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Distributed machine learning (ML) over wireless networks hinges on accurate channel state information (CSI) and efficient exchange of high-dimensional model updates. These demands are governed by channel coherence time and bandwidth, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mehdi Karbalayghareh , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

This paper investigates the model aggregation process in an over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) system, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deployed to assist the transmission from users to the base station (BS). With the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jingheng Zheng , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian

Federated edge learning (FEEL) enables wireless devices to collaboratively train a centralised model without sharing raw data, but repeated uplink transmission of model updates makes communication the dominant bottleneck. Over-the-air (OTA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Antonio Tarizzo , Mohammad Kazemi , Deniz Gündüz

Federated Learning (FL) has attracted much interest due to the significant advantages it brings to training deep neural network (DNN) models. However, since communications and computation resources are limited, training DNN models in FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ran Greidi , Kobi Cohen

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm for training models across multiple edge devices holding local data sets, without explicitly exchanging the data. Recently, over-the-air (OTA) FL has been suggested to reduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Tomer Gafni , Kobi Cohen , Yonina C. Eldar

Federated learning (FL) as a promising edge-learning framework can effectively address the latency and privacy issues by featuring distributed learning at the devices and model aggregation in the central server. In order to enable efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Chunmei Xu , Shengheng Liu , Zhaohui Yang , Yongming Huang , Kai-Kit Wong

In this paper, we propose leveraging the active reconfigurable intelligence surface (RIS) to support reliable gradient aggregation for over-the-air computation (AirComp) enabled federated learning (FL) systems. An analysis of the FL…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , H. Vincent Poor

Over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) provides bandwidth-efficient learning by leveraging the inherent superposition property of wireless channels. Personalized federated learning balances performance for users with diverse datasets,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jiayu Mao , Aylin Yener

A hardware model for active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) is proposed consisting of reflection-type amplifiers. The amplitude gains of the STAR element are derived for both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-10 Jiaqi Xu , Jiakuo Zuo , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yuanwei Liu

We study joint downlink-uplink beamforming design for wireless federated learning (FL) with a multi-antenna base station. Considering analog transmission over noisy channels and uplink over-the-air aggregation, we derive the global model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chong Zhang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Ali Afana , Yahia Ahmed

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) is a novel technology which enables the full-space coverage. In this letter, a multi-active STAR-RIS-aided system using non-orthogonal multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Sepideh Javadi , Armin Farhadi , Mohammad Robat Mili , Eduard Jorswieck , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Over-the-air computation is a communication-efficient solution for federated learning (FL). In such a system, iterative procedure is performed: Local gradient of private loss function is updated, amplified and then transmitted by every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Rongfei Fan , Xuming An , Shiyuan Zuo , Han Hu

Federated edge learning (FEEL) enables distributed model training across wireless devices without centralising raw data, but deployment is constrained by the wireless uplink. A promising direction is over-the-air (OTA) aggregation, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Antonio Tarizzo , Mohammad Kazemi , Deniz Gündüz

Recently, Over-the-Air (OTA) computation has emerged as a promising federated learning (FL) paradigm that leverages the waveform superposition properties of the wireless channel to realize fast model updates. Prior work focused on the OTA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Muhammad Faraz Ul Abrar , Nicolò Michelusi

Over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) has emerged as an efficient mechanism that exploits the superposition property of the wireless medium and performs model aggregation for federated learning in the air. OTA-FL is naturally sensitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Jiayu Mao , Haibo Yang , Peiwen Qiu , Jia Liu , Aylin Yener

Wireless devices are expected to provide a wide range of AI services in 6G networks. The increasing computing capabilities of wireless devices and the surge of wireless data motivate the use of privacy-preserving federated learning (FL). In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Chen Chen , Emil Björnson , Carlo Fischione

Federated learning (FL) is an attractive paradigm for making use of rich distributed data while protecting data privacy. Nonetheless, nonideal communication links and limited transmission resources may hinder the implementation of fast and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Xin Fan , Yue Wang , Yan Huo , Zhi Tian

The novel active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (ASTARS) has recently received a lot of attention due to its capability to conquer the multiplicative fading loss and achieve full-space smart radio environments. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Xinwei Yue , Jin Xie , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Xia Shen , Zhiguo Ding

To efficiently exploit the massive amounts of raw data that are increasingly being generated in mobile edge networks, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed learning technique. By collaboratively training a shared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yapeng Zhao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Celimuge Wu , H. Vincent Poor

Over-the-Air Federated Learning (OTA-FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed learning mechanism, by aggregating updates in the electromagnetic channel rather than at the server. A critical research gap in existing OTA-FL research is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jinsheng Yuan , Zhuangkun Wei , Weisi Guo