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Federated learning is a rapidly-growing area of research which enables a large number of clients to jointly train a machine learning model on privately-held data. One of the largest barriers to wider adoption of federated learning is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Franklyn Wang

Federated learning enables a population of clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without exchanging their raw data, but standard algorithms such as FedAvg suffer from slow convergence and high communication and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yutong He , Zhengyang Huang , Jiahe Geng

Communication overhead is a known bottleneck in federated learning (FL). To address this, lossy compression is commonly used on the information communicated between the server and clients during training. In horizontal FL, where each client…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Pedro Valdeira , João Xavier , Cláudia Soares , Yuejie Chi

Data parallelism can boost the training speed of convolutional neural networks (CNN), but could suffer from significant communication costs caused by gradient aggregation. To alleviate this problem, several scalar quantization techniques…

Federated Composite Optimization (FCO) has emerged as a promising framework for training models with structural constraints (e.g., sparsity) in distributed edge networks. However, simultaneously achieving communication efficiency and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Pu Qiu , Chen Ouyang , Yongyang Xiong , Keyou You , Wanquan Liu , Yang Shi

Federated learning (FL) enables the training of a model leveraging decentralized data in client sites while preserving privacy by not collecting data. However, one of the significant challenges of FL is limited computation and low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Riyasat Ohib , Bishal Thapaliya , Pratyush Gaggenapalli , Jingyu Liu , Vince Calhoun , Sergey Plis

Communication compression techniques are of growing interests for solving the decentralized optimization problem under limited communication, where the global objective is to minimize the average of local cost functions over a multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Yiwei Liao , Zhuorui Li , Kun Huang , Shi Pu

Federated learning is a machine learning training paradigm that enables clients to jointly train models without sharing their own localized data. However, the implementation of federated learning in practice still faces numerous challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yujia Wang , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

Training large neural networks is time consuming. To speed up the process, distributed training is often used. One of the largest bottlenecks in distributed training is communicating gradients across different nodes. Different gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 William Zou , Hans De Sterck , Jun Liu

Federated Learning is a machine learning setting where the goal is to train a high-quality centralized model while training data remains distributed over a large number of clients each with unreliable and relatively slow network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Jakub Konečný , H. Brendan McMahan , Felix X. Yu , Peter Richtárik , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Dave Bacon

Federated Learning (FL) enables participant devices to collaboratively train deep learning models without sharing their data with the server or other devices, effectively addressing data privacy and computational concerns. However, FL faces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Asadullah Tariq , Tariq Qayyum , Mohamed Adel Serhani , Farag Sallabi , Ikbal Taleb , Ezedin S. Barka

Federated Knowledge Graphs Embedding learning (FKGE) encounters challenges in communication efficiency stemming from the considerable size of parameters and extensive communication rounds. However, existing FKGE methods only focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xiaoxiong Zhang , Zhiwei Zeng , Xin Zhou , Dusit Niyato , Zhiqi Shen

The performance and efficiency of distributed training of Deep Neural Networks highly depend on the performance of gradient averaging among all participating nodes, which is bounded by the communication between nodes. There are two major…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Linnan Wang , Wei Wu , Junyu Zhang , Hang Liu , George Bosilca , Maurice Herlihy , Rodrigo Fonseca

In the recent paper FLECS (Agafonov et al, FLECS: A Federated Learning Second-Order Framework via Compression and Sketching), the second-order framework FLECS was proposed for the Federated Learning problem. This method utilize compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Artem Agafonov , Brahim Erraji , Martin Takáč

Distributed data-parallel (DDP) training improves overall application throughput as multiple devices train on a subset of data and aggregate updates to produce a globally shared model. The periodic synchronization at each iteration incurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Sahil Tyagi , Martin Swany

Due to the explosion in the size of the training datasets, distributed learning has received growing interest in recent years. One of the major bottlenecks is the large communication cost between the central server and the local workers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Yujia Wang , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising technique for the collaborative training of deep neural networks across multiple devices while preserving data privacy. Despite its potential benefits, FL is hindered by excessive communication costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Vasileios Tsouvalas , Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi , Nirvana Meratnia

Federated learning can enable remote workers to collaboratively train a shared machine learning model while allowing training data to be kept locally. In the use case of wireless mobile devices, the communication overhead is a critical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Kai Yue , Richeng Jin , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Communication compression techniques are of growing interests for solving the decentralized optimization problem under limited communication, where the global objective is to minimize the average of local cost functions over a multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Yiwei Liao , Zhuorui Li , Kun Huang , Shi Pu

Federated learning has emerged in the last decade as a distributed optimization paradigm due to the rapidly increasing number of portable devices able to support the heavy computational needs related to the training of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Emanuel Buttaci , Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore