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Federated learning (FL) with over-the-air computation can efficiently utilize the communication bandwidth but is susceptible to analog aggregation error. Excluding those devices with weak channel conditions can reduce the aggregation error,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Faeze Moradi Kalarde , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Yahia A. Eldemerdash Ahmed , Ho Ting Cheng

To mitigate communication overheads in distributed model training, several studies propose the use of compressed stochastic gradients, usually achieved by sparsification or quantization. Such techniques achieve high compression ratios, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Hongyi Wang , Saurabh Agarwal , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

A rich body of prior work has highlighted the existence of communication bottlenecks in synchronous data-parallel training. To alleviate these bottlenecks, a long line of recent work proposes gradient and model compression methods. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Saurabh Agarwal , Hongyi Wang , Shivaram Venkataraman , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

In federated learning (FL), reducing the communication overhead is one of the most critical challenges since the parameter server and the mobile devices share the training parameters over wireless links. With such consideration, we adopt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Richeng Jin , Xiaofan He , Huaiyu Dai

Sign-based algorithms (e.g. signSGD) have been proposed as a biased gradient compression technique to alleviate the communication bottleneck in training large neural networks across multiple workers. We show simple convex counter-examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Quentin Rebjock , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Recent advances in machine learning, wireless communication, and mobile hardware technologies promisingly enable federated learning (FL) over massive mobile edge devices, which opens new horizons for numerous intelligent mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Liang Li , Dian Shi , Ronghui Hou , Hui Li , Miao Pan , Zhu Han

Efficiently running federated learning (FL) on resource-constrained devices is challenging since they are required to train computationally intensive deep neural networks (DNN) independently. DNN partitioning-based FL (DPFL) has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Di Wu , Rehmat Ullah , Philip Rodgers , Peter Kilpatrick , Ivor Spence , Blesson Varghese

One of the main focuses in distributed learning is communication efficiency, since model aggregation at each round of training can consist of millions to billions of parameters. Several model compression methods, such as gradient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Naifu Zhang , Meixia Tao , Jia Wang , Fan Xu

Federated learning (FL) ameliorates privacy concerns in settings where a central server coordinates learning from data distributed across many clients. The clients train locally and communicate the models they learn to the server;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Monica Ribero , Haris Vikalo

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique that enables many edge devices to train a machine learning model collaboratively in wireless networks. By exploiting the superposition nature of wireless waveforms, over-the-air computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Naifu Zhang , Meixia Tao

In the era of advanced technologies, mobile devices are equipped with computing and sensing capabilities that gather excessive amounts of data. These amounts of data are suitable for training different learning models. Cooperated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Muhammad Asad , Ahmed Moustafa , Takayuki Ito , Muhammad Aslam

Lossy gradient compression has become a practical tool to overcome the communication bottleneck in centrally coordinated distributed training of machine learning models. However, algorithms for decentralized training with compressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Thijs Vogels , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Martin Jaggi

We consider the problem of communication efficient distributed optimization where multiple nodes exchange important algorithm information in every iteration to solve large problems. In particular, we focus on the stochastic variance-reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Sindri Magnusson

Communication compression is a crucial technique for modern distributed learning systems to alleviate their communication bottlenecks over slower networks. Despite recent intensive studies of gradient compression for data parallel-style…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Jue Wang , Binhang Yuan , Luka Rimanic , Yongjun He , Tri Dao , Beidi Chen , Christopher Re , Ce Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm in which multiple clients collaboratively train a global model by exchanging only model updates with the central server without sharing the local data of the clients. Due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jonas Klotz , Barış Büyüktaş , Begüm Demir

We address the prominent communication bottleneck in federated learning (FL). We specifically consider stochastic FL, in which models or compressed model updates are specified by distributions rather than deterministic parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Nir Weinberger , Deniz Gündüz

Federated fine-tuning of on-device large language models (LLMs) mitigates privacy concerns by preventing raw data sharing. However, the intensive computational and memory demands pose significant challenges for resource-constrained edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Tao Li , Yulin Tang , Yiyang Song , Cong Wu , Xihui Liu , Pan Li , Xianhao Chen

Recent advancements in semantic communication have primarily focused on image transmission, where neural network-based joint source-channel coding modules play a central role. However, such systems often experience semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Yoon Huh , Bumjun Kim , Wan Choi

Federated Learning (FL) in mobile environments faces significant communication bottlenecks. Gradient compression has proven as an effective solution to this issue, offering substantial benefits in environments with limited bandwidth and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Rongwei Lu , Yutong Jiang , Yinan Mao , Chen Tang , Bin Chen , Laizhong Cui , Zhi Wang

Compressed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithms have been recently proposed to address the communication bottleneck in distributed and decentralized optimization problems, such as those that arise in federated machine learning.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-21 Adarsh M. Subramaniam , Akshayaa Magesh , Venugopal V. Veeravalli