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Federated learning (FL) enables collaboratively training a model while keeping the training data decentralized and private. However, one significant impediment to training a model using FL, especially large models, is the resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Seyed Mahmoud Sajjadi Mohammadabadi , Syed Zawad , Feng Yan , Lei Yang

Federated learning (FL) is a useful tool in distributed machine learning that utilizes users' local datasets in a privacy-preserving manner. When deploying FL in a constrained wireless environment; however, training models in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Jake Perazzone , Shiqiang Wang , Mingyue Ji , Kevin Chan

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training across distributed clients while ensuring data privacy. Traditionally, FL relies on a centralized server to coordinate learning, which creates bottlenecks and a single point…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Phani Sahasra Akkinepally , Manaswini Piduguralla , Sushant Joshi , Sathya Peri , Sandeep Kulkarni

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is a variant of federated learning, where edge nodes only communicate with their one-hop neighbors to learn the optimal model. However, as information exchange is restricted in a range of one-hop in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Li Chen , Wei Liu , Yunfei Chen , Weidong Wang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for decentralized machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across diverse clients without sharing raw data. However, traditional FL approaches often face limitations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ali Forootani , Raffaele Iervolino

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm that allows to accomplish model training without aggregating data at a central server. Most studies on FL consider a centralized framework, in which a single server is endowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Bin Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Xiaojun Yuan , Qing Ling

The emerging machine learning paradigm of decentralized federated learning (DFL) has the promise of greatly boosting the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) by directly learning across distributed agents without centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yudi Huang , Tingyang Sun , Ting He

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is a promising machine learning paradigm for bringing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the network edge. Running DFL on top of edge networks, however, faces severe performance challenges…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Tingyang Sun , Tuan Nguyen , Ting He

In Federated Learning (FL), with parameter aggregated by a central node, the communication overhead is a substantial concern. To circumvent this limitation and alleviate the single point of failure within the FL framework, recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhigang Yan , Dong Li

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a global model whose performance is boosted by private data owned by distributed clients, without compromising data privacy. Yet the wide applicability of FL is hindered by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xinyuan Zhao , Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Yuxing Han , Qiang Yang

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

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative approach for enabling distributed machine learning while preserving user privacy, yet it faces challenges like communication inefficiencies and reliance on centralized infrastructures,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Sai Puppala , Ismail Hossain , Md Jahangir Alam , Sajedul Talukder , Zahidur Talukder , Syed Bahauddin

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has emerged as a robust distributed paradigm that circumvents the single-point-of-failure and communication bottleneck risks of centralized architectures. However, a significant challenge arises as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Lianshuai Guo , Zhongzheng Yuan , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Meixia Qu , Wenyu Wang

Federated Learning is an algorithm suited for training models on decentralized data, but the requirement of a central "server" node is a bottleneck. In this document, we first introduce the notion of Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Zhuofan Zhang , Mi Zhou , Kaicheng Niu , Chaouki Abdallah

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative learning without directly sharing individual's raw data. FL can be implemented in either a centralized (server-based) or decentralized (peer-to-peer) manner. In this survey, we present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Qiongxiu Li , Wenrui Yu , Yufei Xia , Jun Pang

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

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is an emerging paradigm to enable edge devices collaboratively training a learning model using a device-to-device (D2D) communication manner without the coordination of a parameter server (PS).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang , Geoffrey Ye Li

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) trains models in a collaborative and privacy-preserving manner while removing model centralization risks and improving communication bottlenecks. However, DFL faces challenges in efficient…

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) uses peer-to-peer communication to avoid the single point of failure problem in federated learning and has been considered an attractive solution for machine learning tasks on distributed devices. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yifan Hua , Jinlong Pang , Xiaoxue Zhang , Yi Liu , Xiaofeng Shi , Bao Wang , Yang Liu , Chen Qian

Federated learning (FL) can lead to significant communication overhead and reliance on a central server. To address these challenges, decentralized federated learning (DFL) has been proposed as a more resilient framework. DFL involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhigang Yan , Dong Li