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Device heterogeneity poses major challenges in Federated Learning (FL), where resource-constrained clients slow down synchronous schemes that wait for all updates before aggregation. Asynchronous FL addresses this by incorporating updates…

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Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving collaboratively machine learning paradigm. Traditional FL requires all data owners (a.k.a. FL clients) to train the same local model. This design is not well-suited for scenarios involving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Liping Yi , Han Yu , Zhuan Shi , Gang Wang , Xiaoguang Liu , Lizhen Cui , Xiaoxiao Li

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for reducing the sample complexity of reinforcement learning tasks by exploiting information from different agents. However, when each agent interacts with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chenyu Zhang , Han Wang , Aritra Mitra , James Anderson

Federated learning (FL), which has gained increasing attention recently, enables distributed devices to train a common machine learning (ML) model for intelligent inference cooperatively without data sharing. However, problems in practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yujie Zhou , Zhidu Li , Tong Tang , Ruyan Wang

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed machine learning approach that enables collaborative training of a global model using multiple edge devices. The data distributed among the edge devices is highly heterogeneous. Thus, FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ji Liu , Beichen Ma , Qiaolin Yu , Ruoming Jin , Jingbo Zhou , Yang Zhou , Huaiyu Dai , Haixun Wang , Dejing Dou , Patrick Valduriez

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution in Edge Computing (EC) environments to process the proliferation of data generated by edge devices. By collaboratively optimizing the global machine learning models on distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Yongzhe Jia , Xuyun Zhang , Amin Beheshti , Wanchun Dou

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for privacy-preserving model training across decentralized devices. However, it faces challenges such as statistical heterogeneity and susceptibility to adversarial attacks, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jialuo He , Wei Chen , Xiaojin Zhang

Federated learning (FL) across multiple HPC facilities faces stochastic admission delays from batch schedulers that dominate wall-clock time. Synchronous FL suffers from severe stragglers, while asynchronous FL accumulates stale updates…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yijiang Li , Emon Dey , Zilinghan Li , Krishnan Raghavan , Ravi Madduri , Kibaek Kim

Detecting and localizing anomalies in cyber-physical systems (CPS) has become increasingly challenging as systems grow in complexity, particularly due to varying sensor reliability and node failures in distributed environments. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 William Marfo , Deepak K. Tosh , Shirley V. Moore

Asynchronous protocols have been shown to improve the scalability of federated learning (FL) with a massive number of clients. Meanwhile, momentum-based methods can achieve the best model quality in synchronous FL. However, naively applying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Tao Yu , Congzheng Song , Jianyu Wang , Mona Chitnis

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, optimizing both energy efficiency and model accuracy remains a challenge, given device and data heterogeneity.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Roopkatha Banerjee , Tejus Chandrashekar , Ananth Eswar , Yogesh Simmhan

In the pursuit of refining precise perception models for fully autonomous driving, continual online model training becomes essential. Federated Learning (FL) within vehicular networks offers an efficient mechanism for model training while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ahmad Khalil , Tizian Dege , Pegah Golchin , Rostyslav Olshevskyi , Antonio Fernandez Anta , Tobias Meuser

In practical federated learning (FL), the large communication overhead between clients and the server is often a significant bottleneck. Gradient compression methods can effectively reduce this overhead, while error feedback (EF) restores…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Diying Yang , Yingwei Hou , Weigang Wu

Asynchronous Federated Learning (AFL) confronts inherent challenges arising from the heterogeneity of devices (e.g., their computation capacities) and low-bandwidth environments, both potentially causing stale model updates (e.g., local…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiajun Song , Jiajun Luo , Rongwei Lu , Shuzhao Xie , Bin Chen , Zhi Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning framework where distributed clients collaboratively train a machine learning model coordinated by a server. To tackle the stragglers issue in asynchronous FL, we consider that each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jiarong Yang , Yuan Liu , Fangjiong Chen , Wen Chen , Changle Li

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm in which a central server coordinates multiple participants (clients) collaboratively to train on decentralized data. In practice, FL often faces statistical, system, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Liping Yi , Han Yu , Gang Wang , Xiaoguang Liu , Xiaoxiao Li

Handling data staleness remains a significant challenge in federated learning with highly time-sensitive tasks, where data is generated continuously and data staleness largely affects model performance. Although recent works attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tao Liu , Xuehe Wang

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training across distributed clients while ensuring data privacy. Traditionally, FL relies on a centralized server to coordinate learning, which creates bottlenecks and a single point…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Phani Sahasra Akkinepally , Manaswini Piduguralla , Sushant Joshi , Sathya Peri , Sandeep Kulkarni

Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative training while ensuring data privacy across distributed edge devices, making it a popular solution for privacy-sensitive applications. However, FL faces significant challenges due to statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Huy Q. Le , Latif U. Khan , Choong Seon Hong

In this paper, we study asynchronous federated learning (FL) in a wireless distributed learning network (WDLN). To allow each edge device to use its local data more efficiently via asynchronous FL, transmission scheduling in the WDLN for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hyun-Suk Lee , Jang-Won Lee