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Communication efficiency is a central challenge in distributed machine learning training, and message compression is a widely used solution. However, standard Error Feedback (EF) methods (Seide et al., 2014), though effective for smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Yuan Gao , Anton Rodomanov , Jeremy Rack , Sebastian Stich

This work considers the category distribution heterogeneity in federated learning. This issue is due to biased labeling preferences at multiple clients and is a typical setting of data heterogeneity. To alleviate this issue, most previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Rui Ye , Mingkai Xu , Jianyu Wang , Chenxin Xu , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

In privacy-preserving mobile network transmission scenarios with heterogeneous client data, personalized federated learning methods that decouple feature extractors and classifiers have demonstrated notable advantages in enhancing learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ming Yang , Dongrun Li , Xin Wang , Feng Li , Lisheng Fan , Chunxiao Wang , Xiaoming Wu , Peng Cheng

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data but suffers from limited scalability, high communication costs, and privacy risks due to its centralized architecture. This paper proposes FedSelect-ME, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hanie Vatani , Reza Ebrahimi Atani

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative learning, yet data heterogeneity remains a critical challenge. While existing methods achieve progress in addressing data heterogeneity for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuhao Zhou , Jindi Lv , Yuxin Tian , Dan Si , Qing Ye , Jiancheng Lv

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm where a shared central model is learned across distributed edge devices while the training data remains on these devices. Federated Averaging (FedAvg) is the leading optimization method…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yujing Chen , Yue Ning , Martin Slawski , Huzefa Rangwala

This paper presents a family of algorithms for decentralized convex composite problems. We consider the setting of a network of agents that cooperatively minimize a global objective function composed of a sum of local functions plus a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Yichuan Li , Petros G. Voulgaris , Dusan M. Stipanovic , Nikolaos M. Freris

On-device memory concerns in distributed deep learning have become severe due to (i) the growth of model size in multi-GPU training, and (ii) the wide adoption of deep neural networks for federated learning on IoT devices which have limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Bingcong Li , Shuai Zheng , Parameswaran Raman , Anshumali Shrivastava , Georgios B. Giannakis

Federated learning (FL) is a promising and powerful approach for training deep learning models without sharing the raw data of clients. During the training process of FL, the central server and distributed clients need to exchange a vast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zhefeng Qiao , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated Collaborative Filtering (FedCF) is an emerging field focused on developing a new recommendation framework with preserving privacy in a federated setting. Existing FedCF methods typically combine distributed Collaborative Filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Federated learning (FL) ameliorates privacy concerns in settings where a central server coordinates learning from data distributed across many clients. The clients train locally and communicate the models they learn to the server;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Monica Ribero , Haris Vikalo

We first propose a decentralized proximal stochastic gradient tracking method (DProxSGT) for nonconvex stochastic composite problems, with data heterogeneously distributed on multiple workers in a decentralized connected network. To save…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Yonggui Yan , Jie Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , Xiaodong Cui , Songtao Lu , Yangyang Xu

We develop two new algorithms, called, FedDR and asyncFedDR, for solving a fundamental nonconvex composite optimization problem in federated learning. Our algorithms rely on a novel combination between a nonconvex Douglas-Rachford splitting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-29 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Nhan H. Pham , Dzung T. Phan , Lam M. Nguyen

Federated learning has allowed the training of statistical models over remote devices without the transfer of raw client data. In practice, training in heterogeneous and large networks introduce novel challenges in various aspects like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Dipankar Sarkar , Sumit Rai , Ankur Narang

Deep learning has achieved great success in many applications. However, its deployment in practice has been hurdled by two issues: the privacy of data that has to be aggregated centrally for model training and high communication overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tien-Dung Cao , Tram Truong-Huu , Hien Tran , Khanh Tran

This paper focuses on a multi-agent zeroth-order online optimization problem in a federated learning setting for target tracking. The agents only sense their current distances to their targets and aim to maintain a minimum safe distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ege C. Kaya , M. Berk Sahin , Abolfazl Hashemi

We consider a many-to-one wireless architecture for federated learning at the network edge, where multiple edge devices collaboratively train a model using local data. The unreliable nature of wireless connectivity, together with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Junshan Zhang , Na Li , Mehmet Dedeoglu

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed model training from local data collected by users. In distributed systems with constrained resources and potentially high dynamics, e.g., mobile edge networks, the efficiency of FL is an important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Shiqiang Wang , Jake Perazzone , Mingyue Ji , Kevin S. Chan

Semantic communication (SemCom), regarded as the evolution of the traditional Shannon's communication model, stresses the transmission of semantic information instead of the data itself. Federated learning (FL), owing to its distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xinyu Zhou , Yang Li , Jun Zhao

Federated learning is a distributed optimization paradigm that allows training machine learning models across decentralized devices while keeping the data localized. The standard method, FedAvg, suffers from client drift which can hamper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Xiaowen Jiang , Anton Rodomanov , Sebastian U. Stich