Satellite-based distributed learning promises to train machine-learning models directly in orbit using massive, globally dispersed sensor data, thereby avoiding large-scale data downloads to ground se...
arXiv:2609.37481v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large-scale pervasive sensing increasingly relies on high-resolution satellite imagery, yet task-specific onboard vision is constrained by costly annot...
By Ahmed Abdelnaby, Mohamed Elmahallawy, Marius Bernahrndt, Tobias Hecking
arXiv:2608. 09687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations is affected by non-IID data and irregular ground-station visibility, both driven by orbital geometry.
By Satwat Bashir, Tasos Dagiuklas, Muddesar Iqbal
Satellite mega-constellations are emerging as large-scale sensing, communication, and computation fabrics, yet their learning architectures remain largely inherited from terrestrial federated learning...
The paper introduces a heterogeneous federated learning approach using the FractalNet architecture tailored for satellite mega‑constellations. It formalizes contact‑window‑constrained, depth‑heterogeneous optimization and proposes a distributed path scheduler that assigns model depth based on satellite SWAP‑C constraints, predicted contacts, and training statistics. The framework includes periodic update pooling and a three‑tier agentic control plane, and is validated through a wildfire detection case study across LEO, MEO, and GEO/HEO shells, demonstrating improvements in convergence, communication efficiency, energy adaptation, and robustness.
By Sai Puppala, Koushik Sinha
arXiv:2603.12976v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Scientific discovery increasingly relies on federated learning over data from high-resolution instruments, and these data are strongly non-IID and...
By Md Anwar Hossen, Nathan R. Tallent, Luanzheng Guo, Ali Jannesary
arXiv:2609.26631v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accurate ground-based cloud classification is important for atmospheric monitoring, solar-energy forecasting, aviation weather assessment, and climate...
By Esther Bou Dagher, Viktoriya Bu-Dager, Boguslaw Zegarlinski
arXiv:2511.02831v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The data for remote sensing is constantly acquired, and new data comes from a growing number and diversity of satellites, while the vast majority o...
By Hakob Tamazyan, Ani Vanyan, Alvard Barseghyan, Anna Khosrovyan, Evan Shelhamer, Hrant Khachatrian
arXiv:2602. 06932v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Speculative decoding can significantly accelerate LLM serving, yet most deployments today disentangle speculator training from serving, treating speculator training as a standalone offline modeling problem.
By Junxiong Wang, Fengxiang Bie, Jisen Li, Zhongzhu Zhou, Zelei Shao, Yubo Wang, Yinghui Liu, Qingyang Wu, Avner May, Sri Yanamandra, Ce Zhang, Tri Dao, Percy Liang, Ben Athiwaratkun, Shuaiwen Leon Song, Chenfeng Xu, Xiaoxia Wu
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.
By Zihan Zhang, Leon Wong, Blesson Varghese
The paper introduces OrbitALIF, a federated learning framework that performs cloud removal on low‑earth‑orbit satellites. It uses a compact 2.30 M‑parameter spiking neural network with adaptive gated fusion and spectral‑spatial hybrid attention modules, enabling both training and inference onboard. The approach achieves competitive cloud‑removal quality while consuming only 0.287 mJ per inference on neuromorphic hardware, a 72.3‑fold energy reduction compared to an equivalent ANN.
By Bohan Zhang, Chenyu Xu, Yijie Mao, Yuanming Shi
arXiv:2608. 15639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: \textit{Split Federated Learning} (SFL) enables distributed model training by splitting networks between the server and clients.
By Wenhao Yuan, Chenchen Lin, Wenhao Hu, Jian Chen, Jinfeng Xu, Shujie Li, Edith Cheuk Han Ngai