Federated parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) enables communication-efficient adaptation of large pretrained models on decentralized edge data, but it remains fragile under non-IID client heterogeneity. In low-rank adaptation (LoRA), different clients may learn locally useful but spectrally misaligned update subspaces, causing high-variance aggregation and poor global transfer.
arXiv:2607. 21074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning Vision Transformers (ViTs) with low-rank adapters (LoRA) promises better communication efficiency under federated setup, yet existing aggregation strategies face fundamental limitations.
By Hariharan Ramesh, Jyotikrishna Dass
arXiv:2601. 11219v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) for large language models (LLMs) has attracted increasing attention as a privacy-preserving approach for adapting models over distributed data, where parameter-efficient methods such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) are widely adopted to reduce communication and memory costs.
By Zhikang Shen, Jianrong Lu, Haiyuan Wan, Jianhai Chen
arXiv:2606. 03209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) in privacy-sensitive and resource-constrained environments remains challenging.
By Yunsheng Yuan, Shaowei Li, Kai Wang, Zhongyuan Sun, Zheng Zhang, Kai Han, Jun Luo, Feng Li
arXiv:2608. 01290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series foundation models (TSFMs) such as Chronos have demonstrated strong forecasting capabilities across domains, yet adapting them to institutionally fragmented settings, where data cannot be centralized due to regulatory, competitive, or sovereignty constraints, remains unexplored.
By Amit Sharma, Nitin Auluck, Akramul Azim
arXiv:2606. 06154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated fine-tuning of foundation models using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) offers a communication efficient solution for distributed learning.
By Sunny Gupta, Shambhavi Shanker, Amit Sethi
arXiv:2606. 02563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heterogeneous Differential Privacy (HDP) in Federated Learning (FL) allows clients to select individual privacy budgets ($\varepsilon_i$) according to institutional policies and data sensitivity.
By Farhin Farhad Riya, Olivera Kotevska, Jinyuan Stella Sun
arXiv:2606. 00944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Applying differential privacy (DP) via DP-SGD to Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a natural approach for privacy-preserving fine-tuning.
By Shihao Wang, Xueru Zhang
arXiv:2602. 06838v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy.
By Jin Wang, Hui Ma, Yajun Zhang, Xinjun Pei, Ming Yan, Fei Xing, Yikun Chen
arXiv:2607. 18343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated fine-tuning is bottlenecked by communication: FedAvg and pseudo-gradient schemes transmit a payload that scales with the model, and gradient compression shrinks it by only a constant factor.
By Radhakrishna Achanta, Will Reed
arXiv:2607. 04170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized training without data sharing, but suffers from statistical heterogeneity across clients, leading to client drift, poor generalization, and sharp minima compared to centralized training.
By Liyang Yuan, Yibo Yang, Dandan Guo
arXiv:2608. 14654v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative paradigm that enables multiple devices to train a global model while preserving local data privacy.
By Hai Anh Tran, Cuong Ta, Truong X. Tran