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The federated learning (FL) framework trains a machine learning model using decentralized data stored at edge client devices by periodically aggregating locally trained models. Popular optimization algorithms of FL use vanilla (stochastic)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Jianyu Wang , Zheng Xu , Zachary Garrett , Zachary Charles , Luyang Liu , Gauri Joshi

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative approach for enabling distributed machine learning while preserving user privacy, yet it faces challenges like communication inefficiencies and reliance on centralized infrastructures,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Sai Puppala , Ismail Hossain , Md Jahangir Alam , Sajedul Talukder , Zahidur Talukder , Syed Bahauddin

Federated learning (FL), as a distributed collaborative machine learning (ML) framework under privacy-preserving constraints, has garnered increasing research attention in cross-organizational data collaboration scenarios. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Wenyou Guo , Ting Qu , Chunrong Pan , George Q. Huang

We consider decentralized machine learning over a network where the training data is distributed across $n$ agents, each of which can compute stochastic model updates on their local data. The agent's common goal is to find a model that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Anastasia Koloskova , Tao Lin , Sebastian U. Stich

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

Federated learning (FL) has become a hot research area in enabling the collaborative training of machine learning models among multiple clients that hold sensitive local data. Nevertheless, unconstrained federated optimization has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Ying Cui , Yangchen Li , Chencheng Ye

Decentralized methods to solve finite-sum minimization problems are important in many signal processing and machine learning tasks where the data is distributed over a network of nodes and raw data sharing is not permitted due to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Ran Xin , Soummya Kar , Usman A. Khan

Communication compression techniques are of growing interests for solving the decentralized optimization problem under limited communication, where the global objective is to minimize the average of local cost functions over a multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Yiwei Liao , Zhuorui Li , Kun Huang , Shi Pu

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

In federated distributed learning, the goal is to optimize a global training objective defined over distributed devices, where the data shard at each device is sampled from a possibly different distribution (a.k.a., heterogeneous or non…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Farzin Haddadpour , Mehrdad Mahdavi

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 (FL) is a decentralized collaborative Machine Learning framework for training models without collecting data in a centralized location. It has seen application across various disciplines, from helping medical diagnoses in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Arno Geimer , Karthick Panner Selvam , Beltran Fiz Pontiveros

The success of current Large-Language Models (LLMs) hinges on extensive training data that is collected and stored centrally, called Centralized Learning (CL). However, such a collection manner poses a privacy threat, and one potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Huiwen Wu , Xiaogang Xu , Deyi Zhang , Xiaohan Li , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu

Federated learning (FL) has received a surge of interest in recent years thanks to its benefits in data privacy protection, efficient communication, and parallel data processing. Also, with appropriate algorithmic designs, one could achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xin Zhang , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Haibo Yang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu

Stochastic distributed optimization methods that solve an optimization problem over a multi-agent network have played an important role in a variety of large-scale signal processing and machine leaning applications. Among the existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Songyang Ge , Tsung-Hui Chang

Communication compression techniques are of growing interests for solving the decentralized optimization problem under limited communication, where the global objective is to minimize the average of local cost functions over a multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Yiwei Liao , Zhuorui Li , Kun Huang , Shi Pu

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm in which a large number of clients coordinate with a central server to learn a model without sharing their own training data. One central server is not enough, due to…

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of models across distributed clients without sharing local data, addressing privacy concerns in decentralized systems. However, the gradient-sharing process exposes private data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingcong Xu , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen , Hai Jin

This paper presents a novel distributed formulation of the min-max optimization problem. Such a formulation enables enhanced flexibility among agents when optimizing their maximization variables. To address the problem, we propose two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Runze You , Kun Huang , Shi Pu

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