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Federated Learning (FL) offers a decentralized framework for training and fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) by leveraging computational resources across organizations while keeping sensitive data on local devices. It addresses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Md Jueal Mia , M. Hadi Amini

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as important components across various fields, yet their training requires substantial computation resources and abundant labeled data. It poses a challenge to robustly training LLMs for individual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jiaxing QI , Zhongzhi Luan , Shaohan Huang , Carol Fung , Hailong Yang , Depei Qian

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized, privacy-preserving model training but struggles to balance global generalization and local personalization due to non-identical data distributions across clients. Personalized Fine-Tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Minghui Chen , Hrad Ghoukasian , Ruinan Jin , Zehua Wang , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Xiaoxiao Li

Federated Learning enables the fine-tuning of foundation models (FMs) across distributed clients for specific tasks; however, its scalability is limited by the heterogeneity of client memory capacities. In this work, we propose Fed-pilot, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zikai Zhang , Rui Hu , Ping Liu , Jiahao Xu

Adapting Foundation Models (FMs) for downstream tasks through Federated Learning (FL) emerges a promising strategy for protecting data privacy and valuable FMs. Existing methods fine-tune FM by allocating sub-FM to clients in FL, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zhaopeng Peng , Xiaoliang Fan , Yufan Chen , Zheng Wang , Shirui Pan , Chenglu Wen , Ruisheng Zhang , Cheng Wang

Adapting large AI models (LAMs) to personalized edge data is challenging because wireless devices have limited memory, computation, and uplink capacity. Federated fine-tuning preserves data privacy but still requires each device to host the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xianke Qiang , Zheng Chang , Li Wang , Ying-Chang Liang

Addressing the challenges of deploying large language models in wireless communication networks, this paper combines low-rank adaptation technology (LoRA) with the splitfed learning framework to propose the federated split learning for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Kai Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) has gained popularity for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) across multiple nodes, each with its own private data. While LoRA has been widely adopted for parameter efficient federated fine-tuning, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Navyansh Mahla , Sunny Gupta , Amit Sethi

Adapting foundation models for medical image analysis requires finetuning them on a considerable amount of data because of extreme distribution shifts between natural (source) data used for pretraining and medical (target) data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Mothilal Asokan , Joseph Geo Benjamin , Mohammad Yaqub , Karthik Nandakumar

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) via federated learning, i.e., FedLLM, has been proposed to adapt LLMs for various downstream applications in a privacy-preserving way. To reduce the fine-tuning costs on resource-constrained devices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jun Liu , Yunming Liao , Hongli Xu , Yang Xu

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) in federated settings enables privacy-preserving adaptation but suffers from cross-client interference due to model aggregation. Existing federated LoRA fine-tuning methods, primarily based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jieming Bian , Lei Wang , Letian Zhang , Jie Xu

Federated Split Learning has been identified as an efficient approach to address the computational resource constraints of clients in classical federated learning, while guaranteeing data privacy for distributed model training across data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yimeng Shan , Zhaorui Zhang , Sheng Di , Yu Liu , Xiaoyi Lu , Benben Liu

Foundation models (FMs) show great promise for robust downstream performance across medical imaging tasks and modalities, including cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), following task-specific adaptation. However, adaptation using single-site…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Joan Perramon-Llussà , Amelia Jiménez-Sánchez , Grzegorz Skorupko , Fotis Avgoustidis , Carlos Martín-Isla , Karim Lekadir , Polyxeni Gkontra

In this paper, we propose an edge-assisted split federated learning framework to facilitate large language model (LLM) fine-tuning on heterogeneous mobile devices while alleviating memory pressures on both mobile devices and the edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xiaopei Chen , Liang Li , Fei Ji , Wen Wu

Foundation models (FMs) achieve strong performance across diverse tasks with task-specific fine-tuning, yet full parameter fine-tuning is often computationally prohibitive for large models. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jieming Bian , Lei Wang , Letian Zhang , Jie Xu

The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has been largely driven by vast public datasets. However, the next frontier for LLM development lies beyond public data. Much of the world's most valuable information is private, especially…

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has been pivotal in advancing AI, with pre-trained LLMs being adaptable to diverse downstream tasks through fine-tuning. Federated learning (FL) further enhances fine-tuning in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Ziyao Wang , Zheyu Shen , Yexiao He , Guoheng Sun , Hongyi Wang , Lingjuan Lyu , Ang Li

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) based on low-rank adaptation (LoRA) enables mobile devices with multi-task datasets to collaboratively fine-tune a large language model (LLM) by exchanging locally updated parameters with a subset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Nuocheng Yang , Sihua Wang , Ouwen Huan , Mingzhe Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek , Changchuan Yin

Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across various tasks. Yet, fine-tuning such massive models in federated learning (FL) settings poses significant challenges due to resource constraints and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Bumjun Kim , Wan Choi

Foundation models have revolutionized artificial intelligence by providing robust, versatile architectures pre-trained on large-scale datasets. However, adapting these massive models to specific downstream tasks requires fine-tuning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jieming Bian , Yuanzhe Peng , Lei Wang , Yin Huang , Jie Xu