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Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm within edge computing (EC) systems, enabling numerous edge devices to collaboratively train artificial intelligence (AI) models while maintaining data privacy. To overcome the…

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Federated learning (FL) over wireless networks using analog transmission can efficiently utilize the communication resource but is susceptible to errors caused by noisy wireless links. In this paper, assuming a multi-antenna base station,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Chong Zhang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Ali Afana , Yahia Ahmed

It is often observed that the aggregated model in FL underperforms on local data until after several rounds of local training. This temporary performance drop can potentially slow down the convergence of the FL model. Prior work regards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Guogang Zhu , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu , Shaojie Tang , Xinghao Wu

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) 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

Recently, federated learning (FL), which replaces data sharing with model sharing, has emerged as an efficient and privacy-friendly machine learning (ML) paradigm. One of the main challenges in FL is the huge communication cost for model…

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Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that can coordinate heterogeneous edge devices to perform model training without sharing private data. While prior works have focused on analyzing FL convergence with respect to…

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Decision-Focused Learning (DFL) is a paradigm for tailoring a predictive model to a downstream optimization task that uses its predictions in order to perform better on that specific task. The main technical challenge associated with DFL is…

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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm that allows to accomplish model training without aggregating data at a central server. Most studies on FL consider a centralized framework, in which a single server is endowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Bin Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Xiaojun Yuan , Qing Ling

Personalized Federated Learning (pFL) holds immense promise for tailoring machine learning models to individual users while preserving data privacy. However, achieving optimal performance in pFL often requires a careful balancing act…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Azal Ahmad Khan , Ahmad Faraz Khan , Haider Ali , Ali Anwar

Decentralized machine learning (DML) supports collaborative training in large-scale networks with no central server. It is sensitive to the quality and reliability of inter-device communications that result in time-varying and stochastic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Shuyan Hu , Wei Ni , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang

Federated learning (FL) offers a privacy-preserving collaborative approach for training models in wireless networks, with channel estimation emerging as a promising application. Despite extensive studies on FL-empowered channel estimation,…

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We introduce a new and increasingly relevant setting for distributed optimization in machine learning, where the data defining the optimization are unevenly distributed over an extremely large number of nodes. The goal is to train a…

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Medical image segmentation under federated learning (FL) is a promising direction by allowing multiple clinical sites to collaboratively learn a global model without centralizing datasets. However, using a single model to adapt to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Jiacheng Wang , Yueming Jin , Liansheng Wang

Federated learning (FL) aims at optimizing a shared global model over multiple edge devices without transmitting (private) data to the central server. While it is theoretically well-known that FL yields an optimal model -- centrally trained…

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Federated learning has emerged as a popular technique for distributing machine learning (ML) model training across the wireless edge. In this paper, we propose two timescale hybrid federated learning (TT-HF), a semi-decentralized learning…

Personalized federated learning is proposed to handle the data heterogeneity problem amongst clients by learning dedicated tailored local models for each user. However, existing works are often built in a centralized way, leading to high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Rong Dai , Li Shen , Fengxiang He , Xinmei Tian , Dacheng Tao

In this paper, we consider federated learning (FL) over a noisy fading multiple access channel (MAC), where an edge server aggregates the local models transmitted by multiple end devices through over-the-air computation (AirComp). To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Shuhao Xia , Jingyang Zhu , Yuhan Yang , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen

Recent advances in distributed learning raise environmental concerns due to the large energy needed to train and move data to/from data centers. Novel paradigms, such as federated learning (FL), are suitable for decentralized model training…

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