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The data heterogeneity across devices and the limited communication resources, e.g., bandwidth and energy, are two of the main bottlenecks for wireless federated learning (FL). To tackle these challenges, we first devise a novel FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhixiong Chen , Wenqiang Yi , Arumugam Nallanathan , Geoffrey Ye Li

Online federated learning (FL) enables geographically distributed devices to learn a global shared model from locally available streaming data. Most online FL literature considers a best-case scenario regarding the participating clients and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Francois Gauthier , Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Stefan Werner , Yih-Fang Huang , Anthony Kuh

Gradient-based distributed learning in Parameter Server (PS) computing architectures is subject to random delays due to straggling worker nodes, as well as to possible communication bottlenecks between PS and workers. Solutions have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone

This work poses a distributed multi-resource allocation scheme for minimizing the weighted sum of latency and energy consumption in the on-device distributed federated learning (FL) system. Each mobile device in the system engages the model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Yulan Gao , Ziqiang Ye , Han Yu , Zehui Xiong , Yue Xiao , Dusit Niyato

Federated learning (FL) is a new machine learning framework which trains a joint model across a large amount of decentralized computing devices. Existing methods, e.g., Federated Averaging (FedAvg), are able to provide an optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Xingyu Li , Zhe Qu , Bo Tang , Zhuo Lu

In this paper, a secure and communication-efficient clustered federated learning (CFL) design is proposed. In our model, several base stations (BSs) with heterogeneous task-handling capabilities and multiple users with non-independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Dongyu Wei , Xiaoren Xu , Shiwen Mao , Mingzhe Chen

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed model training on edge devices while preserving data privacy. However, clients tend to have non-Independent and Identically Distributed (non-IID) data, which often leads to client-drift, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Fotios Zantalis , Evangelos Zervas , Grigorios Koulouras

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed model training, yet in heterogeneous deployments, Bandwidth-Constrained Clients (BCCs) often contribute inefficiently due to limited uplink bandwidth. In model-heterogeneous FL with fixed small…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chengjie Ma , Seungeun Oh , Jihong Park , Seong-Lyun Kim

Communication overhead is the key challenge for distributed training. Gradient compression is a widely used approach to reduce communication traffic. When combining with parallel communication mechanism method like pipeline, gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Enda Yu , Dezun Dong , Yemao Xu , Shuo Ouyang , Xiangke Liao

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising technique for the collaborative training of deep neural networks across multiple devices while preserving data privacy. Despite its potential benefits, FL is hindered by excessive communication costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Vasileios Tsouvalas , Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi , Nirvana Meratnia

In this paper, a new learning algorithm for Federated Learning (FL) is introduced. The proposed scheme is based on a weighted gradient aggregation using two-step optimization to offer a flexible training pipeline. Herein, two different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Kenichi Kumatani , Robert Gmyr , Yashesh Gaur , Sefik Emre Eskimez

This paper presents a novel gradient compression method for federated learning (FL) in wireless systems. The proposed method centers on a low-rank matrix factorization strategy for local gradient compression that is based on one iteration…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mingzhao Guo , Dongzhu Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Dingzhu Wen

To leverage the vast amounts of onboard data while ensuring privacy and security, federated learning (FL) is emerging as a promising technology for supporting a wide range of vehicular applications. Although FL has great potential to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xianke Qiang , Zheng Chang , Geyong Min

Regional energy caps limit the growth of any single data center used for large-scale model training. This single-center training paradigm works when model size remains manageable, but exponential growth in the model size and computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Rongwei Lu , Jingyan Jiang , Chunyang Li , Xingguang Wei , Zhi Wang

Federated learning has attracted increasing attention with the emergence of distributed data. While extensive federated learning algorithms have been proposed for the non-convex distributed problem, federated learning in practice still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Xidong Wu , Feihu Huang , Zhengmian Hu , Heng Huang

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed machine learning approach that enables collaborative training of a global model using multiple edge devices. The data distributed among the edge devices is highly heterogeneous. Thus, FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ji Liu , Beichen Ma , Qiaolin Yu , Ruoming Jin , Jingbo Zhou , Yang Zhou , Huaiyu Dai , Haixun Wang , Dejing Dou , Patrick Valduriez

Distributed training enables large-scale deep learning, but suffers from high communication overhead, especially as models and datasets grow. Gradient compression, particularly quantization, is a promising approach to mitigate this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jihao Xin , Marco Canini , Peter Richtárik , Samuel Horváth

In Federated Learning (FL) client devices connected over the internet collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with a central server or with other clients. The seminal Federated Averaging (FedAvg)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min

Federated Learning (FL) enables mobile edge devices, functioning as clients, to collaboratively train a decentralized model while ensuring local data privacy. However, the efficiency of FL in wireless networks is limited not only by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yanbing Yang , Huiling Zhu , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Changrun Chen , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper investigates the role of dimensionality reduction in efficient communication and differential privacy (DP) of the local datasets at the remote users for over-the-air computation (AirComp)-based federated learning (FL) model. More…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Amir Sonee , Stefano Rini , Yu-Chih Huang