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Compression is an efficient way to relieve the tremendous communication overhead of federated learning (FL) systems. However, for the existing works, the information loss under compression will lead to unexpected model/gradient deviation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jiaming Yan , Jianchun Liu , Hongli Xu , Liusheng Huang , Jiantao Gong , Xudong Liu , Kun Hou

Quantization is a common approach to mitigate the communication cost of federated learning (FL). In practice, the quantized local parameters are further encoded via an entropy coding technique, such as Huffman coding, for efficient data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , Ali Bereyhi

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with gradient compression has become a popular communication-efficient solution for accelerating distributed learning. One commonly used method for gradient compression is Top-K sparsification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mengzhe Ruan , Guangfeng Yan , Yuanzhang Xiao , Linqi Song , Weitao Xu

We propose a novel algorithm for distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with compressed gradient communication in the parameter-server framework. Our gradient compression technique, named flattened one-bit stochastic gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Alexander Stollenwerk , Laurent Jacques

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with integrated sensing, communication, computation and control (ISC3) capabilities have become key enablers of next-generation wireless networks. Federated edge learning (FEL) leverages UAVs as mobile…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xiangwang Hou , Xianghe Wang , Jiacheng Wang , Zekai Zhang , Jun Du , Jingjing Wang , Yong Ren

The growing complexity of neural networks hinders the deployment of distributed machine learning on resource-constrained devices. Split learning (SL) offers a promising solution by partitioning the large model and offloading the primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zehang Lin , Miao Yang , Haihan Zhu , Zheng Lin , Jianhao Huang , Jing Yang , Guangjin Pan , Dianxin Luan , Zihan Fang , Shunzhi Zhu , Wei Ni , John Thompson

In this paper, we design two compressed decentralized algorithms for solving nonconvex stochastic optimization under two different scenarios. Both algorithms adopt a momentum technique to achieve fast convergence and a message-compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wei Liu , Anweshit Panda , Ujwal Pandey , Christopher Brissette , Yikang Shen , George M. Slota , Naigang Wang , Jie Chen , Yangyang Xu

Federated learning enables cooperative training among massively distributed clients by sharing their learned local model parameters. However, with increasing model size, deploying federated learning requires a large communication bandwidth,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Rui Song , Liguo Zhou , Lingjuan Lyu , Andreas Festag , Alois Knoll

Parallel implementations of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) have received significant research attention, thanks to excellent scalability properties of this algorithm, and to its efficiency in the context of training deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Dan Alistarh , Demjan Grubic , Jerry Li , Ryota Tomioka , Milan Vojnovic

We present a new method that includes three key components of distributed optimization and federated learning: variance reduction of stochastic gradients, partial participation, and compressed communication. We prove that the new method has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Alexander Tyurin , Peter Richtárik

In this paper, a new learning algorithm for Federated Learning (FL) is introduced. The proposed scheme is based on a weighted gradient aggregation using two-step optimization to offer a flexible training pipeline. Herein, two different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Kenichi Kumatani , Robert Gmyr , Yashesh Gaur , Sefik Emre Eskimez

Communication costs within Federated learning hinder the system scalability for reaching more data from more clients. The proposed FL adopts a hub-and-spoke network topology. All clients communicate through the central server. Hence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Chun-Chih Kuo , Ted Tsei Kuo , Chia-Yu Lin

Network consensus optimization has received increasing attention in recent years and has found important applications in many scientific and engineering fields. To solve network consensus optimization problems, one of the most well-known…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xin Zhang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu , Elizabeth S. Bentley

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving approach to train a global model at a central server by collaborating with wireless devices, each with its own local training data set. In this paper, we present a compressive sensing approach for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Yo-Seb Jeon , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Jun Li , H. Vincent Poor

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed deep learning paradigm that involves substantial communication and computation effort, which is a problem for resource-constrained mobile and IoT devices. Model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xiaopeng Jiang , Cristian Borcea

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

Distributed model training suffers from communication bottlenecks due to frequent model updates transmitted across compute nodes. To alleviate these bottlenecks, practitioners use gradient compression techniques like sparsification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Saurabh Agarwal , Hongyi Wang , Kangwook Lee , Shivaram Venkataraman , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Large pre-trained models have exhibited remarkable achievements across various domains. The substantial training costs associated with these models have led to wide studies of fine-tuning for effectively harnessing their capabilities in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Linxiao Cao , Yifei Zhu , Wei Gong

Adapting foundation models for medical image analysis requires finetuning them on a considerable amount of data because of extreme distribution shifts between natural (source) data used for pretraining and medical (target) data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Mothilal Asokan , Joseph Geo Benjamin , Mohammad Yaqub , Karthik Nandakumar

Research in semantic communication has garnered considerable attention, particularly in the area of image transmission, where joint source-channel coding (JSCC)-based neural network (NN) modules are frequently employed. However, these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Yoon Huh , Bumjun Kim , Wan Choi