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
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.
By Yijun Lu, Zihan Fang, Pengpeng Qiao, Zheng Lin, Jing Yang, Yuxin Zhang, Por Lip Yee, Zhe Chen, Jun Luo
FLoKD is an adaptive knowledge‑distillation framework designed for federated fine‑tuning of low‑rank LLMs over wireless networks. It transmits intermediate LoRA activations instead of full parameters or token‑level logits, and uses transformer block importance scoring plus dataset selection to reduce communication. Experiments on WikiText‑103, PTB, and Dialog show a 50‑65% reduction in communication while maintaining competitive perplexity.
By Xinlu Zhang, Na Yan, Yang Su, Yansha Deng, Toktam Mahmoodi
arXiv:2607. 06979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables training shared models on private, on-device data, but production deployments remain constrained to slow, multi-day refresh cycles due to the complexity of coordinating massive client populations.
By Dhruv Garg, Neha Lakhani, Debopam Sanyal, Myungjin Lee, Alexey Tumanov, Ada Gavrilovska
arXiv:2607. 01366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) research often depends on many small but consequential algorithmic choices: optimizer variants, server aggregation rules, local training schedules, normalization, regularization, and model architecture.
By Holger R. Roth, Ziyue Xu, Chester Chen, Daguang Xu, Peter Cnudde, Andrew Feng
arXiv:2607. 11889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models trained on unrestricted internet corpora inevitably embed information from the future, introducing lookahead bias that compromises the validity of backtests and causal inference in finance and the social sciences.
By Bryan Kelly, Semyon Malamud, Johannes Schwab, Teng Andrea Xu