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Vertical federated learning (VFL), where data features are stored in multiple parties distributively, is an important area in machine learning. However, the communication complexity for VFL is typically very high. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Lingxiao Huang , Zhize Li , Jialin Sun , Haoyu Zhao

With the rapid growth in mobile computing, massive amounts of data and computing resources are now located at the edge. To this end, Federated learning (FL) is becoming a widely adopted distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm, which aims…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Li Chou , Zichang Liu , Zhuang Wang , Anshumali Shrivastava

Federated learning (FL) is a promising privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm over distributed located data. In FL, the data is kept locally by each user. This protects the user privacy, but also makes the server difficult to verify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Junyi Li , Jian Pei , Heng Huang

Communication efficiency is a central challenge in distributed machine learning training, and message compression is a widely used solution. However, standard Error Feedback (EF) methods (Seide et al., 2014), though effective for smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Yuan Gao , Anton Rodomanov , Jeremy Rack , Sebastian Stich

Federated learning (FL) is a promising paradigm that enables collaboratively learning a shared model across massive clients while keeping the training data locally. However, for many existing FL systems, clients need to frequently exchange…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Qiong Wu , Xu Chen , Tao Ouyang , Zhi Zhou , Xiaoxi Zhang , Shusen Yang , Junshan Zhang

The exponential growth in model sizes has significantly increased the communication burden in Federated Learning (FL). Existing methods to alleviate this burden by transmitting compressed gradients often face high compression errors, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yuhao Zhou , Yuxin Tian , Mingjia Shi , Yuanxi Li , Yanan Sun , Qing Ye , Jiancheng Lv

Federated learning can train models without directly providing local data to the server. However, the frequent updating of the local model brings the problem of large communication overhead. Recently, scholars have achieved the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ying Zhuansun , Dandan Li , Xiaohong Huang , Caijun Sun

With the promise of federated learning (FL) to allow for geographically-distributed and highly personalized services, the efficient exchange of model updates between clients and servers becomes crucial. FL, though decentralized, often faces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Grant Wilkins , Sheng Di , Jon C. Calhoun , Zilinghan Li , Kibaek Kim , Robert Underwood , Richard Mortier , Franck Cappello

Efficiently running federated learning (FL) on resource-constrained devices is challenging since they are required to train computationally intensive deep neural networks (DNN) independently. DNN partitioning-based FL (DPFL) has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Di Wu , Rehmat Ullah , Philip Rodgers , Peter Kilpatrick , Ivor Spence , Blesson Varghese

Federated learning aims to tackle the ``isolated data island" problem, where it trains a collective model from physically isolated clients while safeguarding the privacy of users' data. However, supervised federated learning necessitates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Hao Yan , Yuhong Guo

Federated learning (FL) is a promising paradigm to enable privacy-preserving deep learning from distributed data. Most previous works are based on federated average (FedAvg), which, however, faces several critical issues, including a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a shared global model without exposing clients' private data. In practical FL systems, clients (e.g., edge servers, smartphones, and wearables) typically have disparate system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Leming Shen , Qiang Yang , Kaiyan Cui , Yuanqing Zheng , Xiao-Yong Wei , Jianwei Liu , Jinsong Han

Federated Learning (FL), introduced in 2016, was designed to enhance data privacy in collaborative model training environments. Among the FL paradigm, horizontal FL, where clients share the same set of features but different data samples,…

Modern big-data systems generate massive, heterogeneous, and geographically dispersed streams that are large-scale and privacy-sensitive, making centralization challenging. While federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-enhancing training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Obaidullah Zaland , Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan , Monowar Bhuyan

In this paper, we focus on the important yet understudied problem of Continual Federated Learning (CFL), where a server communicates with a set of clients to incrementally learn new concepts over time without sharing or storing any data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shaunak Halbe , James Seale Smith , Junjiao Tian , Zsolt Kira

The longstanding goals of federated learning (FL) require rigorous privacy guarantees and low communication overhead while holding a relatively high model accuracy. However, simultaneously achieving all the goals is extremely challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 He Yang

Many application scenarios call for training a machine learning model among multiple participants. Federated learning (FL) was proposed to enable joint training of a deep learning model using the local data in each party without revealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Kai-Fung Chu , Lintao Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed learning paradigm with an added advantage of data privacy. With the growing interest in having collaboration among data owners, FL has gained significant attention of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Afsana Khan , Marijn ten Thij , Anna Wilbik

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), which has a broad range of real-world applications, has received much attention in both academia and industry. Enterprises aspire to exploit more valuable features of the same users from diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Wenguo Li , Xinling Guo , Xu Jiao , Tiancheng Huang , Xiaoran Yan , Yao Yang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) attracts increasing attention because it empowers multiple parties to jointly train a privacy-preserving model over vertically partitioned data. Recent research has shown that applying zeroth-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Ganyu Wang , Qingsong Zhang , Li Xiang , Boyu Wang , Bin Gu , Charles Ling