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Federated Learning (FL) plays a critical role in distributed systems. In these systems, data privacy and confidentiality hold paramount importance, particularly within edge-based data processing systems such as IoT devices deployed in smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Humaid Ahmed Desai , Amr Hilal , Hoda Eldardiry

Communication costs within Federated learning hinder the system scalability for reaching more data from more clients. The proposed FL adopts a hub-and-spoke network topology. All clients communicate through the central server. Hence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Chun-Chih Kuo , Ted Tsei Kuo , Chia-Yu Lin

Federated learning (FL) involves training a model over massive distributed devices, while keeping the training data localized. This form of collaborative learning exposes new tradeoffs among model convergence speed, model accuracy, balance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Zheng Chai , Yujing Chen , Ali Anwar , Liang Zhao , Yue Cheng , Huzefa Rangwala

Federated learning (FL) enables distribution of machine learning workloads from the cloud to resource-limited edge devices. Unfortunately, current deep networks remain not only too compute-heavy for inference and training on edge devices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Sameer Bibikar , Haris Vikalo , Zhangyang Wang , Xiaohan Chen

The prevalent communication efficient federated learning (FL) frameworks usually take advantages of model gradient compression or model distillation. However, the unbalanced local data distributions (either in quantity or quality) of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Beibei Li , Zerui Shao , Ao Liu , Peiran Wang

Federated Learning (FL) requires frequent exchange of model parameters, which leads to long communication delay, especially when the network environments of clients vary greatly. Moreover, the parameter server needs to wait for the slowest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zhiying Feng , Xu Chen , Qiong Wu , Wen Wu , Xiaoxi Zhang , Qianyi Huang

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices without sharing raw data, but applying FL to multi-modal settings introduces significant challenges. Clients typically possess heterogeneous modalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mohamed Badi , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Mehdi Bennis

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple resource-constrained edge devices with varying levels of heterogeneity to collaboratively train a global model. However, devices with limited capacity can create bottlenecks and slow down model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Afsaneh Mahanipour , Hana Khamfroush

Federated learning (FL) enables the collaborative training of deep neural networks across decentralized data archives (i.e., clients), where each client stores data locally and only shares model updates with a central server. This makes FL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Barış Büyüktaş , Jonas Klotz , Begüm Demir

Reducing communication overhead in federated learning (FL) is challenging but crucial for large-scale distributed privacy-preserving machine learning. While methods utilizing sparsification or others can largely lower the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuhao Zhou , Mingjia Shi , Yuanxi Li , Qing Ye , Yanan Sun , Jiancheng Lv

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy by keeping raw data local. However, FL suffers from significant communication overhead due to the frequent exchange of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chaimaa Medjadji , Sadi Alawadi , Feras M. Awaysheh , Guilain Leduc , Sylvain Kubler , Yves Le Traon

Although Federated Learning has been widely studied in recent years, there are still high overhead expenses in each communication round for large-scale models such as Vision Transformer. To lower the communication complexity, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junkang Liu , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hongying Liu , Yuangang Li , YunXiang Gong

The performance of Transfer Learning (TL) heavily relies on effective pretraining, which demands large datasets and substantial computational resources. As a result, executing TL is often challenging for individual model developers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Evelyn Ma , Chao Pan , Rasoul Etesami , Han Zhao , Olgica Milenkovic

Federated learning (FL) has prevailed as an efficient and privacy-preserved scheme for distributed learning. In this work, we mainly focus on the optimization of computation and communication in FL from a view of pruning. By adopting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zheqi Zhu , Yuchen Shi , Jiajun Luo , Fei Wang , Chenghui Peng , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated Learning marks a turning point in the implementation of decentralized machine learning (especially deep learning) for wireless devices by protecting users' privacy and safeguarding raw data from third-party access. It assigns the…

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging learning paradigm without violating users' privacy. However, large model size and frequent model aggregation cause serious communication bottleneck for FL. To reduce the communication volume,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Linping Qu , Shenghui Song , Chi-Ying Tsui

In this paper, a communication-efficient federated learning (FL) framework is proposed for improving the convergence rate of FL under a limited uplink capacity. The central idea of the proposed framework is to transmit the values and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Jaewon Yun , Yongjeong Oh , Yo-Seb Jeon , H. Vincent Poor

As a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) enables all the involved devices to train a global model collaboratively without exposing their local data privacy. However, for non-IID scenarios, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ming Hu , Tian Liu , Zhiwei Ling , Zhihao Yue , Mingsong Chen

Federated learning can train models without directly providing local data to the server. However, the frequent updating of the local model brings the problem of large communication overhead. Recently, scholars have achieved the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ying Zhuansun , Dandan Li , Xiaohong Huang , Caijun Sun

Despite demonstrating superior performance across a variety of linguistic tasks, pre-trained large language models (LMs) often require fine-tuning on specific datasets to effectively address different downstream tasks. However, fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Zhidong Gao , Yu Zhang , Zhenxiao Zhang , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo