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The longstanding goals of federated learning (FL) require rigorous privacy guarantees and low communication overhead while holding a relatively high model accuracy. However, simultaneously achieving all the goals is extremely challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 He Yang

The optimal implementation of federated learning (FL) in practical edge computing systems has been an outstanding problem. In this paper, we propose an optimization-based quantized FL algorithm, which can appropriately fit a general edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yangchen Li , Ying Cui , Vincent Lau

Under the organization of the base station (BS), wireless federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among multiple devices. However, the BS is merely responsible for aggregating local updates during the training process,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jingheng Zheng , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Deniz Gunduz , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zhu Han

This paper addresses the critical challenges of communication overhead, data heterogeneity, and privacy in deep learning for channel state information (CSI) feedback in massive MIMO systems. To this end, we propose Fed-PELAD, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yixiang Zhou , Tong Wu , Meixia Tao , Jianhua Mo

This paper considers the problem of decentralized, personalized federated learning. For centralized personalized federated learning, a penalty that measures the deviation from the local model and its average, is often added to the objective…

The rapid proliferation of large language models (LLMs) has created an unprecedented demand for fine-tuning models for specialized domains, such as medical science. While federated learning (FL) offers a decentralized and privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Amir Faiyaz , Tara Salman

Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving predictive maintenance across distributed aerospace fleets, but gradient communication overhead constrains deployment on bandwidth-limited IoT nodes. This paper investigates the impact of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Abdelkarim Loukili

Federated learning is a method used in machine learning to allow multiple devices to work together on a model without sharing their private data. Each participant keeps their private data on their system and trains a local model and only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Feiran Yang

One of the most significant bottleneck in training large scale machine learning models on parameter server (PS) is the communication overhead, because it needs to frequently exchange the model gradients between the workers and servers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Guoxin Cui , Jun Xu , Wei Zeng , Yanyan Lan , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a communication-efficient algorithmic framework for distributed learning across multiple agents. While standard FL formulations capture unconstrained or globally constrained problems, many practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Mohammadjavad Ebrahimi , Daniel Burbano , Farzad Yousefian

With the booming deployment of Internet of Things, health monitoring applications have gradually prospered. Within the recent COVID-19 pandemic situation, interest in permanent remote health monitoring solutions has raised, targeting to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Dong Chu , Wael Jaafar , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Optimal algorithm design for federated learning (FL) remains an open problem. This paper explores the full potential of FL in practical edge computing systems where workers may have different computation and communication capabilities, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yangchen Li , Ying Cui , Vincent Lau

Federated learning (FL) is a promising paradigm to enable privacy-preserving deep learning from distributed data. Most previous works are based on federated average (FedAvg), which, however, faces several critical issues, including a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model building among a large number of participants without the need for explicit data sharing. But this approach shows vulnerabilities when privacy inference attacks are applied to it. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Pretom Roy Ovi , Emon Dey , Nirmalya Roy , Aryya Gangopadhyay

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative method for training machine learning models while preserving the confidentiality of the participants' training data. Nevertheless, FL is vulnerable to reconstruction attacks that exploit shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Enrico Sorbera , Federica Zanetti , Giacomo Brandi , Alessandro Tomasi , Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin , Silvio Ranise

Traditionally, federated learning (FL) aims to train a single global model while collaboratively using multiple clients and a server. Two natural challenges that FL algorithms face are heterogeneity in data across clients and collaboration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Kaan Ozkara , Navjot Singh , Deepesh Data , Suhas Diggavi

Emerging real-time computer vision (CV) applications on wireless edge devices demand energy-efficient and privacy-preserving learning. Federated learning (FL) enables on-device training without raw data sharing, yet remains challenging in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiangwang Hou , Jingjing Wang , Fangming Guan , Jun Du , Chunxiao Jiang , Yong Ren

We consider machine learning applications that train a model by leveraging data distributed over a trusted network, where communication constraints can create a performance bottleneck. A number of recent approaches propose to overcome this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Osama A. Hanna , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

Communication overhead is a known bottleneck in federated learning (FL). To address this, lossy compression is commonly used on the information communicated between the server and clients during training. In horizontal FL, where each client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Pedro Valdeira , João Xavier , Cláudia Soares , Yuejie Chi

In contrast to training traditional machine learning (ML) models in data centers, federated learning (FL) trains ML models over local datasets contained on resource-constrained heterogeneous edge devices. Existing FL algorithms aim to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 El Houcine Bergou , Konstantin Burlachenko , Aritra Dutta , Peter Richtárik