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Asynchronous federated learning aims to solve the straggler problem in heterogeneous environments, i.e., clients have small computational capacities that could cause aggregation delay. The principle of asynchronous federated learning is to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Xiang Ma , Qun Wang , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

Traditional Federated Learning (FL) faces significant challenges in terms of efficiency and accuracy, particularly in heterogeneous environments where clients employ diverse model architectures and have varying computational resources. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiacheng Wang , Hongtao Lv , Lei Liu

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a widely adopted training paradigm for privacy-preserving machine learning. While the SGD-based FL algorithms have demonstrated considerable success in the past, there is a growing trend towards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yujia Wang , Shiqiang Wang , Songtao Lu , Jinghui Chen

Federated Learning (FL) is a method of training machine learning models on private data distributed over a large number of possibly heterogeneous clients such as mobile phones and IoT devices. In this work, we propose a new federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

Dynamic link prediction is important for modeling evolving interactions in complex systems, including social, communication, financial, and transportation networks. Classical temporal graph models capture sequential dependencies, but they…

Federated learning often suffers from slow and unstable convergence due to the heterogeneous characteristics of participating client datasets. Such a tendency is aggravated when the client participation ratio is low since the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Geeho Kim , Jinkyu Kim , Bohyung Han

In an asynchronous federated learning framework, the server updates the global model once it receives an update from a client instead of waiting for all the updates to arrive as in the synchronous setting. This allows heterogeneous devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Qiyuan Wang , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen

Almost all existing hierarchical federated learning (FL) models are limited to two aggregation layers, restricting scalability and flexibility in complex, large-scale networks. In this work, we propose a Multi-Layer Hierarchical Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Carlo Fischione

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning framework facilitating collaborative training across distributed clients. However, its performance is often compromised by data heterogeneity among participants, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ziru Niu , Hai Dong , A. K. Qin

Conventional federated learning (FL) assumes a closed world with a fixed total number of clients. In contrast, new clients continuously join the FL process in real-world scenarios, introducing new knowledge. This raises two critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zhengyi Zhong , Wenzheng Jiang , Weidong Bao , Ji Wang , Cheems Wang , Guanbo Wang , Yongheng Deng , Ju Ren

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed edge devices while preserving data privacy, and typically operates in a round-based synchronous manner. However, synchronous FL suffers from latency bottlenecks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Asaf Goren , Natalie Lang , Nir Shlezinger , Alejandro Cohen

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a key paradigm for collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing raw data, enabling privacy-preserving applications in areas such as radiology and pathology. However, works on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Furkan Pala , Islem Rekik

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across large-scale distributed service nodes while preserving data privacy, making it a cornerstone of intelligent service systems in edge-cloud environments. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhiwei Ling , Hailiang Zhao , Chao Zhang , Xiang Ao , Ziqi Wang , Cheng Zhang , Zhen Qin , Xinkui Zhao , Kingsum Chow , Yuanqing Wu , MengChu Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) enables large-scale distributed training of machine learning models, while still allowing individual nodes to maintain data locally. However, executing FL at scale comes with inherent practical challenges: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hossein Zakerinia , Shayan Talaei , Giorgi Nadiradze , Dan Alistarh

To address the challenges posed by the heterogeneity inherent in federated learning (FL) and to attract high-quality clients, various incentive mechanisms have been employed. However, existing incentive mechanisms are typically utilized in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Danni Yang , Yun Ji , Zhoubin Kou , Xiaoxiong Zhong , Sheng Zhang

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which incorporates the Cloud, edge nodes and end devices, has shown great potential in bringing data processing closer to the data sources. Meanwhile, Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Rui Mao

With the prevalence of Large Learning Models (LLM), Split Federated Learning (SFL), which divides a learning model into server-side and client-side models, has emerged as an appealing technology to deal with the heavy computational burden…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yipeng Liang , Qimei Chen , Guangxu Zhu , Muhammad Kaleem Awan , Hao Jiang

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) aims at optimizing a shared global model over multiple edge devices without transmitting (private) data to the central server. While it is theoretically well-known that FL yields an optimal model -- centrally trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Youngjoon Lee , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang

Federated learning (FL) can suffer from a communication bottleneck when deployed in mobile networks, limiting participating clients and deterring FL convergence. The impact of practical air interfaces with discrete modulations on FL has not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Shuyan Hu , Xin Yuan , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Ekram Hossain , H. Vincent Poor