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Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm where models are trained on distributed devices and are aggregated at a central server. Existing FL frameworks assume simple two-tier network topologies where end devices…

Edge computing allows artificial intelligence and machine learning models to be deployed on edge devices, where they can learn from local data and collaborate to form a global model. Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Chris Xing Tian , Yibing Liu , Haoliang Li , Ray C. C. Cheung , Shiqi Wang

In federated learning (FL), a machine learning (ML) model is collectively trained by a large number of users, using their private data in their local devices. With top $r$ sparsification in FL, the users only upload the most significant $r$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Sajani Vithana , Sennur Ulukus

This paper proposes a cooperative mechanism for mitigating the performance degradation due to non-independent-and-identically-distributed (non-IID) data in collaborative machine learning (ML), namely federated learning (FL), which trains an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Naoya Yoshida , Takayuki Nishio , Masahiro Morikura , Koji Yamamoto , Ryo Yonetani

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed approach to collaboratively training machine learning models. FL requires a high level of communication between the devices and a central server, thus imposing several challenges, including…

In this paper, we address the dichotomy between heterogeneous models and simultaneous training in Federated Learning (FL) via a clustering framework. We define a new clustering model for FL based on the (optimal) local models of the users:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-24 Harshvardhan , Avishek Ghosh , Arya Mazumdar

Federated learning (FL) rests on the notion of training a global model in a decentralized manner. Under this setting, mobile devices perform computations on their local data before uploading the required updates to improve the global model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Shashi Raj Pandey , Nguyen H. Tran , Mehdi Bennis , Yan Kyaw Tun , Aunas Manzoor , Choong Seon Hong

We address the problem of federated learning (FL) where users are distributed and partitioned into clusters. This setup captures settings where different groups of users have their own objectives (learning tasks) but by aggregating their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Avishek Ghosh , Jichan Chung , Dong Yin , Kannan Ramchandran

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning approach where nodes collaboratively train a global model. As more nodes participate in a round of FL, the effectiveness of individual model updates by nodes also diminishes. In this study, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Akash Dhasade , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Tuan-Anh Nguyen , Rafael Pires , Martijn de Vos

This paper presents a study on asynchronous Federated Learning (FL) in a mobile network setting. The majority of FL algorithms assume that communication between clients and the server is always available, however, this is not the case in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jieming Bian , Jie Xu

On-device machine learning (ML) has brought about the accessibility to a tremendous amount of data from the users while keeping their local data private instead of storing it in a central entity. However, for privacy guarantee, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Eunjeong Jeong , Seungeun Oh , Jihong Park , Hyesung Kim , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

The paper considers independent reinforcement learning (IRL) for multi-agent collaborative decision-making in the paradigm of federated learning (FL). However, FL generates excessive communication overheads between agents and a remote…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Xing Xu , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Current data compression methods, such as sparsification in Federated Averaging (FedAvg), effectively enhance the communication efficiency of Federated Learning (FL). However, these methods encounter challenges such as the straggler problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Zichen Tang , Junlin Huang , Rudan Yan , Yuxin Wang , Zhenheng Tang , Shaohuai Shi , Amelie Chi Zhou , Xiaowen Chu

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed training paradigm for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) networks by significantly reducing communication overhead. However, its deployment faces critical challenges, e.g., topology-induced…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Jinhao Yi , Weijun Gao , Chong Han , Ozgur Gurbuz , Josep M. Jornet

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising privacy-preserving distributed learning framework where a server aggregates models updated by multiple devices without accessing their private datasets. Hierarchical FL (HFL), as a device-edge-cloud…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xiaonan Liu , Shiqiang Wang , Yansha Deng , Arumugam Nallanathan

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients without sharing local data, thereby enhancing privacy and facilitating collaboration among clients connected via social networks. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chenchen Lin , Xuehe Wang

Federated Learning(FL) is popular as a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm for generating a single model on decentralized data. However, statistical heterogeneity poses a significant challenge for FL. As a subfield of FL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Keting Yin , Jiayi Mao

Scaling Federated Learning (FL) to billion-parameter models forces a challenging trade-off between privacy, scalability, and model utility. Existing solutions often tackle these challenges in isolation, sacrificing accuracy, relying on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dario Fenoglio , Pasquale Polverino , Jacopo Quizi , Martin Gjoreski , Akash Dhasade , Marc Langheinrich

Federated learning (FL) is a popular machine learning technique that enables multiple users to collaboratively train a model while maintaining the user data privacy. A significant challenge in FL is the communication bottleneck in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Elissa Mhanna , Mohamad Assaad