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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning method that can be applied in mobile edge systems, in which a server and a host of clients collaboratively train a statistical model utilizing the data and computation resources of the…

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Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is an emerging paradigm to enable edge devices collaboratively training a learning model using a device-to-device (D2D) communication manner without the coordination of a parameter server (PS).…

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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…

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In Federated Learning (FL), with parameter aggregated by a central node, the communication overhead is a substantial concern. To circumvent this limitation and alleviate the single point of failure within the FL framework, recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhigang Yan , Dong Li

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is a collaborative machine learning framework for training a model across participants without a central server or raw data exchange. DFL faces challenges due to statistical heterogeneity, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Gabriel Thompson , Kai Yue , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across multiple clients while optionally preserving data privacy. However, communication efficiency remains a critical bottleneck, particularly for large-scale models. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arnaud Descours , Léonard Deroose , Jan Ramon

Federated learning (FL) has been gaining attention for its ability to share knowledge while maintaining user data, protecting privacy, increasing learning efficiency, and reducing communication overhead. Decentralized FL (DFL) is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Liangqi Yuan , Ziran Wang , Lichao Sun , Philip S. Yu , Christopher G. Brinton

In decentralized optimization, $m$ agents form a network and only communicate with their neighbors, which gives advantages in data ownership, privacy, and scalability. At the same time, decentralized stochastic gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Haishan Ye , Xiangyu Chang

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has demonstrated the advantage of training a global Graph Neural Network (GNN) model across distributed clients using their local graph data. Unlike Euclidean data (\eg, images), graph data is composed of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xianjun Gao , Jianchun Liu , Hongli Xu , Shilong Wang , Liusheng Huang

Federated learning (FL) provides a communication-efficient approach to solve machine learning problems concerning distributed data, without sending raw data to a central server. However, existing works on FL only utilize first-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Wei Liu , Li Chen , Yunfei Chen , Wenyi Zhang

Heterogeneous federated learning (HFL) aims to ensure effective and privacy-preserving collaboration among different entities. As newly joined clients require significant adjustments and additional training to align with the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kaile Wang , Jiannong Cao , Yu Yang , Xiaoyin Li , Mingjin Zhang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a crucial distributed training paradigm, enabling discrete devices to collaboratively train a shared model under the coordination of a central server, while leveraging their locally stored private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang

Graph-based semi-supervised node classification (GraphSSC) has wide applications, ranging from networking and security to data mining and machine learning, etc. However, existing centralized GraphSSC methods are impractical to solve many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Binghui Wang , Ang Li , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Distributed machine learning has been widely studied in the literature to scale up machine learning model training in the presence of an ever-increasing amount of data. We study distributed machine learning from another perspective, where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Yaochen Hu , Di Niu , Jianming Yang , Shengping Zhou

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

In decentralized federated learning (DFL), substantial traffic from frequent inter-node communication and non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data challenges high-accuracy model acquisition. We propose Tram-FL, a novel DFL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kota Maejima , Takayuki Nishio , Asato Yamazaki , Yuko Hara-Azumi

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that permits a large number of clients with heterogeneous data to coordinate learning of a unified global model without the need to share data amongst each other. A major challenge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Irene Tenison , Sai Aravind Sreeramadas , Vaikkunth Mugunthan , Edouard Oyallon , Irina Rish , Eugene Belilovsky

Recently, federated learning (FL) has received intensive research because of its ability in preserving data privacy for scattered clients to collaboratively train machine learning models. Commonly, a parameter server (PS) is deployed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Dongyuan Su , Yipeng Zhou , Laizhong Cui