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Federated Learning (FL) is a powerful technique for training a model on a server with data from several clients in a privacy-preserving manner. In FL, a server sends the model to every client, who then train the model locally and send it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Robert Hönig , Yiren Zhao , Robert Mullins

Distributed and federated learning are essential paradigms for training models across decentralized data sources while preserving privacy, yet communication overhead remains a major bottleneck. This dissertation explores strategies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Kai Yi

Training a machine learning model with federated edge learning (FEEL) is typically time-consuming due to the constrained computation power of edge devices and limited wireless resources in edge networks. In this paper, the training time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Peixi Liu , Jiamo Jiang , Guangxu Zhu , Lei Cheng , Wei Jiang , Wu Luo , Ying Du , Zhiqin Wang

Federated learning is used for decentralized training of machine learning models on a large number (millions) of edge mobile devices. It is challenging because mobile devices often have limited communication bandwidth and local computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Hakim Sidahmed , Zheng Xu , Ankush Garg , Yuan Cao , Mingqing Chen

The high communication cost of sending model updates from the clients to the server is a significant bottleneck for scalable federated learning (FL). Among existing approaches, state-of-the-art bitrate-accuracy tradeoffs have been achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Berivan Isik , Francesco Pase , Deniz Gunduz , Sanmi Koyejo , Tsachy Weissman , Michele Zorzi

Communication efficiency is a widely recognised research problem in Federated Learning (FL), with recent work focused on developing techniques for efficient compression, distribution and aggregation of model parameters between clients and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Chamath Palihawadana , Nirmalie Wiratunga , Anjana Wijekoon , Harsha Kalutarage

Federated Learning marks a turning point in the implementation of decentralized machine learning (especially deep learning) for wireless devices by protecting users' privacy and safeguarding raw data from third-party access. It assigns the…

Federated learning has allowed the training of statistical models over remote devices without the transfer of raw client data. In practice, training in heterogeneous and large networks introduce novel challenges in various aspects like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Dipankar Sarkar , Sumit Rai , Ankur Narang

One of the most challenging issues in federated learning is that the data is often not independent and identically distributed (nonIID). Clients are expected to contribute the same type of data and drawn from one global distribution.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Hung Nguyen , Peiyuan Wu , Morris Chang

Communication has been known to be one of the primary bottlenecks of federated learning (FL), and yet existing studies have not addressed the efficient communication design, particularly in wireless FL where both uplink and downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Sihui Zheng , Cong Shen , Xiang Chen

Communication constraints are one of the major challenges preventing the wide-spread adoption of Federated Learning systems. Recently, Federated Distillation (FD), a new algorithmic paradigm for Federated Learning with fundamentally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Felix Sattler , Arturo Marban , Roman Rischke , Wojciech Samek

Federated learning enables collaborative machine learning while preserving data privacy, but high communication and computation costs, exacerbated by statistical and device heterogeneity, limit its practicality in mobile edge computing.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Jinghong Tan , Zhichen Zhang , Kun Guo , Tsung-Hui Chang , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, a new communication-efficient federated learning (FL) framework is proposed, inspired by vector quantized compressed sensing. The basic strategy of the proposed framework is to compress the local model update at each device…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yongjeong Oh , Yo-Seb Jeon , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad

Existing federated learning paradigms usually extensively exchange distributed models at a central solver to achieve a more powerful model. However, this would incur severe communication burden between a server and multiple clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Ping Liu , Xin Yu , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Federated learning (FL) has attracted tremendous attentions in recent years due to its privacy preserving measures and great potentials in some distributed but privacy-sensitive applications like finance and health. However, high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yuzhu Mao , Zihao Zhao , Guangfeng Yan , Yang Liu , Tian Lan , Linqi Song , Wenbo Ding

With the prevalence of Large Learning Models (LLM), Split Federated Learning (SFL), which divides a learning model into server-side and client-side models, has emerged as an appealing technology to deal with the heavy computational burden…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yipeng Liang , Qimei Chen , Guangxu Zhu , Muhammad Kaleem Awan , Hao Jiang

Federated learning (FL) is a popular collaborative distributed machine learning paradigm across mobile devices. However, practical FL over resource constrained mobile devices confronts multiple challenges, e.g., the local on-device training…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Rui Chen , Liang Li , Kaiping Xue , Chi Zhang , Miao Pan , Yuguang Fang

Federated learning is widely used to learn intelligent models from decentralized data. In federated learning, clients need to communicate their local model updates in each iteration of model learning. However, model updates are large in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Communication costs within Federated learning hinder the system scalability for reaching more data from more clients. The proposed FL adopts a hub-and-spoke network topology. All clients communicate through the central server. Hence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Chun-Chih Kuo , Ted Tsei Kuo , Chia-Yu Lin

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training across decentralized data, but faces key challenges of bidirectional communication overhead and client-side data heterogeneity. To address communication costs while embracing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiacheng Cheng , Xu Zhang , Guanghui Qiu , Yifang Zhang , Yinchuan Li , Kaiyuan Feng