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Federated learning (FL) enables distributed model training from local data collected by users. In distributed systems with constrained resources and potentially high dynamics, e.g., mobile edge networks, the efficiency of FL is an important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Shiqiang Wang , Jake Perazzone , Mingyue Ji , Kevin S. Chan

Federated learning (FL) has recently gained much attention due to its effectiveness in speeding up supervised learning tasks under communication and privacy constraints. However, whether similar speedups can be established for reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Nicolò Dal Fabbro , Aritra Mitra , George J. Pappas

Emerging real-time computer vision (CV) applications on wireless edge devices demand energy-efficient and privacy-preserving learning. Federated learning (FL) enables on-device training without raw data sharing, yet remains challenging in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiangwang Hou , Jingjing Wang , Fangming Guan , Jun Du , Chunxiao Jiang , Yong Ren

The development of machine learning algorithms has been gathering relevance to address the increasing modelling complexity of manufacturing decision-making problems. Reinforcement learning is a methodology with great potential due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Miguel Neves , Miguel Vieira , Pedro Neto

We study fine-grained gap-dependent regret bounds for model-free reinforcement learning in episodic tabular Markov Decision Processes. Existing model-free algorithms achieve minimax worst-case regret, but their gap-dependent bounds remain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-09 Haochen Zhang , Zhong Zheng , Lingzhou Xue

In Federated Learning (FL) client devices connected over the internet collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with a central server or with other clients. The seminal Federated Averaging (FedAvg)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min

In federated learning (FL), clients with limited resources can disrupt the training efficiency. A potential solution to this problem is to leverage a new learning procedure that does not rely on backpropagation (BP). We present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Seonghwan Park , Dahun Shin , Jinseok Chung , Namhoon Lee

Cross-client data heterogeneity in federated learning induces biases that impede unbiased consensus condensation and the complementary fusion of generalization- and personalization-oriented knowledge. While existing approaches mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ming Yang , Dongrun Li , Xin Wang , Xiaoyang Yu , Xiaoming Wu , Shibo He

This paper presents the first model-free, simulator-free reinforcement learning algorithm for Constrained Markov Decision Processes (CMDPs) with sublinear regret and zero constraint violation. The algorithm is named Triple-Q because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Honghao Wei , Xin Liu , Lei Ying

We propose ScalarFedLQR, a communication-efficient federated algorithm for model-free learning of a common policy in linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control of heterogeneous agents. The method builds on a decomposed projected gradient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Mohammadreza Rostami , Shahriar Talebi , Solmaz S. Kia

Statistical and systematic challenges in collaboratively training machine learning models across distributed networks of mobile devices have been the bottlenecks in the real-world application of federated learning. In this work, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Fei Chen , Mi Luo , Zhenhua Dong , Zhenguo Li , Xiuqiang He

Federated learning (FL) has enabled training machine learning models exploiting the data of multiple agents without compromising privacy. However, FL is known to be vulnerable to data heterogeneity, partial device participation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Marina Costantini , Giovanni Neglia , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed optimization without compromising data sovereignty. Yet, where local label distributions are mutually exclusive, standard weight aggregation fails due to conflicting optimization trajectories.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Andrea Moleri , Christian Internò , Ali Raza , Markus Olhofer , David Klindt , Fabio Stella , Barbara Hammer

Federated learning involves training statistical models in massive, heterogeneous networks. Naively minimizing an aggregate loss function in such a network may disproportionately advantage or disadvantage some of the devices. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Tian Li , Maziar Sanjabi , Ahmad Beirami , Virginia Smith

Federated learning (FL) can dramatically speed up reinforcement learning by distributing exploration and training across multiple agents. It can guarantee an optimal convergence rate that scales linearly in the number of agents, i.e., a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ankur Naskar , Gugan Thoppe , Utsav Negi , Vijay Gupta

Federated learning (FL), as an emerging edge artificial intelligence paradigm, enables many edge devices to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their private data. To enhance the training efficiency of FL, various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Wenzhi Fang , Ziyi Yu , Yuning Jiang , Yuanming Shi , Colin N. Jones , Yong Zhou

This paper presents a pioneering approach to solving the linear quadratic regulation (LQR) and linear quadratic tracking (LQT) problems with constrained inputs using a novel off-policy continuous-time Q-learning framework. The proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Duc Cuong Nguyen , Quang Huy Dao , Phuong Nam Dao

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a classical tool to solve network control or policy optimization problems in unknown environments. The original Q-learning suffers from performance and complexity challenges across very large networks. Herein,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Talha Bozkus , Urbashi Mitra

We study computationally and statistically efficient reinforcement learning under the linear $Q^{\pi}$ realizability assumption, where any policy's $Q$-function is linear in a given state-action feature representation. Prior methods in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yijing Ke , Zihan Zhang , Ruosong Wang

Federated Learning (FL) has shown great potential as a privacy-preserving solution to learning from decentralized data that are only accessible to end devices (i.e., clients). In many scenarios, however, a large proportion of the clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Carsten Maple