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While centralized servers pose a risk of being a single point of failure, decentralized approaches like blockchain offer a compelling solution by implementing a consensus mechanism among multiple entities. Merging distributed computing with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ji Liu , Chunlu Chen , Yu Li , Lin Sun , Yulun Song , Jingbo Zhou , Bo Jing , Dejing Dou

Institutions in highly regulated domains such as finance and healthcare often have restrictive rules around data sharing. Federated learning is a distributed learning framework that enables multi-institutional collaborations on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Shivam Kalra , Junfeng Wen , Jesse C. Cresswell , Maksims Volkovs , Hamid R. Tizhoosh

Motivated by the explosive computing capabilities at end user equipments, as well as the growing privacy concerns over sharing sensitive raw data, a new machine learning paradigm, named federated learning (FL) has emerged. By training…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Long Shi , Taotao Wang , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is a promising machine learning paradigm for bringing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the network edge. Running DFL on top of edge networks, however, faces severe performance challenges…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Tingyang Sun , Tuan Nguyen , Ting He

Federated learning has recently gained popularity as a framework for distributed clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model using local data. While traditional federated learning relies on a central server for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 I-Cheng Lin , Osman Yagan , Carlee Joe-Wong

Fully decentralised federated learning enables collaborative training of individual machine learning models on a distributed network of communicating devices while keeping the training data localised on each node. This approach avoids…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Arash Badie-Modiri , Chiara Boldrini , Lorenzo Valerio , János Kertész , Márton Karsai

We consider the problem of decentralized deep learning where multiple agents collaborate to learn from a distributed dataset. While there exist several decentralized deep learning approaches, the majority consider a central parameter-server…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Aditya Balu , Zhanhong Jiang , Sin Yong Tan , Chinmay Hedge , Young M Lee , Soumik Sarkar

Foundation models are at the forefront of AI research, appealing for their ability to learn from vast datasets and cater to diverse tasks. Yet, their significant computational demands raise issues of environmental impact and the risk of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Leyang Xue , Meghana Madhyastha , Randal Burns , Myungjin Lee , Mahesh K. Marina

The emerging Federated Edge Learning (FEL) technique has drawn considerable attention, which not only ensures good machine learning performance but also solves "data island" problems caused by data privacy concerns. However, large-scale FEL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Chunxiao Jiang , Yi Liu , Song Guo , Yang Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Cyril Leung , Chunyan Miao

Federated learning is a recent advance in privacy protection. In this context, a trusted curator aggregates parameters optimized in decentralized fashion by multiple clients. The resulting model is then distributed back to all clients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Robin C. Geyer , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

In recent advancements in machine learning, federated learning allows a network of distributed clients to collaboratively develop a global model without needing to share their local data. This technique aims to safeguard privacy, countering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Davide Domini , Gianluca Aguzzi , Nicolas Farabegoli , Mirko Viroli , Lukas Esterle

Federated learning is a promising privacy-preserving paradigm for distributed machine learning. In this context, there is sometimes a need for a specialized process called machine unlearning, which is required when the effect of some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Heng Xu , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

Decentralized learning offers privacy and communication efficiency when data are naturally distributed among agents communicating over an underlying graph. Motivated by overparameterized learning settings, in which models are trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hossein Taheri , Christos Thrampoulidis

We consider the fully decentralized machine learning scenario where many users with personal datasets collaborate to learn models through local peer-to-peer exchanges, without a central coordinator. We propose to train personalized models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Valentina Zantedeschi , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative paradigm in the field of distributed machine learning, enabling multiple clients such as mobile devices, edge nodes, or organizations to collaboratively train a shared global model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ratun Rahman

Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving technique for collaborative model training across heterogeneously distributed silos. Yet, its reliance on a single central server introduces potential bottlenecks and risks of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Huong Nguyen , Hong-Tri Nguyen , Praveen Kumar Donta , Susanna Pirttikangas , Lauri Lovén

The vast majority of applications at this moment rely on centralized servers to relay messages between clients, where these servers are considered trusted third-parties. With the rise of blockchain technologies over the last few years,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Harry Halpin

We consider a multi-agent reinforcement learning problem where each agent seeks to maximize a shared reward while interacting with other agents, and they may or may not be able to communicate. Typically the agents do not have access to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Alex Tong Lin , Mark J. Debord , Katia Estabridis , Gary Hewer , Guido Montufar , Stanley Osher

This paper studies decentralized federated learning algorithms in wireless IoT networks. The traditional parameter server architecture for federated learning faces some problems such as low fault tolerance, large communication overhead and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shuzhen Chen , Dongxiao Yu , Yifei Zou , Jiguo Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng

Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine learning models without a central coordinator. In many scenarios communication between devices is energy demanding and time consuming and forms the bottleneck of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Dmitry Kovalev , Anastasia Koloskova , Martin Jaggi , Peter Richtarik , Sebastian U. Stich