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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

We consider federated edge learning (FEEL) among mobile devices that harvest the required energy from their surroundings, and share their updates with the parameter server (PS) through a shared wireless channel. In particular, we consider…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Ozan Aygün , Mohammad Kazemi , Deniz Gündüz , Tolga M. Duman

Over-the-air federated edge learning (Air-FEEL) is a communication-efficient framework for distributed machine learning using training data distributed at edge devices. This framework enables all edge devices to transmit model updates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuding Liu , Dongzhu Liu , Guangxu Zhu , Qingjiang Shi , Caijun Zhong

Federated learning (FL) has become a transformative paradigm for distributed machine learning across wireless networks. However, the performance of FL is often hindered by the unreliable communication links between resource-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Gui Gui , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

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

Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) extends conventional Federated Learning (FL) by introducing intermediate aggregation layers, enabling distributed learning in geographically dispersed environments, particularly relevant for smart IoT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xiaohong Yang , Minghui Liwang , Liqun Fu , Yuhan Su , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Xianbin Wang , Yiguang Hong

Over-the-air federated edge learning (Air-FEEL) is a communication-efficient solution for privacy-preserving distributed learning over wireless networks. Air-FEEL allows "one-shot" over-the-air aggregation of gradient/model-updates by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Xiaowen Cao , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Shuguang Cui

We study over-the-air (OTA) federated learning (FL) for energy harvesting devices with heterogeneous data distribution over wireless fading multiple access channel (MAC). To address the impact of low energy arrivals and data heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Furkan Bagci , Busra Tegin , Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning (ML) framework that combines on-device training and server-based aggregation to train a common ML model among distributed agents. In this work, we propose an asynchronous FL design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Chung-Hsuan Hu , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we consider privacy aspects of wireless federated learning (FL) with Over-the-Air (OtA) transmission of gradient updates from multiple users/agents to an edge server. By exploiting the waveform superposition property of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jialing Liao , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

This paper studies the fast adaptive beamforming for the multiuser multiple-input single-output downlink. Existing deep learning-based approaches assume that training and testing channels follow the same distribution which causes task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Juping Zhang , Yi Yuan , Gan Zheng , Ioannis Krikidis , Kai-Kit Wong

Wireless embedded edge devices are ubiquitous in our daily lives, enabling them to gather immense data via onboard sensors and mobile applications. This offers an amazing opportunity to train machine learning (ML) models in the realm of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Varun Laxman Muttepawar , Arjun Mehra , Zubair Shaban , Ranjitha Prasad , Harshan Jagadeesh

Federated learning (FL) was designed to enable mobile phones to collaboratively learn a global model without uploading their private data to a cloud server. However, exiting FL protocols has a critical communication bottleneck in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-24 Jinliang Yuan , Mengwei Xu , Xiao Ma , Ao Zhou , Xuanzhe Liu , Shangguang Wang

This paper presents a novel gradient compression method for federated learning (FL) in wireless systems. The proposed method centers on a low-rank matrix factorization strategy for local gradient compression that is based on one iteration…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mingzhao Guo , Dongzhu Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Dingzhu Wen

Federated fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) over bandwidth-limited 6G links must meet strict round-time and energy budgets. Analog over-the-air (OTA) aggregation reduces uplink cost but is sensitive to fading and interference,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Yang Zhao , Yue Xiu , Chengxiao Dai , Ning Wei , Dusit Niyato

In this paper, the problem of delay minimization for federated learning (FL) over wireless communication networks is investigated. In the considered model, each user exploits limited local computational resources to train a local FL model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

Federated learning (FL) has been considered a promising privacy preserving distributed edge learning framework. Over-the-air computation (AirComp) leveraging analog transmission enables the aggregation of local updates directly over-the-air…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Lorenz Bielefeld , Paul Zheng , Oner Hanay , Yao Zhu , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

Low-rank model compression is a widely used technique for reducing the computational load when training machine learning models. However, existing methods often rely on relaxing the low-rank constraint of the model weights using a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-05 Ye Xue , Vincent Lau

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…

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, user equipments (UEs) are served by many distributed access points (APs), where channels are correlated due to finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Yongjian Wang , Wenjun Zhang , Fan Wei