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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

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple distributed devices to jointly train a shared model without centralizing data, but communication cost remains a major bottleneck, especially in resource-constrained environments. This paper introduces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ahmad Alhonainy , Praveen Rao

Optimization-based techniques for federated learning (FL) often come with prohibitive communication cost, as high dimensional model parameters need to be communicated repeatedly between server and clients. In this paper, we follow a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tim d'Hondt , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Robert Peharz

Federated Learning (FL) enables participant devices to collaboratively train deep learning models without sharing their data with the server or other devices, effectively addressing data privacy and computational concerns. However, FL faces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Asadullah Tariq , Tariq Qayyum , Mohamed Adel Serhani , Farag Sallabi , Ikbal Taleb , Ezedin S. Barka

Split Federated Learning (SFL) offers a promising approach for distributed model training in wireless networks, combining the layer-partitioning advantages of split learning with the federated aggregation that ensures global convergence.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Haoran Gao , Samuel D. Okegbile , Jun Cai

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that allows decentralized clients to learn collaboratively without sharing their private data. However, excessive computation and communication demands pose challenges to current FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Yue Tan , Guodong Long , Jie Ma , Lu Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Jing Jiang

Distributed and federated learning are essential paradigms for training models across decentralized data sources while preserving privacy, yet communication overhead remains a major bottleneck. This dissertation explores strategies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Kai Yi

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

There are situations where data relevant to machine learning problems are distributed across multiple locations that cannot share the data due to regulatory, competitiveness, or privacy reasons. Machine learning approaches that require data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Dimitris Stripelis , Jose Luis Ambite

Federated learning (FL) is an effective technique to directly involve edge devices in machine learning training while preserving client privacy. However, the substantial communication overhead of FL makes training challenging when edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Shiqi He , Qifan Yan , Feijie Wu , Lanjun Wang , Mathias Lécuyer , Ivan Beschastnikh

Federated Learning (FL) is an innovative distributed machine learning paradigm that enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a model without sharing their raw data, thereby preserving data privacy. Communication efficiency concerns…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Peishen Yan , Jun Li , Hao Wang , Tao Song , Yang Hua , Lu Peng , Haihui Zhou , Haibing Guan

In this work, we propose Salient Sparse Federated Learning (SSFL), a streamlined approach for sparse federated learning with efficient communication. SSFL identifies a sparse subnetwork prior to training, leveraging parameter saliency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Riyasat Ohib , Bishal Thapaliya , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite , Jingyu Liu , Vince Calhoun , Sergey Plis

Many real-world combinatorial problems involve uncertain parameters, which can be predicted given contextual features and historical data. These `predict-then-optimize' or `contextual optimization' problems have gained significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Noah Schutte , Senne Berden , Tias Guns , Krzysztof Postek , Neil Yorke-Smith

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning technique that maintains data privacy by providing a decentralized training method for machine learning models using distributed big data. This promising Federated Learning approach has also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Prakash Chourasia , Tamkanat E Ali , Sarwan Ali , Murray Pattersn

With the rapid growth in mobile computing, massive amounts of data and computing resources are now located at the edge. To this end, Federated learning (FL) is becoming a widely adopted distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm, which aims…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Li Chou , Zichang Liu , Zhuang Wang , Anshumali Shrivastava

This paper studies power-efficient uplink transmission design for federated learning (FL) that employs over-the-air analog aggregation and multi-antenna beamforming at the server. We jointly optimize device transmit weights and receive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Faeze Moradi Kalarde , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Yahia A. Eldemerdash Ahmed , Ho Ting Cheng

The objective of Federated Learning (FL) is to perform statistical inference for data which are decentralised and stored locally on networked clients. FL raises many constraints which include privacy and data ownership, communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Maxime Vono , Vincent Plassier , Alain Durmus , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Eric Moulines

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

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

Many of the machine learning tasks rely on centralized learning (CL), which requires the transmission of local datasets from the clients to a parameter server (PS) entailing huge communication overhead. To overcome this, federated learning…