed for training on data that are unbalanced and non-iid across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Tao Yu , Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov

These days with the rising computational capabilities of wireless user equipment such as smart phones, tablets, and vehicles, along with growing concerns about sharing private data, a novel machine learning model called federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Sajjad Emdadi Mahdimahalleh

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

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging learning framework that enables edge devices to collaboratively train ML models without sharing their local data. FL faces, however, a significant challenge due to the high amount of information that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Mohamad Assaad , Zeinab Nehme , Merouane Debbah

A significant bottleneck in federated learning (FL) is the network communication cost of sending model updates from client devices to the central server. We present a comprehensive empirical study of the statistics of model updates in FL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Nicole Mitchell , Johannes Ballé , Zachary Charles , Jakub Konečný

In this paper, we propose feature-based federated transfer learning as a novel approach to improve communication efficiency by reducing the uplink payload by multiple orders of magnitude compared to that of existing approaches in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Feng Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed ML model training on private user data at the global scale. Despite the potential of FL demonstrated in many domains, an in-depth view of its impact on model accuracy remains unclear. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Haotian Yang , Zhuoran Wang , Benson Chou , Sophie Xu , Hao Wang , Jingxian Wang , Qizhen Zhang