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Large-scale federated learning (FL) over wireless multiple access channels (MACs) has emerged as a crucial learning paradigm with a wide range of applications. However, its widespread adoption is hindered by several major challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Vineet Sunil Gattani , Junshan Zhang , Gautam Dasarathy

In this paper, the performance optimization of federated learning (FL), when deployed over a realistic wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with digital modulation and over-the-air computation (AirComp) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Cong Shen , Changchuan Yin , Christopher G. Brinton

In this letter, we introduce over-the-air computation into the communication design of federated multi-task learning (FMTL), and propose an over-the-air federated multi-task learning (OA-FMTL) framework, where multiple learning tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Haoming Ma , Xiaojun Yuan , Dian Fan , Zhi Ding , Xin Wang , Jun Fang

Federated learning (FL) over wireless networks is fundamentally constrained by unreliable communication links, particularly when uplink channels suffer from blockage, fading, or weak line-of-sight (LoS) conditions. Pinching-antenna systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Saba Asaad , Hina Tabassum , Ping Wang

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising learning paradigm in which only local model parameters (gradients) are shared. Private user data never leaves the local devices thus preserving data privacy. However, recent research has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Xiaochan Xue , Moh Khalid Hasan , Shucheng Yu , Laxima Niure Kandel , Min Song

Federated learning (FL) is a promising technique that enables many edge devices to train a machine learning model collaboratively in wireless networks. By exploiting the superposition nature of wireless waveforms, over-the-air computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Naifu Zhang , Meixia Tao

Federated learning (FL) is a new paradigm to train AI models over distributed edge devices (i.e., workers) using their local data, while confronting various challenges including communication resource constraints, edge heterogeneity and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Qianpiao Ma , Junlong Zhou , Xiangpeng Hou , Jianchun Liu , Hongli Xu , Jianeng Miao , Qingmin Jia

Over-the-air (OTA) federated learning (FL) effectively utilizes communication bandwidth, yet it is vulnerable to errors during analog aggregation. While removing users with unfavorable channel conditions can mitigate these errors, it also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yang Zhao , Minrui Xu , Ping Wang , Dusit Niyato

A new machine learning (ML) technique termed as federated learning (FL) aims to preserve data at the edge devices and to only exchange ML model parameters in the learning process. FL not only reduces the communication needs but also helps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Xiang Ma , Haijian Sun , Qun Wang , Rose Qingyang Hu

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that preserves privacy by eliminating the need to exchange raw data during training. In its prototypical edge instantiation with underlying wireless transmissions enabled by analog…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Hao Liang , Haifeng Wen , Kaishun Wu , Hong Xing

In this study, we propose an over-the-air computation (AirComp) scheme for federated edge learning (FEEL) without channel state information (CSI) at the edge devices (EDs) or the edge server (ES). The proposed scheme relies on non-coherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Alphan Sahin , Bryson Everette , Safi Shams Muhtasimul Hoque

In federated learning (FL), reducing the communication overhead is one of the most critical challenges since the parameter server and the mobile devices share the training parameters over wireless links. With such consideration, we adopt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Richeng Jin , Xiaofan He , Huaiyu Dai

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technology for next-generation AI systems that allows a number of workers, i.e., edge devices, collaboratively learn a shared global model while keeping their data locally to prevent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Pinyarash Pinyoanuntapong , Prabhu Janakaraj , Ravikumar Balakrishnan , Minwoo Lee , Chen Chen , Pu Wang

In this paper, we consider decentralized federated learning (FL) over wireless networks, where over-the-air computation (AirComp) is adopted to facilitate the local model consensus in a device-to-device (D2D) communication manner. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yandong Shi , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

Federated learning (FL) enables on-device training over distributed networks consisting of a massive amount of modern smart devices, such as smartphones and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. However, the leading optimization algorithm in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xin Yao , Tianchi Huang , Chenglei Wu , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Lifeng Sun

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

Over-the-Air Federated Learning (AirFL) is an emerging paradigm that tightly integrates wireless signal processing and distributed machine learning to enable scalable AI at the network edge. By leveraging the superposition property of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Carlo Fischione , Kaibin Huang

Edge federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm that trains a global parametric model from distributed datasets based on wireless communications. This paper proposes a unit-modulus over-the-air computation (UMAirComp) framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shuai Wang , Yuncong Hong , Rui Wang , Qi Hao , Yik-Chung Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Federated learning (FL) enables mobile devices to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping data locally. However, there are two major research challenges to practically deploy FL over mobile devices: (i) frequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Liang Li , Chenpei Huang , Dian Shi , Hao Wang , Xiangwei Zhou , Minglei Shu , Miao Pan

We examine federated learning (FL) with over-the-air (OTA) aggregation, where mobile users (MUs) aim to reach a consensus on a global model with the help of a parameter server (PS) that aggregates the local gradients. In OTA FL, MUs train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Ozan Aygün , Mohammad Kazemi , Deniz Gündüz , Tolga M. Duman