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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that protects privacy and tackles the problem of isolated data islands. At present, there are two main communication strategies of FL: synchronous FL and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yu Zhang , Moming Duan , Duo Liu , Li Li , Ao Ren , Xianzhang Chen , Yujuan Tan , Chengliang Wang

As AI models expand in size, it has become increasingly challenging to deploy federated learning (FL) on resource-constrained edge devices. To tackle this issue, split federated learning (SFL) has emerged as an FL framework with reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zheng Lin , Wei Wei , Zhe Chen , Chan-Tong Lam , Xianhao Chen , Yue Gao , Jun Luo

Collaborative learning across heterogeneous model architectures presents significant challenges in ensuring interoperability and preserving privacy. We propose a communication-efficient distributed learning framework that supports model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mounssif Krouka , Mehdi Bennis

The practical deployment of Federated Learning (FL) on resource-constrained devices is fundamentally limited by the high cost of training large models and the instability caused by heterogeneous (non-IID) client data. Conventional pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Christian Internò , Elena Raponi , Markus Olhofer , Ali Raza , Thomas Bäck , Niki van Stein , Yaochu Jin , Barbara Hammer

Federated learning is a widely used distributed deep learning framework that protects the privacy of each client by exchanging model parameters rather than raw data. However, federated learning suffers from high communication costs, as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Guang Yang , Ke Mu , Chunhe Song , Zhijia Yang , Tierui Gong

Federated Learning (FL) is an increasingly popular machine learning paradigm in which multiple nodes try to collaboratively learn under privacy, communication and multiple heterogeneity constraints. A persistent problem in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Elnur Gasanov , Ahmed Khaled , Samuel Horváth , Peter Richtárik

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm enabling collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. In today's landscape, where most data is proprietary, confidential, and distributed, FL has become a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zilinghan Li , Shilan He , Ze Yang , Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim , Ravi Madduri

Federated learning (FL) enables collaboratively training a model while keeping the training data decentralized and private. However, one significant impediment to training a model using FL, especially large models, is the resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Seyed Mahmoud Sajjadi Mohammadabadi , Syed Zawad , Feng Yan , Lei Yang

This work tackles the challenges of data heterogeneity and communication limitations in decentralized federated learning. We focus on creating a collaboration graph that guides each client in selecting suitable collaborators for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Salma Kharrat , Marco Canini , Samuel Horvath

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative learning framework that enables edge devices to collaboratively learn a global model while keeping raw data locally. Although FL avoids leaking direct information from local datasets, sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Zhenxiao Zhang , Yuanxiong Guo , Yuguang Fang , Yanmin Gong

Knowledge sharing and model personalization are two key components in the conceptual framework of personalized federated learning (PFL). Existing PFL methods focus on proposing new model personalization mechanisms while simply implementing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Fengwen Chen , Guodong Long , Zonghan Wu , Tianyi Zhou , Jing Jiang

Federated learning (FL) is an effective paradigm for enhancing the learning capability of edge devices while preserving data privacy. In geographically dispersed FL systems, such as sensor networks in remote areas, unmanned aerial vehicles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shiqian Guo , Jianqing Liu , Beatriz Lorenzo

Many of the machine learning (ML) tasks are focused on centralized learning (CL), which requires the transmission of local datasets from the clients to a parameter server (PS) leading to a huge communication overhead. Federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Ahmet M. Elbir , Sinem Coleri , Kumar Vijay Mishra

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) stands to gain significant advantages from collaboratively training capacity-heterogeneous models, enabling the utilization of private data and computing power from low-capacity devices. However, the focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Zheng Wang , Zheng Wang , Zhaopeng Peng , Zihui Wang , Cheng Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of mobile devices to collaboratively learn a model under the coordination of a central server without sharing their raw data. Despite its practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Bing Luo , Xiang Li , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

This paper investigates federated learning (FL) in a multi-hop communication setup, such as in constellations with inter-satellite links. In this setup, part of the FL clients are responsible for forwarding other client's results to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sourav Mukherjee , Nasrin Razmi , Armin Dekorsy , Petar Popovski , Bho Matthiesen

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning technique to train a global model without obtaining clients' private data. The main challenges in FL are statistical diversity among clients, limited computing capability among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xiaofeng Liu , Yinchuan Li , Qing Wang , Xu Zhang , Yunfeng Shao , Yanhui Geng

We propose LESS-VFL, a communication-efficient feature selection method for distributed systems with vertically partitioned data. We consider a system of a server and several parties with local datasets that share a sample ID space but have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Timothy Castiglia , Yi Zhou , Shiqiang Wang , Swanand Kadhe , Nathalie Baracaldo , Stacy Patterson

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed training on edge devices but faces significant challenges due to resource constraints in edge environments, impacting both communication and computational efficiency. Existing iterative pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haonan Wang , Zeli Liu , Kajimusugura Hoshino , Tuo Zhang , John Paul Walters , Stephen Crago