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Federated learning (FL) is an effective technique to directly involve edge devices in machine learning training while preserving client privacy. However, the substantial communication overhead of FL makes training challenging when edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Shiqi He , Qifan Yan , Feijie Wu , Lanjun Wang , Mathias Lécuyer , Ivan Beschastnikh

Federated learning (FL) is a novel machine learning setting that enables on-device intelligence via decentralized training and federated optimization. Deep neural networks' rapid development facilitates the learning techniques for modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Shaoxiong Ji , Wenqi Jiang , Anwar Walid , Xue Li

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on private, on-device data can empower tailored personalized AI agents. However, fine-tuning LLMs on resource-constrained edge devices faces significant challenges, including excessive computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jian Ma , Xinchen Lyu , Jun Jiang , Qimei Cui , Haipeng Yao , Xiaofeng Tao

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging learning paradigm without violating users' privacy. However, large model size and frequent model aggregation cause serious communication bottleneck for FL. To reduce the communication volume,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Linping Qu , Shenghui Song , Chi-Ying Tsui

Multimodal transformers integrate diverse data types like images, audio, and text, advancing tasks such as audio-visual understanding and image-text retrieval; yet their high parameterization limits deployment on resource-constrained edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Timo Fudala , Vasileios Tsouvalas , Nirvana Meratnia

The goal of this study is to improve the accuracy of millimeter wave received power prediction by utilizing camera images and radio frequency (RF) signals, while gathering image inputs in a communication-efficient and privacy-preserving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Yusuke Koda , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Koji Yamamoto , Takayuki Nishio , Masahiro Morikura

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm, aiming to train a global model by exploiting the decentralized data across millions of edge devices. Compared with centralized learning, FL preserves the clients'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Bocheng Chen , Nikolay Ivanov , Guangjing Wang , Qiben Yan

Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising solution for training machine learning models across distributed data sources while preserving data privacy. However, FL faces critical challenges related to communication overhead and local…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ziyue Xu , Zhihong Zhang , Holger R. Roth , Chester Chen , Yan Cheng , Andrew Feng

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

Federated Learning (FL) faces major challenges regarding communication overhead and model privacy when training large language models (LLMs), especially in healthcare applications. To address these, we introduce Selective Attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yue Li , Lihong Zhang

The high cost of communicating gradients is a major bottleneck for federated learning, as the bandwidth of the participating user devices is limited. Existing gradient compression algorithms are mainly designed for data centers with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Xinyan Dai , Xiao Yan , Kaiwen Zhou , Han Yang , Kelvin K. W. Ng , James Cheng , Yu Fan

The widespread adoption of Federated Learning (FL), a privacy-preserving distributed learning methodology, has been impeded by the challenge of high communication overheads, typically arising from the transmission of large-scale models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zihao Zhao , Yuzhu Mao , Zhenpeng Shi , Yang Liu , Tian Lan , Wenbo Ding , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Can we find a network architecture for ML model training so as to optimize training loss (and thus, accuracy) in Split Federated Learning (SFL)? And can this architecture also reduce training delay and communication overhead? While accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yiannis Papageorgiou , Yannis Thomas , Ramin Khalili , Iordanis Koutsopoulos

There are situations where data relevant to machine learning problems are distributed across multiple locations that cannot share the data due to regulatory, competitiveness, or privacy reasons. Machine learning approaches that require data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Dimitris Stripelis , Jose Luis Ambite

Data privacy concerns has made centralized training of data, which is scattered across silos, infeasible, leading to the need for collaborative learning frameworks. To address that, two prominent frameworks emerged, i.e., federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Tianchen Zhou , Zhanyi Hu , Bingzhe Wu , Cen Chen

Federated Edge Learning (FEL), an emerging distributed Machine Learning (ML) paradigm, enables model training in a distributed environment while ensuring user privacy by using physical separation for each user data. However, with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jingbo Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Qiang Fan

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which incorporates the Cloud, edge nodes and end devices, has shown great potential in bringing data processing closer to the data sources. Meanwhile, Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Rui Mao

Federated Learning (FL) presents significant potential for collaborative optimization without data sharing. Since synthetic data is sent to the server, leveraging the popular concept of dataset distillation, this FL framework protects real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haozhi Shi , Weiying Xie , Hangyu Ye , Daixun Li , Jitao Ma , Yunsong Li , Leyuan Fang

Currently, progressively larger deep neural networks are trained on ever growing data corpora. As this trend is only going to increase in the future, distributed training schemes are becoming increasingly relevant. A major issue in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Felix Sattler , Simon Wiedemann , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

Federated Learning (FL) plays a prominent role in solving machine learning problems with data distributed across clients. In FL, to reduce the communication overhead of data between clients and the server, each client communicates the local…