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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in tasks like multimodal reasoning and cross-modal retrieval but face deployment challenges in real-world scenarios due to distributed multimodal data and strict privacy requirements. Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yao Zhang , Hewei Gao , Haokun Chen , Weiguo Li , Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients cooperatively train models without disclosing local data. However, the existing works fail to address all these practical concerns in FL: limited communication resources, dynamic network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhida Jiang , Yang Xu , Hongli Xu , Zhiyuan Wang , Chen Qian

While large pre-trained models have achieved impressive performance across AI tasks, their deployment in privacy-sensitive and distributed environments remains challenging. Federated learning (FL) offers a viable solution by enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ruofan Jia , Weiying Xie , Jie Lei , Jitao Ma , Haonan Qin , Leyuan Fang

Large language models (LLMs) have not yet effectively leveraged the vast amounts of edge-device data, and federated learning (FL) offers a promising paradigm to collaboratively fine-tune LLMs without transferring private edge data to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Arian Raje , Baris Askin , Divyansh Jhunjhunwala , Gauri Joshi

Federated Learning (FL) is an established paradigm for training deep learning models on decentralized data. However, as the size of the models grows, conventional FL approaches often require significant computational resources on client…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Matteo Caligiuri , Francesco Barbato , Donald Shenaj , Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as important components across various fields, yet their training requires substantial computation resources and abundant labeled data. It poses a challenge to robustly training LLMs for individual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jiaxing QI , Zhongzhi Luan , Shaohan Huang , Carol Fung , Hailong Yang , Depei Qian

Existing approaches in Federated Learning (FL) mainly focus on sending model parameters or gradients from clients to a server. However, these methods are plagued by significant inefficiency, privacy, and security concerns. Thanks to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jie Zhang , Xiaohua Qi , Bo Zhao

Traditional federated learning (FL) methods have limited support for clients with varying computational and communication abilities, leading to inefficiencies and potential inaccuracies in model training. This limitation hinders the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jong-Ik Park , Carlee Joe-Wong

This paper introduces a novel federated learning framework termed LoRa-FL designed for training low-rank one-shot image detection models deployed on edge devices. By incorporating low-rank adaptation techniques into one-shot detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Abdul Hannaan , Zubair Shah , Aiman Erbad , Amr Mohamed , Ali Safa

Generative models trained on multi-institutional datasets can provide an enriched understanding through diverse data distributions. However, training the models on medical images is often challenging due to hospitals' reluctance to share…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Minjun Kim , Minjee Kim , Jinhoon Jeong

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), which introduces a product of two trainable low-rank matrices into frozen pre-trained weights, is widely used for efficient fine-tuning of language models in federated learning (FL). However, when combined with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Seanie Lee , Sangwoo Park , Dong Bok Lee , Dominik Wagner , Haebin Seong , Tobias Bocklet , Juho Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a shared global model without exposing clients' private data. In practical FL systems, clients (e.g., edge servers, smartphones, and wearables) typically have disparate system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Leming Shen , Qiang Yang , Kaiyan Cui , Yuanqing Zheng , Xiao-Yong Wei , Jianwei Liu , Jinsong Han

This paper addresses the critical challenges of communication overhead, data heterogeneity, and privacy in deep learning for channel state information (CSI) feedback in massive MIMO systems. To this end, we propose Fed-PELAD, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yixiang Zhou , Tong Wu , Meixia Tao , Jianhua Mo

A key challenge in federated learning (FL) is the statistical heterogeneity that impairs the generalization of the global model on each client. To address this, we propose a method Federated learning with Adaptive Local Aggregation (FedALA)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jianqing Zhang , Yang Hua , Hao Wang , Tao Song , Zhengui Xue , Ruhui Ma , Haibing Guan

Federated Learning (FL) offers a collaborative training framework, allowing multiple clients to contribute to a shared model without compromising data privacy. Due to the heterogeneous nature of local datasets, updated client models may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Chia-Hsiang Kao , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) in federated settings enables privacy-preserving adaptation but suffers from cross-client interference due to model aggregation. Existing federated LoRA fine-tuning methods, primarily based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jieming Bian , Lei Wang , Letian Zhang , Jie Xu

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed machine learning framework that enables geographically discrete clients to train a global model collaboratively while preserving their privacy-sensitive data. However, due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Shensheng Zheng , Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang , Lingjie Duan

The paper studies a fundamental federated learning (FL) problem involving multiple clients with heterogeneous constrained resources. Compared with the numerous training parameters, the computing and communication resources of clients are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ruirui Zhang , Xingze Wu , Yifei Zou , Zhenzhen Xie , Peng Li , Xiuzhen Cheng , Dongxiao Yu

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems have been shown to be effective in addressing many of the drawbacks of relying solely on the parametric memory of large language models. Recent work has demonstrated that RAG systems can be…

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a popular technique for efficient fine-tuning of foundation models. However, applying LoRA in federated learning environments, where data is distributed across multiple clients, presents unique challenges.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Raghav Singhal , Kaustubh Ponkshe , Praneeth Vepakomma