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Federated learning over physical channels: adaptive algorithms with near-optimal guarantees

Published: September 2, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2509.02538v1

By: Rui Zhang, Wenlong Mou

Potential Business Impact:

Lets computers learn from phones without sending data.

Business Areas:
NFC Hardware

In federated learning, communication cost can be significantly reduced by transmitting the information over the air through physical channels. In this paper, we propose a new class of adaptive federated stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms that can be implemented over physical channels, taking into account both channel noise and hardware constraints. We establish theoretical guarantees for the proposed algorithms, demonstrating convergence rates that are adaptive to the stochastic gradient noise level. We also demonstrate the practical effectiveness of our algorithms through simulation studies with deep learning models.

Page Count
27 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Machine Learning (CS)