arXiv Machine Learning

Ampere: Communication-Efficient and High-Accuracy Split Federated Learning

Ampere is a new split federated learning system that reduces both on‑device computation and device‑server communication while improving accuracy. It trains device and server blocks sequentially with local losses, eliminating gradient transfers, and uses a lightweight auxiliary network to consolidate activations into a single transfer. Experiments on CNNs and Transformers show up to 11.70 pp accuracy gains, 18.6× faster training, 911× less communication, and 14.5× less computation compared to state‑of‑the‑art SFL baselines.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Accurate and Resource-Efficient Federated Continual Learning

arXiv:2606. 11480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated continual learning (FCL) must learn from distributed task streams under limited resources, such as communication, computation, memory, and label availability.

By Jebacyril Arockiaraj, Dhruv Parikh, Jayashree Adivarahan, Rajgopal Kannan, Viktor Prasanna