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Decentralized learning (DL) enables collaborative machine learning (ML) without a central server, making it suitable for settings where training data cannot be centrally hosted. We introduce Mosaic Learning, a DL framework that decomposes…

We present Epidemic Learning (EL), a simple yet powerful decentralized learning (DL) algorithm that leverages changing communication topologies to achieve faster model convergence compared to conventional DL approaches. At each round of EL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Martijn de Vos , Sadegh Farhadkhani , Rachid Guerraoui , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma

Decentralized learning (DL) has gained prominence for its potential benefits in terms of scalability, privacy, and fault tolerance. It consists of many nodes that coordinate without a central server and exchange millions of parameters in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Akash Dhasade , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Milos Vujasinovic

Decentralized federated learning (DFL), a serverless variant of federated learning, poses unique challenges for parameter-efficient fine-tuning due to the factorized structure of low-rank adaptation (LoRA). Unlike linear parameters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiaoyu Wang , Xiaotian Li , Zhixiang Zhou , Chen Li , Yong Liu

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has emerged as a robust distributed paradigm that circumvents the single-point-of-failure and communication bottleneck risks of centralized architectures. However, a significant challenge arises as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Lianshuai Guo , Zhongzheng Yuan , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Meixia Qu , Wenyu Wang

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging approach that enables nodes to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing raw data. In many application domains, such as healthcare, this approach faces challenges due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sayan Biswas , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Rishi Sharma , Thibaud Trinca , Martijn de Vos

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Shilong Wang , Jianchun Liu , Hongli Xu , Chenxia Tang , Qianpiao Ma , Liusheng Huang

Federated learning (FL) has been facilitating privacy-preserving deep learning in many walks of life such as medical image classification, network intrusion detection, and so forth. Whereas it necessitates a central parameter server for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai

We propose an efficient protocol for decentralized training of deep neural networks from distributed data sources. The proposed protocol allows to handle different phases of model training equally well and to quickly adapt to concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Michael Kamp , Linara Adilova , Joachim Sicking , Fabian Hüger , Peter Schlicht , Tim Wirtz , Stefan Wrobel

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

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is a promising machine learning paradigm for bringing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the network edge. Running DFL on top of edge networks, however, faces severe performance challenges…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Tingyang Sun , Tuan Nguyen , Ting He

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging paradigm of collaborative machine learning that enables nodes in a network to train models collectively without sharing their raw data or relying on a central server. This paper introduces Zip-DL,…

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging technique that allows nodes on the web to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing raw data. Dealing with stragglers, i.e., nodes with slower compute or communication than…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Sayan Biswas , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Alexis Marouani , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Martijn de Vos

Modern mobile devices have access to a wealth of data suitable for learning models, which in turn can greatly improve the user experience on the device. For example, language models can improve speech recognition and text entry, and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 H. Brendan McMahan , Eider Moore , Daniel Ramage , Seth Hampson , Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Decentralized learning (DL) leverages edge devices for collaborative model training while avoiding coordination by a central server. Due to privacy concerns, DL has become an attractive alternative to centralized learning schemes since…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Martijn de Vos , Akash Dhasade , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Erick Lavoie , Johan Pouwelse , Rishi Sharma

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm within edge computing (EC) systems, enabling numerous edge devices to collaboratively train artificial intelligence (AI) models while maintaining data privacy. To overcome the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yuze Liu , Tiehua Zhang , Zhishu Shen , Libing Wu , Shiping Chen , Jiong Jin

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) is a variant of federated learning, where edge nodes only communicate with their one-hop neighbors to learn the optimal model. However, as information exchange is restricted in a range of one-hop in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Li Chen , Wei Liu , Yunfei Chen , Weidong Wang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a potential distributed learning paradigm that enables model training on edge devices (i.e., workers) while preserving data privacy. However, its reliance on a centralized server leads to limited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yizhou Shi , Qianpiao Ma , Yan Xu , Junlong Zhou , Ming Hu , Yunming Liao , Hongli Xu

Current deep learning (DL) systems rely on a centralized computing paradigm which limits the amount of available training data, increases system latency, and adds privacy and security constraints. On-device learning, enabled by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Sai Aparna Aketi , Amandeep Singh , Jan Rabaey

Decentralized optimization is emerging as a viable alternative for scalable distributed machine learning, but also introduces new challenges in terms of synchronization costs. To this end, several communication-reduction techniques, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Giorgi Nadiradze , Amirmojtaba Sabour , Peter Davies , Shigang Li , Dan Alistarh
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