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Federated Learning (FL), Split Learning (SL), and SplitFed Learning (SFL) are three recent developments in distributed machine learning that are gaining attention due to their ability to preserve the privacy of raw data. Thus, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Praveen Joshi , Chandra Thapa , Seyit Camtepe , Mohammed Hasanuzzamana , Ted Scully , Haithem Afli

SplitFed Learning (SFL) combines federated learning and split learning to enable collaborative training across distributed edge devices; however, it faces significant challenges in heterogeneous environments with diverse computational and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Abdullah Al Asif , Sixing Yu , Juan Pablo Munoz , Arya Mazaheri , Ali Jannesari

Federated learning (FL) is one of the popular distributed machine learning (ML) solutions but incurs significant communication and computation costs at edge devices. Federated split learning (FSL) can train sub-models in parallel and reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yujia Mu , Cong Shen

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed model training on edge devices while preserving data privacy. However, FL deployments in wireless networks face significant challenges, including communication overhead, unreliable connectivity,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Abdelaziz Salama , Mohammed M. H. Qazzaz , Syed Danial Ali Shah , Maryam Hafeez , Syed Ali Zaidi , Hamed Ahmadi

Fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) in a distributed manner poses significant challenges on resource-constrained edge networks. To address this challenge, we propose SflLLM, a novel framework that integrates split federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kai Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Ye Hu , Mingzhe Chen , Chen Zhu , Zhaoyang Zhang

To enable training of large artificial intelligence (AI) models at the network edge, split federated learning (SFL) has emerged as a promising approach by distributing computation between edge devices and a server. However, while unstable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wei Wei , Zheng Lin , Xihui Liu , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Xianhao Chen

Under the organization of the base station (BS), wireless federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among multiple devices. However, the BS is merely responsible for aggregating local updates during the training process,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jingheng Zheng , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Deniz Gunduz , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zhu Han

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

Can we find a network architecture for ML model training so as to optimize training loss (and thus, accuracy) in Split Federated Learning (SFL)? And can this architecture also reduce training delay and communication overhead? While accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yiannis Papageorgiou , Yannis Thomas , Ramin Khalili , Iordanis Koutsopoulos

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients (e.g., edge devices) without sharing raw data. Yet, FL can be computationally expensive as the clients need to train the entire model multiple times.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Chao Huang , Geng Tian , Ming Tang

To leverage massive distributed data and computation resources, machine learning in the network edge is considered to be a promising technique especially for large-scale model training. Federated learning (FL), as a paradigm of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Hao Chen , Shaocheng Huang , Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , H. Vincent Poor

Federated learning (FL) provides a distributed learning framework for multiple participants to collaborate learning without sharing raw data. In many practical FL scenarios, participants have heterogeneous resources due to disparities in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Junyuan Hong , Haotao Wang , Zhangyang Wang , Jiayu Zhou

Federated learning (FL) and split learning (SL) are two effective distributed learning paradigms in wireless networks, enabling collaborative model training across mobile devices without sharing raw data. While FL supports low-latency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Kun Guo , Xuefei Li , Xijun Wang , Howard H. Yang , Wei Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper proposes a novel communication-efficient split learning (SL) framework, named SplitFC, which reduces the communication overhead required for transmitting intermediate feature and gradient vectors during the SL training process.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yongjeong Oh , Jaeho Lee , Christopher G. Brinton , Yo-Seb Jeon

Split Federated Learning (SFL) enables scalable training on edge devices by combining the parallelism of Federated Learning (FL) with the computational offloading of Split Learning (SL). Despite its great success, SFL suffers significantly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Dandan Liang , Jianing Zhang , Evan Chen , Zhe Li , Rui Li , Haibo Yang

While federated learning (FL) is a widely popular distributed machine learning (ML) strategy that protects data privacy, time-varying wireless network parameters and heterogeneous configurations of the wireless devices pose significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Ferdous Pervej , Minseok Choi , Andreas F. Molisch

U-shaped networks are widely used in various medical image tasks, such as segmentation, restoration and reconstruction, but most of them usually rely on centralized learning and thus ignore privacy issues. To address the privacy concerns,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Ziyuan Yang , Yingyu Chen , Huijie Huangfu , Maosong Ran , Hui Wang , Xiaoxiao Li , Yi Zhang

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

Deploying large Transformer-based vision models on resource-limited mobile devices at network edge is severely constrained by hardware limitations and dynamic wireless environments. While federated learning (FL) enables collaborative…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xianke Qiang , Zheng Chang , Geyong Min

As AI models expand in size, it has become increasingly challenging to deploy federated learning (FL) on resource-constrained edge devices. To tackle this issue, split federated learning (SFL) has emerged as an FL framework with reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zheng Lin , Wei Wei , Zhe Chen , Chan-Tong Lam , Xianhao Chen , Yue Gao , Jun Luo