arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

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.

By Krishnendu S. Tharakan, Carlo Fischione
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