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A typical setup in many machine learning scenarios involves a server that holds a model and a user that possesses data, and the challenge is to perform inference while safeguarding the privacy of both parties. Private Inference has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zirui Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Rawad Bitar , Netanel Raviv

In this paper, we explore a cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework that utilizes orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms. Under the control of a central processing unit (CPU), multiple access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Zihuan Wang , Vincent W. S. Wong , Robert Schober

In this paper, we study the problem of federated learning over a wireless channel with user sampling, modeled by a Gaussian multiple access channel, subject to central and local differential privacy (DP/LDP) constraints. It has been shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Mohamed Seif , Wei-Ting Chang , Ravi Tandon

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its cutting-edge AI-enabled applications (e.g., autonomous vehicles and smart industries) combine two paradigms: data-driven systems and their deployment on the edge. Usually, edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ghazal Sobhani , Md. Monzurul Amin Ifath , Tushar Sharma , Israat Haque

Deploying machine learning (ML) models on user devices can improve privacy (by keeping data local) and reduce inference latency. Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are a practical solution for protecting proprietary models, yet existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sina Abdollahi , Mohammad Maheri , Sandra Siby , Marios Kogias , Hamed Haddadi

Machine intelligence on edge devices enables low-latency processing and improved privacy, but is often limited by the energy and delay of moving and converting data. Current systems frequently avoid local model storage by sending queries to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sri Krishna Vadlamani , Kfir Sulimany , Zhihui Gao , Tingjun Chen , Dirk Englund

We study a distributed machine learning problem carried out by an edge server and multiple agents in a wireless network. The objective is to minimize a global function that is a sum of the agents' local loss functions. And the optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Howard H. Yang , Zihan Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality content generation, yet their intensive computational requirements for inference pose challenges for resource-constrained edge devices. Cloud-based solutions aid in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Nan Li , Wanting Yang , Marie Siew , Zehui Xiong , Binbin Chen , Shiwen Mao , Kwok-Yan Lam

Learning at the edge is a challenging task from several perspectives, since data must be collected by end devices (e.g. sensors), possibly pre-processed (e.g. data compression), and finally processed remotely to output the result of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Mattia Merluzzi , Claudio Battiloro , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unifies wireless communication and sensing by sharing spectrum and hardware, which often incurs trade-offs between two functions due to limited resources. However, this paper shifts focus to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Mingjie Yang , Guangming Liang , Dongzhu Liu , Lei Zhang , Kaibin Huang

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with the Internet of Things (IoT) enables task-oriented communication for multi-edge cooperative inference system, where edge devices transmit extracted features of local sensory data to an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Dongwon Kim , Jiwan Seo , Joonhyuk Kang

The growing demand for intelligent services on resource-constrained edge devices has spurred the development of collaborative inference systems that distribute workloads across end devices, edge servers, and the cloud. While most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Seohyeon Cha , Kevin Chan , Gustavo de Veciana , Haris Vikalo

When neural network model and data are outsourced to cloud server for inference, it is desired to preserve the confidentiality of model and data as the involved parties (i.e., cloud server, model providing client and data providing client)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Pinglan Liu , Wensheng Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm to accommodate the increasingly prosperous delay-sensitive and computation-intensive applications in 5G systems. To achieve optimum computation performance in a dynamic MEC environment,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Xian Li , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Over-the-air computation (OAC) is a promising technique to realize fast model aggregation in the uplink of federated edge learning. OAC, however, hinges on accurate channel-gain precoding and strict synchronization among the edge devices,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz , Soung Chang Liew

Facing the trend of merging wireless communications and multi-access edge computing (MEC), this article studies computation offloading in the beyond fifth-generation networks. To address the technical challenges originating from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Zhi Liu , Ning Zhang , Yusheng Ji

A new machine learning (ML) technique termed as federated learning (FL) aims to preserve data at the edge devices and to only exchange ML model parameters in the learning process. FL not only reduces the communication needs but also helps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Xiang Ma , Haijian Sun , Qun Wang , Rose Qingyang Hu

Deep Ensembles are a simple, reliable, and effective method of improving both the predictive performance and uncertainty estimates of deep learning approaches. However, they are widely criticised as being computationally expensive, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Guoxuan Xia , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

In this paper, we study the problem of federated learning (FL) over a wireless channel, modeled by a Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC), subject to local differential privacy (LDP) constraints. We show that the superposition nature of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Mohamed Seif , Ravi Tandon , Ming Li

Cooperative decentralized learning relies on direct information exchange between communicating agents, each with access to locally available datasets. The goal is to agree on model parameters that are optimal over all data. However, sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jasmine Bayrooti , Zhan Gao , Amanda Prorok