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Time-triggered federated learning, in contrast to conventional event-based federated learning, organizes users into tiers based on fixed time intervals. However, this network still faces challenges due to a growing number of devices and…
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Many pre-trained models (PTMs) are available in modern applications. Because different PTMs are often trained on different datasets, their performances can vary substantially for different new tasks, and the ranking of the candidates may…
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Adapting pretrained models typically involves a trade-off between the high training costs of backpropagation and the heavy inference overhead of memory-based or in-context learning. We propose FAAST, a forward-only associative adaptation…