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Traditional federated learning (FL) frameworks rely heavily on terrestrial networks, where coverage limitations and increasing bandwidth congestion significantly hinder model convergence. Fortunately, the advancement of low-Earth orbit…

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We investigate the application of Federated Learning (FL) for ship detection across diverse satellite datasets, offering a privacy-preserving solution that eliminates the need for data sharing or centralized collection. This approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tran-Vu La , Minh-Tan Pham , Yu Li , Patrick Matgen , Marco Chini

Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are emerging as a core component of future 6G communication systems, providing global connectivity and supporting data-intensive applications. In this paper, we propose a distributed hierarchical federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Amin Farajzadeh , Animesh Yadav , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of mobile devices to collaboratively learn a model under the coordination of a central server without sharing their raw data. Despite its practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Bing Luo , Xiang Li , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Federated learning (FL) is a popular framework for training an AI model using distributed mobile data in a wireless network. It features data parallelism by distributing the learning task to multiple edge devices while attempting to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Dingzhu Wen , Ki-Jun Jeon , Kaibin Huang

Federated Learning (FL) allows edge devices to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping their training data on the device, thereby decoupling the ability to do machine learning from the need to store data in the cloud.…

Satellite constellations are transforming space systems from isolated spacecraft into networked, software-defined platforms capable of on-orbit perception, decision making, and adaptation. Yet much of the existing AI studies remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ziyang Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a key paradigm for distributed model learning across decentralized data sources. Communication in each FL round typically consists of two phases: (i) distributing the global model from a server to clients, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yi Zhao , Di Yuan , Tao Deng , Suzhi Cao , Ying Dong

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning paradigm that operates at the wireless edge. It enables clients to collaborate on model training while keeping their data private from adversaries and the central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Wayne Lemieux , Raphael Pinard , Mitra Hassani

Low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations violate core assumptions of standard (quantum) federated learning (FL): client-server connectivity is intermittent, participation is time varying, and latency budgets are strict. We present sat-QFL, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning technique that enables multiple entities to collaboratively learn a shared model without exchanging their local data. Over the past decade, FL systems have achieved substantial progress, scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Katharine Daly , Hubert Eichner , Peter Kairouz , H. Brendan McMahan , Daniel Ramage , Zheng Xu

The explosive growth of smart devices (e.g., mobile phones, vehicles, drones) with sensing, communication, and computation capabilities gives rise to an unprecedented amount of data. The generated massive data together with the rapid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Haibo Zhou , Jingjing Wang , Liqun Fu , Yang Yang

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables a large number of devices to collaboratively learn a model without sharing their raw data. Despite its practical efficiency and effectiveness, the iterative on-device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Bing Luo , Xiang Li , Shiqiang Wang , Jianwei Huang , Leandros Tassiulas

Accurate identification of deforestation from satellite images is essential in order to understand the geographical situation of an area. This paper introduces a new distributed approach to identify as well as locate deforestation across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuvraj Dutta , Aaditya Sikder , Basabdatta Palit

Federated Learning (FL) has been becoming a popular interdisciplinary research area in both applied mathematics and information sciences. Mathematically, FL aims to collaboratively optimize aggregate objective functions over distributed…

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Satellite technologies have advanced drastically in recent years, leading to a heated interest in launching small satellites into low Earth orbit (LEOs) to collect massive data such as satellite imagery. Downloading these data to a ground…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Mohamed Elmahallawy , Tie Luo , Mohamed I. Ibrahem

The IoT ecosystem is able to leverage vast amounts of data for intelligent decision-making. Federated Learning (FL), a decentralized machine learning technique, is widely used to collect and train machine learning models from a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Ishmeet Kaur andAdwaita Janardhan Jadhav

Federated learning (FL) has become a transformative paradigm for distributed machine learning across wireless networks. However, the performance of FL is often hindered by the unreliable communication links between resource-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Gui Gui , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

Federated learning (FL), as an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm, allows a mass of edge devices to collaboratively train a global model while preserving privacy. In this tutorial, we focus on FL via over-the-air computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jingyang Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated learning (FL) leverages data distributed at the edge of the network to enable intelligent applications. The efficiency of FL can be improved by using over-the-air computation (AirComp) technology in the process of gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Fan Zhang , Jining Chen , Kunlun Wang , Wen Chen