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Synchronous updates may compromise the efficiency of cross-device federated learning once the number of active clients increases. The \textit{FedBuff} algorithm (Nguyen et al., 2022) alleviates this problem by allowing asynchronous updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Mohammad Taha Toghani , César A. Uribe

In Federated Learning (FL), with parameter aggregated by a central node, the communication overhead is a substantial concern. To circumvent this limitation and alleviate the single point of failure within the FL framework, recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhigang Yan , Dong Li

Federated learning is a distributed, privacy-aware learning scenario which trains a single model on data belonging to several clients. Each client trains a local model on its data and the local models are then aggregated by a central party.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Hesham Mostafa

To address the communication burden and privacy concerns associated with the centralized server in Federated Learning (FL), Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has emerged, which discards the server with a peer-to-peer (P2P)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Qinglun Li , Miao Zhang , Nan Yin , Quanjun Yin , Li Shen

Adversarial training has been widely studied in recent years due to its role in improving model robustness against adversarial attacks. This paper focuses on comparing different distributed adversarial training algorithms--including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ying Cao , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

Statistical heterogeneity in federated learning poses two major challenges: slow global training due to conflicting gradient signals, and the need of personalization for local distributions. In this work, we tackle both challenges by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Dennis Grinwald , Philipp Wiesner , Shinichi Nakajima

This paper proposes a novel federated algorithm that leverages momentum-based variance reduction with adaptive learning to address non-convex settings across heterogeneous data. We intend to minimize communication and computation overhead,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dipanwita Thakur , Antonella Guzzo , Giancarlo Fortino , Sajal K. Das

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a popular technique for distributing machine learning across wireless edge devices. We examine FL under two salient properties of contemporary networks: device-server communication delays and device…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-08 David Nickel , Frank Po-Chen Lin , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Nicolo Michelusi , Christopher G. Brinton

By letting local clients perform multiple local updates before communicating with a parameter server, modern federated learning algorithms such as FedAvg tackle the communication bottleneck problem in distributed learning and have found…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jie Liu , Yongqiang Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, yet its stability is fundamentally challenged by statistical heterogeneity in realistic deployments. Here, we show that client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ping Luo , Jiahuan Wang , Ziqing Wen , Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy, yet faces challenges in non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) settings due to client drift, which impairs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , Bruce J. West , YangQuan Chen

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collectively train a high-performance global model without sharing their private data. However, the key challenge in federated learning is that the clients have significant statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Liang Gao , Huazhu Fu , Li Li , Yingwen Chen , Ming Xu , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising paradigm for realizing edge intelligence, allowing collaborative learning among distributed edge devices by sharing models instead of raw data. However, the shared models are often assumed to be ideal,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Dongzi Jin , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li

Local SGD is a promising approach to overcome the communication overhead in distributed learning by reducing the synchronization frequency among worker nodes. Despite the recent theoretical advances of local SGD in empirical risk…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yuyang Deng , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Federated Learning (FL) revolutionizes collaborative machine learning among Internet of Things (IoT) devices by enabling them to train models collectively while preserving data privacy. FL algorithms fall into two primary categories:…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Liangkun Yu , Xiang Sun , Rana Albelaihi , Chaeeun Park , Sihua Shao

Federated Learning is a framework that jointly trains a model \textit{with} complete knowledge on a remotely placed centralized server, but \textit{without} the requirement of accessing the data stored in distributed machines. Some work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jia Qian , Lars Kai Hansen , Xenofon Fafoutis , Prayag Tiwari , Hari Mohan Pandey

This work considers the problem of decentralized online learning, where the goal is to track the optimum of the sum of time-varying functions, distributed across several nodes in a network. The local availability of the functions and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Shivangi Dubey Sharma , Ketan Rajawat

Federated learning enables training on a massive number of edge devices. To improve flexibility and scalability, we propose a new asynchronous federated optimization algorithm. We prove that the proposed approach has near-linear convergence…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Cong Xie , Sanmi Koyejo , Indranil Gupta

In this work, we study decentralized stochastic nonconvex Polyak--{\L}ojasiewicz minimax problems and propose a communication-efficient algorithm. Motivated by the efficiency of local SGD in federated learning, we investigate decentralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Haoyuan Cai , Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Ali H. Sayed

Federated learning (FL) encounters scalability challenges when implemented over fog networks. Semi-decentralized FL (SD-FL) proposes a solution that divides model cooperation into two stages: at the lower stage, device-to-device (D2D)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Evan Chen , Shiqiang Wang , Christopher G. Brinton