arXiv:2608. 09208v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralized intelligence systems with heterogeneous devices and limited coordination increasingly rely on decentralized federated learning (DFL).
Decentralized intelligence systems with heterogeneous devices and limited coordination increasingly rely on decentralized federated learning (DFL). However, DFL suffers from convergence inefficiency under data heterogeneity due to the use of a uniform learning rate (LR) that ignores layer-specific optimization needs.
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: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:2608. 07007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative machine learning (ML) across distributed clients while preserving privacy.
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.
arXiv:2412.06210v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), federated learning (FL) has gained increasing attention for its privacy-preserving use...
The paper introduces a latent information sharing scheme for federated learning that mitigates client drift by sharing a small amount of hidden‑layer activations. The authors demonstrate both theoretically and empirically that this approach improves training efficiency while maintaining convergence guarantees and data privacy. Compared to existing methods such as FedProx, SCAFFOLD, FedPVR, FedProto, and SplitFed, the proposed method achieves higher model accuracy within a fixed round budget without adding significant communication overhead.
arXiv:2606. 10774v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decentralized Federated Learning(DFL) enables collaborative model training across wireless edge nodes, including IoT deployments, autonomous vehicles, UAV swarms, and satellite constellations.
The paper proposes two hybrid algorithms, FL+FSDP and FL+HSDP, that combine sharded data parallelism with federated learning-style aggregations to reduce communication overhead in large-scale AI training. By partitioning GPUs into loosely‑coupled federation groups, the methods keep inter‑group traffic minimal while maintaining a bounded global batch size. Experiments on a Llama3.1 8B model trained on 512 A100 GPUs show up to 8.04× faster data processing and 4.48 lower evaluation perplexity compared to conventional sharded DP.
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.
arXiv:2512. 12737v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decentralized federated learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server, but converges slowly under statistical heterogeneity.
arXiv:2606. 10774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) over lossy wireless networks faces two key challenges: selection bias, where updates from poor-quality links are systematically underrepresented due to partial model reception, and update staleness, where asynchronous nodes contribute outdated information.