The paper introduces FedSWE, a federated learning algorithm designed to handle non‑stationary and heterogeneous client availability without requiring prior real‑time knowledge of which devices are online. FedSWE compensates for missed computations, stabilizes global updates, and mixes local updates through implicit gossiping, all while adding only modest memory and computational overhead. The authors prove that FedSWE converges to a stationary point for non‑convex objectives and achieves linear speedup in certain scenarios, and they validate these claims with experiments on real‑world datasets featuring diverse client unavailability patterns.
By Ming Xiang, Stratis Ioannidis, Edmund Yeh, Carlee Joe-Wong, Lili Su
arXiv:2408. 05886v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Heterogeneous system configurations of distributed clients connected to the central server (CS) via a time-varying wireless network pose significant challenges for popular distributed machine learning (ML) algorithms such as federated learning (FL).
By Ferdous Pervej, Minseok Choi, Andreas F. Molisch
arXiv:2608. 07007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative machine learning (ML) across distributed clients while preserving privacy.
By Majid Kundroo, Tinku Singh, Taehong Kim
arXiv:2606. 11272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative and privacy-preserving model training across distributed clients, but most existing FL systems implicitly assume data stationarity.
By Masoume Gholizade, Fabrizio Ruffini, Pietro Ducange, Francesco Marcelloni
arXiv:2608. 12108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while keeping data local.
By Mirko Konstantin, Stefan Zachow, Anirban Mukhopadhyay
DART-FL is a multitask federated learning framework designed for edge devices that must balance online inference and model training under limited resources. It dynamically allocates resources between inference and training based on current inference backlog and service capacity, then distributes remaining training capacity among tasks using a queue‑aware scheduler that adjusts loss weights. Experiments on image classification datasets with synthetic and real workloads show that DART‑FL adapts to bursty inference demand, improving accuracy for high‑demand tasks while preserving overall multitask performance.
By Yiming Xie, Pinrui Yu, Geng Yuan, Xue Lin, Ningfang Mi
FedSAP is a federated learning framework that addresses heterogeneous edge devices by using structured pruning as a budget-constrained tri-state channel allocation. It partitions model channels into a Global pool, pseudo-domain-specific Private pools, and a Dropped state, allowing broadly useful features to be shared while isolating domain-sensitive updates. Experiments on Digits and Office-Caltech datasets show FedSAP achieving higher mean global accuracy than the strongest baseline while supporting up to 80% client pruning ratios.
By Wentao Yue, Tianyou Lai, Hongji Li, Qingyu Mao, Qilei Li
arXiv:2609.15625v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Driven by the escalating demand for privacy-preserving computing, Federated Learning (FL) has witnessed remarkable progress, becoming a cornerstone t...
By Changkun Lin, Junxiao Wang
The paper introduces Distributed Learning as a Service (DLaaS), a platform that lets developers launch distributed/federated learning jobs through a single admin dashboard. It offers declarative options such as Differential Privacy, Split Learning, Hierarchical Aggregation, and Knowledge Distillation without requiring changes to client code. The authors demonstrate the full service lifecycle on an industrial smart‑home Wake‑up Word task using the Ok Aura dataset, showing live operation across Android clients and Dockerized aggregators, and releasing the source code and video walkthroughs.
By Tianyue Chu, Filippo Vannella, Dimitra Tsigkari, Paula Delgado-Santos, Fernando L\'opez, Pablo Gomez Guerrero, Sotirios Spantideas, David Solans Noguero
FlexP-SFT introduces an aggregation-free framework for personalized split federated fine-tuning of large language models, eliminating the client-side aggregation step that traditionally causes communication bottlenecks and straggler issues. The method employs a layer‑flexible alignment strategy to balance personalization and generalization without global synchronization, and formulates split‑ratio selection as a resource‑aware discrete optimization problem. Experiments demonstrate that FlexP-SFT improves both accuracy and latency compared to baselines, achieving a superior resource‑accuracy trade‑off.
By Jiaxiang Geng, Tianjun Yuan, Pengchao Han, Ying Gao, Xianhao Chen, Bing Luo
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.
By Seungjun Lee, Ensieh Khazaei, Dimitrios Hatzinakos, Baturalp Buyukates, Sunwoo Lee
arXiv:2608. 04455v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: One of the most challenging problems entertainment live-streaming services face in recommendation systems is that user behaviors are sparse and delayed, and interaction data exhibits bias for different user segments.
By Xiaoyi Gu, Julia Tavares, Eder Santana, Carlos Mendoza-Cardenas, Nikita Mishra, Saad Ali