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Communication efficiency is of importance for wireless federated learning systems. In this paper, we propose a communication-efficient strategy for federated learning over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiple access channels…

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To enable large-scale machine learning in bandwidth-hungry environments such as wireless networks, significant progress has been made recently in designing communication-efficient federated learning algorithms with the aid of communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Zhize Li , Haoyu Zhao , Boyue Li , Yuejie Chi

Communication on heterogeneous edge networks is a fundamental bottleneck in Federated Learning (FL), restricting both model capacity and user participation. To address this issue, we introduce two novel strategies to reduce communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Sebastian Caldas , Jakub Konečny , H. Brendan McMahan , Ameet Talwalkar

Distributed learning, particularly Federated Learning (FL), faces a significant bottleneck in the communication cost, particularly the uplink transmission of client-to-server updates, which is often constrained by asymmetric bandwidth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Tomas Ortega , Chun-Yin Huang , Xiaoxiao Li , Hamid Jafarkhani

Federated learning (FL) enables devices in mobile edge computing (MEC) to collaboratively train a shared model without uploading the local data. Gradient compression may be applied to FL to alleviate the communication overheads but current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Peichun Li , Xumin Huang , Miao Pan , Rong Yu

Federated learning (FL), as an emerging collaborative learning paradigm, has garnered significant attention due to its capacity to preserve privacy within distributed learning systems. In these systems, clients collaboratively train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Xi Zhu , Songcan Yu , Junbo Wang , Qinglin Yang

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across multiple clients while optionally preserving data privacy. However, communication efficiency remains a critical bottleneck, particularly for large-scale models. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arnaud Descours , Léonard Deroose , Jan Ramon

In practical federated learning (FL), the large communication overhead between clients and the server is often a significant bottleneck. Gradient compression methods can effectively reduce this overhead, while error feedback (EF) restores…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Diying Yang , Yingwei Hou , Weigang Wu

Federated learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively learn a model in a distributed fashion. Many existing researches have focused on improving communication efficiency of high-dimensional models and addressing bias caused by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Yuzhu Mao , Zihao Zhao , Meilin Yang , Le Liang , Yang Liu , Wenbo Ding , Tian Lan , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique for training machine learning models using geographically dispersed data collected by local entities. It includes local computation and synchronization steps. To reduce the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Pengchao Han , Shiqiang Wang , Kin K. Leung

Federated learning (FL) is usually performed on resource-constrained edge devices, e.g., with limited memory for the computation. If the required memory to train a model exceeds this limit, the device will be excluded from the training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Kilian Pfeiffer , Ramin Khalili , Jörg Henkel

We consider a many-to-one wireless architecture for federated learning at the network edge, where multiple edge devices collaboratively train a model using local data. The unreliable nature of wireless connectivity, together with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Junshan Zhang , Na Li , Mehmet Dedeoglu

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) is one of the popular distributed machine learning (ML) solutions but incurs significant communication and computation costs at edge devices. Federated split learning (FSL) can train sub-models in parallel and reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yujia Mu , Cong Shen

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without exposing clients' private data, but its deployment is often constrained by the communication cost of transmitting gradients between clients and the central server,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhijing Ye , Sheng Di , Jiamin Wang , Zhiqing Zhong , Zhaorui Zhang , Xiaodong Yu

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing raw data with each other. However, it suffers the leakage of private information from uploading models. In addition, as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Chuan Ma , Ming Ding , Feng Shu , Haitao Zhao , Wen Chen , Hongbo Zhu

Over-the-air computation is a communication-efficient solution for federated learning (FL). In such a system, iterative procedure is performed: Local gradient of private loss function is updated, amplified and then transmitted by every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Rongfei Fan , Xuming An , Shiyuan Zuo , Han Hu

Federated Composite Optimization (FCO) has emerged as a promising framework for training models with structural constraints (e.g., sparsity) in distributed edge networks. However, simultaneously achieving communication efficiency and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Pu Qiu , Chen Ouyang , Yongyang Xiong , Keyou You , Wanquan Liu , Yang Shi

Distributed learning algorithms, such as the ones employed in Federated Learning (FL), require communication compression to reduce the cost of client uploads. The compression methods used in practice are often biased, making error feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Tomas Ortega , Chun-Yin Huang , Xiaoxiao Li , Hamid Jafarkhani

Federated learning often suffers from slow and unstable convergence due to the heterogeneous characteristics of participating client datasets. Such a tendency is aggravated when the client participation ratio is low since the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Geeho Kim , Jinkyu Kim , Bohyung Han