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To address the communication burden and privacy concerns associated with the centralized server in Federated Learning (FL), Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has emerged, which discards the server with a peer-to-peer (P2P)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Qinglun Li , Miao Zhang , Nan Yin , Quanjun Yin , Li Shen

Federated learning (FL) encounters scalability challenges when implemented over fog networks that do not follow FL's conventional star topology architecture. Semi-decentralized FL (SD-FL) has proposed a solution for device-to-device (D2D)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Evan Chen , Shiqiang Wang , Christopher G. Brinton

The widespread adoption of smartphones and smart wearable devices has led to the widespread use of Centralized Federated Learning (CFL) for training powerful machine learning models while preserving data privacy. However, CFL faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chengyan Jiang , Jiamin Fan , Talal Halabi , Israat Haque

Federated learning (FL) is a popular technique for distributing machine learning (ML) across a set of edge devices. In this paper, we study fully decentralized FL, where in addition to devices conducting training locally, they carry out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Shahryar Zehtabi , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

This paper proposes a communication strategy for decentralized learning on wireless systems. Our discussion is based on the decentralized parallel stochastic gradient descent (D-PSGD), which is one of the state-of-the-art algorithms for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Koya Sato , Yasuyuki Satoh , Daisuke Sugimura

With the proliferation of smart devices having built-in sensors, Internet connectivity, and programmable computation capability in the era of Internet of things (IoT), tremendous data is being generated at the network edge. Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Rui Hu , Yuanxiong Guo , E. Paul. Ratazzi , Yanmin Gong

The provision of communication services via portable and mobile devices, such as aerial base stations, is a crucial concept to be realized in 5G/6G networks. Conventionally, IoT/edge devices need to transmit the data directly to the base…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Sunder Ali Khowaja , Kapal Dev , Parus Khuwaja , Paolo Bellavista

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) eliminates the need for a central aggregator, but it can expose communication patterns that reveal participant identities. This work presents UnlinkableDFL, a DFL framework that combines a peer-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Chao Feng , Thomas Grubl , Jan von der Assen , Sandrin Raphael Hunkeler , Linn Anna Spitz , Gerome Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

With rise of machine learning (ML) and the proliferation of smart mobile devices, recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in performing ML in wireless edge networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of jointly improving data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Xin Zhang , Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server but faces challenges in efficiency, stability, and trustworthiness due to communication and computational limitations among distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shan Sha , Shenglong Zhou , Lingchen Kong , Geoffrey Ye Li

In the realm of real-world devices, centralized servers in Federated Learning (FL) present challenges including communication bottlenecks and susceptibility to a single point of failure. Additionally, contemporary devices inherently exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yasser H. Khalil , Amir H. Estiri , Mahdi Beitollahi , Nader Asadi , Sobhan Hemati , Xu Li , Guojun Zhang , Xi Chen

This work tackles the challenges of data heterogeneity and communication limitations in decentralized federated learning. We focus on creating a collaboration graph that guides each client in selecting suitable collaborators for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Salma Kharrat , Marco Canini , Samuel Horvath

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging technique that allows nodes on the web to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing raw data. Dealing with stragglers, i.e., nodes with slower compute or communication than…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Sayan Biswas , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Alexis Marouani , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Martijn de Vos

There is significant recent interest to parallelize deep learning algorithms in order to handle the enormous growth in data and model sizes. While most advances focus on model parallelization and engaging multiple computing agents via using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-27 Zhanhong Jiang , Aditya Balu , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

Distributing Neural Network training is of particular interest for several reasons including scaling using computing clusters, training at data sources such as IOT devices and edge servers, utilizing underutilized resources across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Siddharth Pramod

Public safety tasks rely on the collaborative functioning of multiple edge devices (MEDs) and base stations (BSs) in different regions, consuming significant communication energy and computational resources to execute critical operations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Baosheng Li , Weifeng Gao , Zehui Xiong , Jin Xie , Binquan Guo , Miao Du

Decentralized learning and optimization is a central problem in control that encompasses several existing and emerging applications, such as federated learning. While there exists a vast literature on this topic and most methods centered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Vishnu Pandi Chellapandi , Antesh Upadhyay , Abolfazl Hashemi , Stanislaw H /. Zak

Federated Learning is a popular approach for distributed learning due to its security and computational benefits. With the advent of powerful devices in the network edge, Gossip Learning further decentralizes Federated Learning by removing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tom Goethals , Merlijn Sebrechts , Stijn De Schrijver , Filip De Turck , Bruno Volckaert

Distributed Federated Learning (DFL) enables decentralized model training across large-scale systems without a central parameter server. However, DFL faces three critical challenges: privacy leakage from honest-but-curious neighbors, slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nuocheng Yang , Sihua Wang , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin , Kaibin Huang

Decentralized optimization is emerging as a viable alternative for scalable distributed machine learning, but also introduces new challenges in terms of synchronization costs. To this end, several communication-reduction techniques, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Giorgi Nadiradze , Amirmojtaba Sabour , Peter Davies , Shigang Li , Dan Alistarh