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Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods like Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) optimize federated training by reducing computational and communication costs. We propose RoLoRA, a federated framework using alternating optimization to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Shuangyi Chen , Yuanxin Guo , Yue Ju , Harik Dalal , Zhongwen Zhu , Ashish Khisti

Federated fine-tuning of foundation models with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) provides an efficient solution for reducing communication and computation costs while preserving data locality. However, the direct combination of FedAvg and LoRA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zehao Wang , Guanglei Yang , Yihan Zeng , Hang Xu , Hongzhi Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Chun-Mei Feng

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a natural method for finetuning in communication-constrained machine learning settings such as cross-device federated learning. Prior work that has studied LoRA in the context of federated learning has focused…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Kevin Kuo , Arian Raje , Kousik Rajesh , Virginia Smith

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is widely used for federated fine-tuning. Yet under non-IID settings, it can substantially underperform full-parameter fine-tuning. Through with-high-probability robustness analysis, we uncover that this gap can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hongyi Peng , Han Yu , Xiaoxiao Li , Qiang Yang

Federated learning (FL) offers a promising distributed learning paradigm for internet of vehicles (IoV) applications. However, it faces challenges from communication overhead and dynamic environments. Model compression techniques reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Huaicheng Li , Junhui Zhao , Haoyu Quan , Xiaoming Wang

Fine-tuning large language models requires high computational and memory resources, and is therefore associated with significant costs. When training on federated datasets, an increased communication effort is also needed. For this reason,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Evelyn Trautmann , Ian Hales , Martin F. Volk

In this paper, we introduce a method for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), inspired by Multi-Task learning in a federated manner. Our approach leverages the structure of each client's model and enables a learning scheme that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ahmed Elbakary , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Tamer ElBatt , Karim Seddik , Mehdi Bennis

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) in federated settings enables privacy-preserving adaptation but suffers from cross-client interference due to model aggregation. Existing federated LoRA fine-tuning methods, primarily based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jieming Bian , Lei Wang , Letian Zhang , Jie Xu

This paper revisits alternating low-rank updates for federated fine-tuning and examines their behavior in decentralized federated learning (DFL). While alternating the LoRA matrices has been shown to stabilize aggregation in centralized FL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiaoyu Wang , Xiaotian Li , Zhixiang Zhou , Chen Li , Yong Liu

Federated LoRA has emerged as a promising technique for efficiently fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on distributed devices by reducing the number of trainable parameters. However, existing approaches often inadequately overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yanzhao Hou , Jiaxiang Geng , Boyu Li , Xiaofeng Tao , Juncheng Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Bing Luo

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) aims to adapt pre-trained models to specific tasks using relatively small and domain-specific datasets. Among Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) stands out by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yarui Cao , Kai Liu

Federated Learning (FL) has gained popularity for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) across multiple nodes, each with its own private data. While LoRA has been widely adopted for parameter efficient federated fine-tuning, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Navyansh Mahla , Sunny Gupta , Amit Sethi

Federated fine-tuning (FedFT) provides an effective paradigm for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) in privacy-sensitive scenarios. However, practical deployment remains challenging due to the limited resources on end devices.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Rukuo Li , Jianchun Liu , Hongli Xu , Liusheng Huang

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has recently gained attention for fine-tuning foundation models by incorporating trainable low-rank matrices, thereby reducing the number of trainable parameters. While LoRA offers numerous advantages, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Yeming Wen , Swarat Chaudhuri

While large pre-trained models have achieved impressive performance across AI tasks, their deployment in privacy-sensitive and distributed environments remains challenging. Federated learning (FL) offers a viable solution by enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ruofan Jia , Weiying Xie , Jie Lei , Jitao Ma , Haonan Qin , Leyuan Fang

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly powering web-based applications, whose effectiveness relies on fine-tuning with large-scale instruction data. However, such data often contains valuable or sensitive information that limits its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yicheng Zhang , Zhen Qin , Zhaomin Wu , Jian Hou , Shuiguang Deng

Federated fine-tuning (FFT) of large language models (LLMs) has recently emerged as a promising solution to enable domain-specific adaptation while preserving data privacy. Despite its benefits, FFT on resource-constrained clients relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Manning Zhu , Songtao Guo , Pengzhan Zhou , Yansong Ning , Chang Han , Dewen Qiao

Integrating Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) into federated learning offers a promising solution for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) without sharing local data. However, several methods designed for federated LoRA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hariharan Ramesh , Jyotikrishna Dass

Federated Learning (FL) with parameter-efficient fine-tuning, such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), enables scalable model training on distributed data. However, when combined with Differential Privacy (DP), LoRA often introduces errors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Linh Tran , Ana Milanova , Stacy Patterson

Pre-trained foundation models (FMs), with extensive number of neurons, are key to advancing next-generation intelligence services, where personalizing these models requires massive amount of task-specific data and computational resources.…

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