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.
arXiv:2502. 10239v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is a promising paradigm for finetuning Large Language Models (LLMs) across distributed data sources while preserving data privacy.
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.
arXiv:2608.22188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Split Federated Fine-tuning (SFF) is a promising paradigm for scaling Large Language Models (LLMs) by partitioning model depth between resource-const...
arXiv:2608. 15311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated instruction fine-tuning enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to adapt to decentralized, privacy-sensitive data without requiring data sharing.
Optimal Hydra is a transformer‑based heterogeneous federated learning framework designed for fine‑tuning large language models. It creates client‑specific sub‑networks, called Hydra‑nets, by selecting global layers and tailoring attention heads to each client’s local data distribution. Experiments on three datasets demonstrate significant performance gains over baseline methods while reducing local resource demands.
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.
The paper introduces FedRouter, a personalized federated learning framework that clusters tasks rather than clients to build specialized language models. It employs local and global clustering of adapters to associate them with specific tasks and includes an evaluation router that directs test samples to the most suitable adapter. Experiments on a multitask dataset show FedRouter outperforms existing methods, achieving up to 6.1% relative improvement under task interference and 136% under generalization scenarios.
arXiv:2511. 19959v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has been extensively studied as a privacy-preserving training paradigm.
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:2502. 08829v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) with non-IID data often degrades client performance below local training baselines.
arXiv:2606. 15625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The continuous scaling of large language models (LLMs) incurs prohibitive computational costs, making Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) a scalable alternative for efficient fine-tuning via sparse activation.
arXiv:2603.21276v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The growing demand for on-device large language model (LLM) services on mobile edge devices has driven the adoption of Mixture-of-Experts (Mo...