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With its privacy preservation and communication efficiency, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising learning framework for beyond 5G wireless networks. It is anticipated that future wireless networks will jointly serve both FL…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Muhammad Farooq , Tung Thanh Vu , Hien Quoc Ngo , Le-Nam Tran

Does Federated Learning (FL) work when both uplink and downlink communications have errors? How much communication noise can FL handle and what is its impact to the learning performance? This work is devoted to answering these practically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Xizixiang Wei , Cong Shen

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning technique that aggregates model attributes from a large number of distributed devices. Several unique features such as energy saving and privacy preserving make FL a highly promising…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Haijian Sun , Xiang Ma , Rose Qingyang Hu

Cross-device Federated Learning is an increasingly popular machine learning setting to train a model by leveraging a large population of client devices with high privacy and security guarantees. However, communication efficiency remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Karthik Prasad , Sayan Ghosh , Graham Cormode , Ilya Mironov , Ashkan Yousefpour , Pierre Stock

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

Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising solution for training machine learning models across distributed data sources while preserving data privacy. However, FL faces critical challenges related to communication overhead and local…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ziyue Xu , Zhihong Zhang , Holger R. Roth , Chester Chen , Yan Cheng , Andrew Feng

Learning over massive data stored in different locations is essential in many real-world applications. However, sharing data is full of challenges due to the increasing demands of privacy and security with the growing use of smart mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jinjin Xu , Wenli Du , Ran Cheng , Wangli He , Yaochu Jin

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

Federated learning (FL) aims to minimize the communication complexity of training a model over heterogeneous data distributed across many clients. A common approach is local methods, where clients take multiple optimization steps over local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Charlie Hou , Kiran K. Thekumparampil , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables learning models from decentralized local data. While FL offers appealing properties for clients' data privacy, it imposes high communication burdens for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Saeed Khalilian , Vasileios Tsouvalas , Tanir Ozcelebi , Nirvana Meratnia

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

While federated learning (FL) systems often utilize quantization to battle communication and computational bottlenecks, they have heretofore been limited to deploying fixed-precision quantization schemes. Meanwhile, the concept of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Huancheng Chen , Haris Vikalo

We study joint downlink-uplink beamforming design for wireless federated learning (FL) with a multi-antenna base station. Considering analog transmission over noisy channels and uplink over-the-air aggregation, we derive the global model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chong Zhang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Ali Afana , Yahia Ahmed

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning approach that enables the creation of shared models for powerful applications while allowing data to remain on devices. This approach provides benefits such as improved data privacy, security,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Jieming Bian , Cong Shen , Jie Xu

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for training machine learning models using possibly private data available at edge devices. The distributed operation of FL gives rise to challenges that are not encountered in centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Natalie Lang , Elad Sofer , Tomer Shaked , Nir Shlezinger

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

Federated learning (FL) is a promising and powerful approach for training deep learning models without sharing the raw data of clients. During the training process of FL, the central server and distributed clients need to exchange a vast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zhefeng Qiao , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

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) has garnered increasing attention due to its unique characteristic of allowing heterogeneous clients to process their private data locally and interact with a central server, while being respectful of privacy. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Kai Yi , Georg Meinhardt , Laurent Condat , Peter Richtárik

Deploying federated learning (FL) over wireless networks with resource-constrained devices requires balancing between accuracy, energy efficiency, and precision. Prior art on FL often requires devices to train deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Minsu Kim , Walid Saad , Mohammad Mozaffari , Merouane Debbah