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This paper considers a general data-fitting problem over a networked system, in which many computing nodes are connected by an undirected graph. This kind of problem can find many real-world applications and has been studied extensively in…

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Decentralized Federated Graph Learning (DFGL) overcomes potential bottlenecks of the parameter server in FGL by establishing a peer-to-peer (P2P) communication network among workers. However, while extensive cross-worker communication of…

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Federated learning (FL) has been proposed to enable distributed learning on Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things (AIoT) devices with guarantees of high-level data privacy. Since random initial models in FL can easily result in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Pengyu Zhang , Yingbo Zhou , Ming Hu , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

Graph Federated Learning (GFL) enables distributed graph representation learning while protecting the privacy of graph data. However, GFL suffers from heterogeneity arising from diverse node features and structural topologies across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Wentao Yu , Sheng Wan , Shuo Chen , Bo Han , Chen Gong

Federated learning (FL) has achieved great success as a privacy-preserving distributed training paradigm, where many edge devices collaboratively train a machine learning model by sharing the model updates instead of the raw data with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yuchang Sun , Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Songze Li , Jun Zhang

Distributed Federated Learning (DFL) enables decentralized model training across large-scale systems without a central parameter server. However, DFL faces three critical challenges: privacy leakage from honest-but-curious neighbors, slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nuocheng Yang , Sihua Wang , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin , Kaibin Huang

One of many impediments to applying graph neural networks (GNNs) to large-scale real-world graph data is the challenge of centralized training, which requires aggregating data from different organizations, raising privacy concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ruiyu Li , Peige Zhao , Guangxia Li , Pengcheng Wu , Xingyu Gao , Zhiqiang Xu

Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, in practical deployments, device heterogeneity, non-independent, and identically distributed (Non-IID) data often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jin Wang , Hui Ma , Fei Xing , Ming Yan

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving and distributed training method using heterogeneous data sets stored at local devices. Federated learning over wireless networks requires aggregating locally computed gradients at a server where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Seunghoon Lee , Chanho Park , Song-Nam Hong , Yonina C. Eldar , Namyoon Lee

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm that enables collaborative learning across clients without sharing local data, thereby preserving privacy. However, the increasing scale and complexity of modern deep models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Honggu Kang , Seohyeon Cha , Joonhyuk Kang

In this work, we study the classical distributed optimization problem over digraphs, where the objective function is a sum of smooth local functions. Inspired by the implicit tracking mechanism proposed in our earlier work, we develop a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Jingwang Li , Housheng Su

Federated learning (FL), as a collaborative distributed training paradigm with several edge computing devices under the coordination of a centralized server, is plagued by inconsistent local stationary points due to the heterogeneity of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Yixing Liu , Yan Sun , Zhengtao Ding , Li Shen , Bo Liu , Dacheng Tao

Federated learning (FL) aims to train machine learning (ML) models collaboratively using decentralized data, bypassing the need for centralized data aggregation. Standard FL models often assume that all data come from the same unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Wen Bai , Yi Wong , Xiao Qiao , Chin Pang Ho

We introduce Ring-topology Decentralized Federated Learning (RDFL) for distributed model training, aiming to avoid the inherent risks of centralized failure in server-based FL. However, RDFL faces the challenge of low information-sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Shunxin Guo , Jiaqi Lv , Xin Geng

Federated graph learning (FGL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train powerful graph neural networks without sharing their private, decentralized graph data. Inherited from generic federated learning, FGL is critically challenged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xinrui Li , Qilin Fan , Tianfu Wang , Kaiwen Wei , Ke Yu , Xu Zhang

As distributed learning applications such as Federated Learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Edge Computing grow, it is critical to address the shortcomings of such technologies from a theoretical perspective. As an abstraction, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Sajjad Ghiasvand , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has generated vast amounts of data, leading to the emergence of federated learning as a novel distributed machine learning paradigm. Federated learning enables model training at the edge,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Abdelaziz Salama , Achilleas Stergioulis , Syed Ali Zaidi , Des McLernon

Decentralized learning offers privacy and communication efficiency when data are naturally distributed among agents communicating over an underlying graph. Motivated by overparameterized learning settings, in which models are trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hossein Taheri , Christos Thrampoulidis

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) is an emerging paradigm that enables collaborative model training without centralized data and model aggregation, enhancing privacy and resilience. However, its sustainability remains underexplored, as…

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