arXiv Machine Learning

A Unified Framework for Fair and Personalized Decentralized Learning under Communication Constraints

The paper introduces DMFL-SQ, a decentralized multi-task learning algorithm that integrates graph-based personalization, agnostic fairness, and compressed event-triggered communication. It provides convergence guarantees for non-convex objectives, achieving an ≠O(T^{-1/2}) stationarity rate despite sparse, quantized, and event-triggered communication, and offers PAC-Bayes generalization bounds for the fairness objective. Experiments on CIFAR-10 and the MUSMET EEG dataset show that DMFL-SQ reduces communication while preserving predictive performance and improving fairness across clients.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Cluster-Aware Over-the-Air Federated Learning with Energy-Harvesting Devices: From Global Training to Model Personalization

arXiv:2608. 01426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables distributed optimization and learning across decentralized edge devices while preserving data privacy, but its performance is fundamentally constrained by heterogeneous data distributions, limited communication resources, and energy availability.

By Furkan Bagci, Busra Tegin, Mohammad Kazemi, Tolga M. Duman
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Resilient Decentralized Wireless Federated Learning via Gradient Tracking with AdamW

The paper introduces QEF-GT-AdamW, a communication‑efficient and outage‑resilient algorithm for decentralized wireless federated learning. It combines gradient tracking, AdamW adaptive optimization, and dual‑stream biased quantization with error feedback to reduce communication payloads while mitigating non‑IID data effects. The method includes a local fallback strategy for unreliable broadcasts and provides convergence guarantees under compressed, unreliable wireless communication, demonstrating improved robustness and accuracy‑communication trade‑offs on heterogeneous MNIST and CIFAR‑10 datasets.

By Nguyen Van Thieu, Ti Ti Nguyen, Ons Aouedi, Vu Nguyen Ha, Symeon Chatzinotas
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

FedPGT: Progressive Gradient Transmission for Vehicular Federated Learning over Time-Varying Channels

FedPGT introduces a progressive gradient transmission scheme for vehicular federated learning over time‑varying channels, where vehicles send high‑magnitude gradient entries according to instantaneous channel conditions. The authors derive a convergence bound showing diminishing returns governed by a power‑law decay, and formulate a stochastic optimization problem that is solved via a Lyapunov drift‑plus‑penalty approach with per‑slot surrogate variables. A low‑complexity resource allocation algorithm is proposed, and experiments on CIFAR‑10 and Argoverse demonstrate a 3.65% accuracy gain and a 12.66% reduction in displacement error compared to state‑of‑the‑art baselines.

By Jintao Yan, Tan Chen, Yuxuan Sun, Sheng Zhou, Zhisheng Niu