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Scalability and Performance Evaluation of Federated Learning Frameworks: A Comparative Analysis
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Efficiently Distributed Federated Learning
The paper introduces FastFederatedLearning (FFL), an open‑source federated learning framework written in C/C++ that prioritizes performance and customizability. FFL allows users to define arbitrary communication graphs between clients and servers, and it consistently outperforms Intel OpenFL with speedups of 2.5x to 3.69x across x86‑64, ARM‑v8, and RISC‑V platforms. Future plans include a Python wrapper and middleware for diverse communication backends, aiming to support dynamic, evolving federations as long‑term services.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27
Flower Hub: A Reproducible Benchmarking Platform for Federated Learning in Simulation and Deployment
Flower Hub is a platform that allows researchers to publish, discover, and run federated learning (FL) benchmarks in a reproducible way. It packages benchmarks as executable, versioned applications with standardized metadata, pinned dependencies, and explicit evaluation workflows, enabling the same benchmark to run in both simulation and real deployment environments. The platform includes a multi-domain benchmark suite covering cross-silo and cross-device settings in areas such as medical imaging, finance, legal instruction tuning, phishing detection, and audio tagging, and it supports system-aware reporting of runtime and communication metrics.
arXiv AI
Aug 17
Federated Prompt Learning: A Unified Framework, Empirical Analysis, and Future Directions
arXiv:2608. 13844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become core components of cloud-based intelligent services in academia and industry, yet their training and deployment are hindered by high computational costs, data centralization, and privacy concerns.
arXiv AI
5d ago
Accelerating Sharded Data Parallelism at Scale with Federated Learning
The paper proposes two hybrid algorithms, FL+FSDP and FL+HSDP, that combine sharded data parallelism with federated learning-style aggregations to reduce communication overhead in large-scale AI training. By partitioning GPUs into loosely‑coupled federation groups, the methods keep inter‑group traffic minimal while maintaining a bounded global batch size. Experiments on a Llama3.1 8B model trained on 512 A100 GPUs show up to 8.04× faster data processing and 4.48 lower evaluation perplexity compared to conventional sharded DP.
arXiv AI
Aug 18
FedImp: Enhancing Federated Learning Convergence with Impurity-Based Weighting
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 Machine Learning
Aug 4
Assessing the Impacts of Imperfect Datasets on Client Selections in Federated Learning
arXiv:2608. 02250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning framework where multiple clients perform local training and a server aggregates the locally updated models.