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Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables edge devices to collaboratively train models through local training and fully decentralized device-to-device (D2D) model exchanges. However, these energy-intensive operations often rapidly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kai Zhang , Xuanyu Cao , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated Learning (FL) trains a shared model using data and computation power on distributed agents coordinated by a central server. Decentralized FL (DFL) utilizes local model exchange and aggregation between agents to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Xiaoyu Wang , Guojun Xiong , Houwei Cao , Jian Li , Yong Liu

As a promising distributed machine learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) enables all the involved devices to train a global model collaboratively without exposing their local data privacy. However, for non-IID scenarios, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ming Hu , Tian Liu , Zhiwei Ling , Zhihao Yue , Mingsong Chen

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique that enables a large amount of edge computing devices to collaboratively train a global learning model. Due to privacy concerns, the raw data on devices could not be available for centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Miao Yang , Akitanoshou Wong , Hongbin Zhu , Haifeng Wang , Hua Qian

Data generated at the network edge can be processed locally by leveraging the paradigm of edge computing (EC). Aided by EC, decentralized federated learning (DFL), which overcomes the single-point-of-failure problem in the parameter server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yunming Liao , Yang Xu , Hongli Xu , Lun Wang , Chen Qian

In this paper, we investigate the problem of decentralized federated learning (DFL) in Internet of things (IoT) systems, where a number of IoT clients train models collectively for a common task without sharing their private training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Chengxi Li , Gang Li , Pramod K. Varshney

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative training among users without relying on a central server. However, its performance often degrades significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Reza Jahani , Md Farhamdur Reza , Richeng Jin , Huaiyu Dai

Federated Learning (FL) is the most widely adopted collaborative learning approach for training decentralized Machine Learning (ML) models by exchanging learning between clients without sharing the data and compromising privacy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Madapu Amarlingam , Abhishek Wani , Adarsh NL

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine-learning approach enabling collaborative model training across multiple decentralized edge devices that hold local data samples, all without exchanging these samples. This collaborative process occurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Venkataraman Natarajan Iyer

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning technique that maintains data privacy by providing a decentralized training method for machine learning models using distributed big data. This promising Federated Learning approach has also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Prakash Chourasia , Tamkanat E Ali , Sarwan Ali , Murray Pattersn

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative approach for enabling distributed machine learning while preserving user privacy, yet it faces challenges like communication inefficiencies and reliance on centralized infrastructures,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Sai Puppala , Ismail Hossain , Md Jahangir Alam , Sajedul Talukder , Zahidur Talukder , Syed Bahauddin

Federated learning (FL) refers to a distributed machine learning framework involving learning from several decentralized edge clients without sharing local dataset. This distributed strategy prevents data leakage and enables on-device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Taki Hasan Rafi , Faiza Anan Noor , Tahmid Hussain , Dong-Kyu Chae , Zhaohui Yang

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm through centralized model aggregation. However, standard federated learning relies on a centralized server, making it vulnerable to server failures. While existing solutions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hongliang Zhang , Fenghua Xu , Zhongyuan Yu , Shanchen Pang , Chunqiang Hu , Jiguo Yu

This work tackles the challenges of data heterogeneity and communication limitations in decentralized federated learning. We focus on creating a collaboration graph that guides each client in selecting suitable collaborators for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Salma Kharrat , Marco Canini , Samuel Horvath

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging promising paradigm of privacy-preserving machine learning (ML). An important type of FL is cross-silo FL, which enables a small scale of organizations to cooperatively train a shared model by keeping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jialiang Han , Yudong Han , Gang Huang , Yun Ma

In recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has gained relevance in training collaborative models without sharing sensitive data. Since its birth, Centralized FL (CFL) has been the most common approach in the literature, where a central entity…

This paper studies decentralized federated learning algorithms in wireless IoT networks. The traditional parameter server architecture for federated learning faces some problems such as low fault tolerance, large communication overhead and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shuzhen Chen , Dongxiao Yu , Yifei Zou , Jiguo Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng

The future of machine learning lies in moving data collection along with training to the edge. Federated Learning, for short FL, has been recently proposed to achieve this goal. The principle of this approach is to aggregate models learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Adnan Ben Mansour , Gaia Carenini , Alexandre Duplessis

Federated learning (FL) is a popular technique for distributing machine learning (ML) across a set of edge devices. In this paper, we study fully decentralized FL, where in addition to devices conducting training locally, they carry out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Shahryar Zehtabi , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

In the realm of real-world devices, centralized servers in Federated Learning (FL) present challenges including communication bottlenecks and susceptibility to a single point of failure. Additionally, contemporary devices inherently exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yasser H. Khalil , Amir H. Estiri , Mahdi Beitollahi , Nader Asadi , Sobhan Hemati , Xu Li , Guojun Zhang , Xi Chen