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Federated learning (FL) has been widely regarded as a promising paradigm for privacy preservation of raw data in machine learning. Although, the data privacy in FL is locally protected to some extent, it is still a desideratum to enhance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Yifan Wang , Xianghui Cao , Shi Jin , Mo-Yuen Chow

Federated Learning (FL) can protect the privacy of the vehicles in vehicle edge computing (VEC) to a certain extent through sharing the gradients of vehicles' local models instead of local data. The gradients of vehicles' local models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Cui Zhang , Wenjun Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Qiang Fan , Jiangzhou Wang , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, a green-quantized FL framework, which represents data with a finite precision level in both local training and uplink transmission, is proposed. Here, the finite precision level is captured through the use of quantized neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Minsu Kim , Walid Saad , Mohammad Mozaffari , Merouane Debbah

Federated Learning (FL) incurs high communication overhead, which can be greatly alleviated by compression for model updates. Yet the tradeoff between compression and model accuracy in the networked environment remains unclear and, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Laizhong Cui , Xiaoxin Su , Yipeng Zhou , Jiangchuan Liu

Federated learning enables collaborative machine learning while preserving data privacy, but high communication and computation costs, exacerbated by statistical and device heterogeneity, limit its practicality in mobile edge computing.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Jinghong Tan , Zhichen Zhang , Kun Guo , Tsung-Hui Chang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Federated learning (FL) enables geographically dispersed edge devices (i.e., clients) to learn a global model without sharing the local datasets, where each client performs gradient descent with its local data and uploads the gradients to a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Heting Liu , Fang He , Guohong Cao

Pre-trained BERT models have achieved impressive performance in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, in many real-world situations, textual data are usually decentralized over many clients and unable to be uploaded to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Zhengyang Li , Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

The widespread adoption of Federated Learning (FL), a privacy-preserving distributed learning methodology, has been impeded by the challenge of high communication overheads, typically arising from the transmission of large-scale models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zihao Zhao , Yuzhu Mao , Zhenpeng Shi , Yang Liu , Tian Lan , Wenbo Ding , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Communication has been known to be one of the primary bottlenecks of federated learning (FL), and yet existing studies have not addressed the efficient communication design, particularly in wireless FL where both uplink and downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Sihui Zheng , Cong Shen , Xiang Chen

Training a machine learning model with federated edge learning (FEEL) is typically time-consuming due to the constrained computation power of edge devices and limited wireless resources in edge networks. In this paper, the training time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Peixi Liu , Jiamo Jiang , Guangxu Zhu , Lei Cheng , Wei Jiang , Wu Luo , Ying Du , Zhiqin Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a powerful distributed machine learning framework where a server aggregates models trained by different clients without accessing their private data. Hierarchical FL, with a client-edge-cloud aggregation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient federated learning (FL) framework for the energy-constrained devices over cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN), where each device adopts quantized neural networks (QNNs) to train a local FL…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Jiali Wang , Yijie Mao , Ting Wang , Yuanming Shi

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful approach to safeguard data privacy by training models across distributed edge devices without centralizing local data. Despite advancements in homogeneous data scenarios, maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yuting Ma , Shengeng Tang , Xiaohua Xu , Lechao Cheng

Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to share learning parameters instead of local data, reducing communication overhead. Traditional wireless networks face latency challenges with FL. In contrast, Cell-Free Massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Afsaneh Mahmoudi , Ming Xiao , Emil Björnson

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of devices to collaboratively learn a model without sharing their raw data. Despite its practical efficiency and effectiveness, the iterative on-device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Bing Luo , Xiang Li , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

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 learning (FL) aims to minimize the communication complexity of training a model over heterogeneous data distributed across many clients. A common approach is local methods, where clients take multiple optimization steps over local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Charlie Hou , Kiran K. Thekumparampil , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative approach for enabling distributed machine learning while preserving user privacy, yet it faces challenges like communication inefficiencies and reliance on centralized infrastructures,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Sai Puppala , Ismail Hossain , Md Jahangir Alam , Sajedul Talukder , Zahidur Talukder , Syed Bahauddin

Federated learning (FL) has been recognized as a viable distributed learning paradigm for training a machine learning model across distributed clients without uploading raw data. However, FL in wireless networks still faces two major…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Xuefeng Han , Wen Chen , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Qingqing Wu , Kang Wei , Xiumei Deng , Zhen Mei

While federated learning (FL) systems often utilize quantization to battle communication and computational bottlenecks, they have heretofore been limited to deploying fixed-precision quantization schemes. Meanwhile, the concept of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Huancheng Chen , Haris Vikalo