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With more regulations tackling users' privacy-sensitive data protection in recent years, access to such data has become increasingly restricted and controversial. To exploit the wealth of data generated and located at distributed entities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Nader Bouacida , Jiahui Hou , Hui Zang , Xin Liu

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm involving multiple clients, e.g., mobile phone devices, with an incentive to collaborate in solving a machine learning problem coordinated by a central server. FL was proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Samuel Horváth

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data in edge environments, but is constrained by limited communication bandwidth and heterogeneous client data distributions. Prototype-based FL mitigates this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hongyue Wu , Hangyu Li , Guodong Fan , Haoran Zhu , Shizhan Chen , Zhiyong Feng

CLIP has revolutionized zero-shot learning by enabling task generalization without fine-tuning. While prompting techniques like CoOp and CoCoOp enhance CLIP's adaptability, their effectiveness in Federated Learning (FL) remains an open…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Alessio Masano , Matteo Pennisi , Federica Proietto Salanitri , Concetto Spampinato , Giovanni Bellitto

Current federated learning algorithms take tens of communication rounds transmitting unwieldy model weights under ideal circumstances and hundreds when data is poorly distributed. Inspired by recent work on dataset distillation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Yanlin Zhou , George Pu , Xiyao Ma , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) need fine-tuning to improve their responsiveness to natural language instructions. Federated learning offers a way to fine-tune LLMs using the abundant data on end devices without compromising data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhen Qin , Daoyuan Chen , Bingchen Qian , Bolin Ding , Yaliang Li , Shuiguang Deng

Training with huge datasets and a large number of participating devices leads to bottlenecks in federated learning (FL). Furthermore, the challenges of heterogeneity between multiple FL clients affect the overall performance of the system.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

In Federated Learning (FL) paradigm, a parameter server (PS) concurrently communicates with distributed participating clients for model collection, update aggregation, and model distribution over multiple rounds, without touching private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Xiaoxin Su , Yipeng Zhou , Laizhong Cui , John C. S. Lui , Jiangchuan Liu

Internet of Things (IoT) services will use machine learning tools to efficiently analyze various types of data collected by IoT devices for inference, autonomy, and control purposes. However, due to resource constraints and privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Mingzhe Chen , H. Vincent Poor , Walid Saad , Shuguang Cui

We study federated unlearning, a novel problem to eliminate the impact of specific clients or data points on the global model learned via federated learning (FL). This problem is driven by the right to be forgotten and the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Youming Tao , Cheng-Long Wang , Miao Pan , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng , Di Wang

To handle the data explosion in the era of internet of things (IoT), it is of interest to investigate the decentralized network, with the aim at relaxing the burden to central server along with keeping data privacy. In this work, we develop…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Yue Xiao , Yu Ye , Shaocheng Huang , Li Hao , Zheng Ma , Ming Xiao , Shahid Mumtaz

Recently, federated learning (FL) has sparked widespread attention as a promising decentralized machine learning approach which provides privacy and low delay. However, communication bottleneck still constitutes an issue, that needs to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Pavlos S. Bouzinis , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

Federated Learning (FL) refers to distributed protocols that avoid direct raw data exchange among the participating devices while training for a common learning task. This way, FL can potentially reduce the information on the local data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Dongzhu Liu , Osvaldo Simeone

In Federated Learning (FL), a framework to train machine learning models across distributed data, well-known algorithms like FedAvg tend to have slow convergence rates, resulting in high communication costs during training. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Zhiwei Tang , Tsung-Hui Chang

Federated fine-tuning offers a promising approach for tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge devices while preserving data privacy. However, fine-tuning these models on edge devices remains challenging due to high memory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed , Kilian Pfeiffer , Ramin Khalili , Heba Khdr , Jörg Henkel

Federated learning (FL) is a novel machine learning setting that enables on-device intelligence via decentralized training and federated optimization. Deep neural networks' rapid development facilitates the learning techniques for modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Shaoxiong Ji , Wenqi Jiang , Anwar Walid , Xue Li

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, existing FL algorithms predominantly focus on unconstrained optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Hongye Wang , Zhaoye Pan , Chang He , Jiaxiang Li , Bo Jiang

In 6G mobile communication systems, various AI-based network functions and applications have been standardized. Federated learning (FL) is adopted as the core learning architecture for 6G systems to avoid privacy leakage from mobile user…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Seyoung Ahn , Soohyeong Kim , Yongseok Kwon , Joohan Park , Jiseung Youn , Sunghyun Cho

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-protected machine learning paradigm that allows model to be trained directly at the edge without uploading data. One of the biggest challenges faced by FL in practical applications is the heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zirui Zhu , Ziyi Ye

Although Federated Learning has been widely studied in recent years, there are still high overhead expenses in each communication round for large-scale models such as Vision Transformer. To lower the communication complexity, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junkang Liu , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hongying Liu , Yuangang Li , YunXiang Gong