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Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) approach that allows multiple clients to collaboratively train ML models without exchanging original training data, offering a solution that is particularly valuable in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Aditya Sinha , Zilinghan Li , Tingkai Liu , Volodymyr Kindratenko , Kibaek Kim , Ravi Madduri

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed edge devices while preserving data privacy, and typically operates in a round-based synchronous manner. However, synchronous FL suffers from latency bottlenecks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Asaf Goren , Natalie Lang , Nir Shlezinger , Alejandro Cohen

In cross-silo federated learning, clients (e.g., organizations) train a shared global model using local data. However, due to privacy concerns, the clients may not contribute enough data points during training. To address this issue, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Chao Huang , Shuqi Ke , Charles Kamhoua , Prasant Mohapatra , Xin Liu

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for training machine learning models across distributed clients. Traditionally, in FL settings, a central server assigns training efforts (or strategies) to clients. However, from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Kang Liu , Ziqi Wang , Enrique Zuazua

With the growing use of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), training large language models (LLMs) for context-sensitive reasoning and faithfulness is increasingly important. Existing RAG-oriented reinforcement learning (RL) methods rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhehao Tan , Yihan Jiao , Dan Yang , Junjie Wang , Duolin Sun , Jie Feng , Xidong Wang , Lei Liu , Yue Shen , Jian Wang , Jinjie Gu

Federated continual learning (FCL) tackles scenarios of learning from continuously emerging task data across distributed clients, where the key challenge lies in addressing both temporal forgetting over time and spatial forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kunlun Xu , Yibo Feng , Jiangmeng Li , Yongsheng Qi , Jiahuan Zhou

To address the challenges posed by the heterogeneity inherent in federated learning (FL) and to attract high-quality clients, various incentive mechanisms have been employed. However, existing incentive mechanisms are typically utilized in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Danni Yang , Yun Ji , Zhoubin Kou , Xiaoxiong Zhong , Sheng Zhang

With the arising concerns of privacy within machine learning, federated learning (FL) was invented in 2017, in which the clients, such as mobile devices, train a model and send the update to the centralized server. Choosing clients randomly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Carl Smestad , Jingyue Li

Federated Learning (FL) is a learning paradigm that protects privacy by keeping client data on edge devices. However, optimizing FL in practice can be difficult due to the diversity and heterogeneity of the learning system. Despite recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yongxin Guo , Tao Lin , Xiaoying Tang

Training large-scale machine learning models incurs substantial carbon emissions. Federated Learning (FL), by distributing computation across geographically dispersed clients, offers a natural framework to leverage regional and temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Daniel Richards Arputharaj , Charlotte Rodriguez , Angelo Rodio , Giovanni Neglia

Large language model (LLM) agents at the network edge offer low-latency execution for routine queries. In contrast, complex requests often require the superior capability of cloud models, incurring higher latency and cost. To navigate this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuxuan Chen , Rongpeng Li , Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Chenghui Peng , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) aims at unburdening the training of deep models by distributing computation across multiple devices (clients) while safeguarding data privacy. On top of that, Federated Continual Learning (FCL) also accounts for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Riccardo Salami , Pietro Buzzega , Matteo Mosconi , Mattia Verasani , Simone Calderara

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning across multiple clients. In most FL work, all clients train a single learning task. However, the recent proliferation of FL applications may increasingly require multiple FL tasks to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Marie Siew , Haoran Zhang , Jong-Ik Park , Yuezhou Liu , Yichen Ruan , Lili Su , Stratis Ioannidis , Edmund Yeh , Carlee Joe-Wong

Federated learning (FL) is the promising privacy-preserve approach to continually update the central machine learning (ML) model (e.g., object detectors in edge servers) by aggregating the gradients obtained from local observation data in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Ming Zhao , Yuru Zhang , Qiang Liu , Tao Han

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm where multiple clients conduct local training based on their private data, then the updated models are sent to a central server for global aggregation. The practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Harsh Vardhan , Xiaofan Yu , Tajana Rosing , Arya Mazumdar

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has improved the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by using rule-based binary feedback. However, current RLVR methods typically assign the same reward to every token.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Guofu Xie , Yunsheng Shi , Hongtao Tian , Ting Yao , Xiao Zhang

In multiple federated learning schemes, a random subset of clients sends in each round their model updates to the server for aggregation. Although this client selection strategy aims to reduce communication overhead, it remains energy and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Fernanda Famá , Charalampos Kalalas , Sandra Lagen , Paolo Dini

The increasing number and scale of federated learning (FL) jobs necessitates resource efficient scheduling and management of aggregation to make the economics of cloud-hosted aggregation work. Existing FL research has focused on the design…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-23 K. R. Jayaram , Ashish Verma , Gegi Thomas , Vinod Muthusamy

Large Language Models (LLMs) consistently benefit from scaled Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, but also suffer from heavy computational overhead. To address this issue, efficient reasoning aims to incentivize short yet accurate thinking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Taiqiang Wu , Zenan Xu , Bo Zhou , Ngai Wong

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities in complex problem-solving tasks, sparking growing interest in their application to preference reasoning in recommendation systems. Existing methods typically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yang Zhang , Wenxin Xu , Xiaoyan Zhao , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua