The paper introduces connectivity-aware client selection for decentralized federated learning, using spectral graph tools to choose a subset of structurally relevant neighbors for each client. By leveraging eigenvector embeddings and heat/diffusion kernel similarities, the method reduces communication overhead while maintaining or improving accuracy compared to uniform subsampling and full broadcasting. Experiments show up to a 3‑percentage‑point accuracy gain under strong data heterogeneity and a 50% reduction in transmitted messages.
arXiv:2603. 01730v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decentralized federated learning (DFL) has emerged as a transformative server-free paradigm that enables collaborative learning over large-scale heterogeneous networks.
arXiv:2606. 06687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate cluster formation, involving the number and composition of clusters, in decentralized federated learning (FL) with heterogeneous machine learning (ML) optimizers.
arXiv:2610.08176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralized learning is highly sensitive to communication topology under non-IID data. Adaptive peer-selection methods can exploit local model inform...
arXiv:2506. 02897v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training, but its effectiveness is often limited by client data heterogeneity.
arXiv:2505. 09854v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As end-user device capability increases and demand for intelligent services at the Internet's edge rises, distributed learning has emerged as a key enabling technology for the intelligent edge.
The paper presents a decentralized multitask learning framework that learns task relationships directly from distributed data. It introduces a two‑phase strategy: first estimating a generalized graph Laplacian from noisy stochastic gradient iterates, then using the learned graph to facilitate cooperative multitask diffusion learning. The authors provide theoretical analysis of Laplacian estimation error, its impact on steady‑state performance, and a topology sensitivity index, and confirm the benefits of learned task graphs through simulations.
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.
arXiv:2607. 04254v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over-the-air (OTA) aggregation exploits the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channels to aggregate model updates from multiple devices within a single transmission slot, significantly reducing communication latency.
The paper investigates federated hypergraph learning where local hyperedge releases can correspond to multiple global hypergraph structures, highlighting identifiability and computational challenges. It shows that pairwise assignment of latent correspondences is tractable while multi-client hyperedge matching is generally intractable, and introduces FedASTRA—a method that learns correspondence‑invariant diffusion representations via adaptive heat diffusion and masked latent prediction, communicating only model parameters. Experiments on eight real‑world datasets, including ogbn‑papers100M, demonstrate that FedASTRA achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance‑communication trade‑offs, reaching 50.07 % accuracy and 29.73 % Macro‑F1 while sending only 59.60 MiB per round.
arXiv:2504. 17471v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gossip Learning (GL) is a decentralized learning paradigm where users iteratively exchange and aggregate models with a small set of neighboring peers.
The paper introduces Spectral Connectivity-Regularized Graph Learning (SCoGL), a method for learning sparse graphs from limited data by incorporating Laplacian spectral priors that promote global connectivity. SCoGL extends the graphical lasso objective with a connectivity prior derived from Laplacian eigenvalues and uses projected gradient descent with Armijo backtracking for optimization. Experiments demonstrate that SCoGL improves graph recovery and enhances downstream tasks such as graph signal denoising when observations are scarce.
arXiv:2608. 09208v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralized intelligence systems with heterogeneous devices and limited coordination increasingly rely on decentralized federated learning (DFL).