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Federated learning can enable remote workers to collaboratively train a shared machine learning model while allowing training data to be kept locally. In the use case of wireless mobile devices, the communication overhead is a critical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Kai Yue , Richeng Jin , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

We study the problem of distributed and rate-adaptive feature compression for linear regression. A set of distributed sensors collect disjoint features of regressor data. A fusion center is assumed to contain a pretrained linear regression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Aditya Deshmukh , Venugopal V. Veeravalli , Gunjan Verma

Federated Learning enables one to jointly train a machine learning model across distributed clients holding sensitive datasets. In real-world settings, this approach is hindered by expensive communication and privacy concerns. Both of these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-19 Constance Beguier , Mathieu Andreux , Eric W. Tramel

We propose basic and natural assumptions under which iterative optimization methods with compressed iterates can be analyzed. This problem is motivated by the practice of federated learning, where a large model stored in the cloud is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Sélim Chraibi , Ahmed Khaled , Dmitry Kovalev , Peter Richtárik , Adil Salim , Martin Takáč

We explore a scheme that enables the training of a deep neural network in a Federated Learning configuration over an additive white Gaussian noise channel. The goal is to create a low complexity, linear compression strategy, called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Michail Gkagkos , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades

The amount of data generated and gathered in scientific simulations and data collection applications is continuously growing, putting mounting pressure on storage and bandwidth concerns. A means of reducing such issues is data compression;…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Alyson Fox , Peter Lindstrom

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across multiple clients while optionally preserving data privacy. However, communication efficiency remains a critical bottleneck, particularly for large-scale models. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arnaud Descours , Léonard Deroose , Jan Ramon

With the promise of federated learning (FL) to allow for geographically-distributed and highly personalized services, the efficient exchange of model updates between clients and servers becomes crucial. FL, though decentralized, often faces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Grant Wilkins , Sheng Di , Jon C. Calhoun , Zilinghan Li , Kibaek Kim , Robert Underwood , Richard Mortier , Franck Cappello

Model compression is important in federated learning (FL) with large models to reduce communication cost. Prior works have been focusing on sparsification based compression that could desparately affect the global model accuracy. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Shengyuan Hu , Jack Goetz , Kshitiz Malik , Hongyuan Zhan , Zhe Liu , Yue Liu

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique designed to preserve data privacy and security, and it has gained significant importance due to its broad range of applications. This paper addresses the problem of optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Lasse Vuursteen

Privacy and communication constraints are two major bottlenecks in federated learning (FL) and analytics (FA). We study the optimal accuracy of mean and frequency estimation (canonical models for FL and FA respectively) under joint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-05 Wei-Ning Chen , Dan Song , Ayfer Ozgur , Peter Kairouz

Compressed communication, in the form of sparsification or quantization of stochastic gradients, is employed to reduce communication costs in distributed data-parallel training of deep neural networks. However, there exists a discrepancy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Aritra Dutta , El Houcine Bergou , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Chen-Yu Ho , Atal Narayan Sahu , Marco Canini , Panos Kalnis

Quick and accurate emergency handling in Disaster Decision Support Systems (DDSS) is often hampered by network latency and suboptimal application accuracy. While Federated Learning (FL) addresses some of these issues, it is constrained by…

Communication compression, a technique aiming to reduce the information volume to be transmitted over the air, has gained great interests in Federated Learning (FL) for the potential of alleviating its communication overhead. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Xinmeng Huang , Ping Li , Xiaoyun Li

Gradient compression is a recent and increasingly popular technique for reducing the communication cost in distributed training of large-scale machine learning models. In this work we focus on developing efficient distributed methods that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Xun Qian , Peter Richtárik , Tong Zhang

In the last few years, various communication compression techniques have emerged as an indispensable tool helping to alleviate the communication bottleneck in distributed learning. However, despite the fact biased compressors often show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Samuel Horváth , Peter Richtárik , Mher Safaryan

The task of preserving privacy while ensuring efficient communication is a fundamental challenge in federated learning. In this work, we tackle this challenge in the trusted aggregator model, and propose a solution that achieves both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Burak Hasircioglu , Deniz Gunduz

The communication bottleneck in federated learning (FL) has spurred extensive research into techniques to reduce the volume of data exchanged between client devices and the central parameter server. In this paper, we systematically classify…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Adrian Edin , Michel Kieffer , Mikael Johansson , Zheng Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique that enables a large amount of edge computing devices to collaboratively train a global learning model. Due to privacy concerns, the raw data on devices could not be available for centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Miao Yang , Akitanoshou Wong , Hongbin Zhu , Haifeng Wang , Hua Qian

Federated learning (FL) has been recognized as a promising distributed learning paradigm to support intelligent applications at the wireless edge, where a global model is trained iteratively through the collaboration of the edge devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Wei Guo , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Lian Yang , Wei Zhang