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most citedBreaking the Memory Wall for Heterogeneous Federated Learning via Model Splitting

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15 papers

cs.IR2026

Learning Marginal Viewpoint Utility for Budgeted Evidence Selection in RAG

Yiyang Duan, Ziqi Yu, Tiantong Wu +2

Retrieval-augmented generation over multi-viewpoint queries must preserve distinct answers and positions from the retrieved evidence while operating under a fixed context budget. W…

cs.AI2026

CoEM: Empowering Long-Context Reasoning with Commit-on-Evidence Memory

Jingguang Li, Yebo Wu, Zuyi Guo +7

Long-context reasoning is essential for complex and long-horizon tasks, yet the performance of large language models (LLMs) degrades as context length increases. Recent approaches…

cs.CV2026

Spotlight and Shadow: Attention-Guided Dual-Anchor Introspective Decoding for MLLM Hallucination Mitigation

Yebo Wu, Han Jin, Zhijiang Guo +1

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities yet continue to suffer from hallucination, where generated text contradicts visual cont…

cs.DC2026

Beyond End-to-End: Dynamic Chain Optimization for Private LLM Adaptation on the Edge

Yebo Wu, Jingguang Li, Chunlin Tian +3

Federated fine-tuning enables privacy-preserving LLM adaptation but faces a critical bottleneck: the disparity between LLMs' high memory demands and edge devices' limited capacity.…

cs.CL2026

TSEmbed: Unlocking Task Scaling in Universal Multimodal Embeddings

Yebo Wu, Feng Liu, Ziwei Xie +4

Despite the exceptional reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), their adaptation into universal embedding models is significantly impeded by task confli…

cs.DC2026

Floe: Federated Specialization for Real-Time LLM-SLM Inference

Chunlin Tian, Kahou Tam, Yebo Wu +4

Deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-time systems remains challenging due to their substantial computational demands and privacy concerns. We propose Floe, a hybrid feder…

cs.DC2025

Elastic Mixture of Rank-Wise Experts for Knowledge Reuse in Federated Fine-Tuning

Yebo Wu, Jingguang Li, Zhijiang Guo +1

Federated fine-tuning offers a promising solution for adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to downstream tasks while safeguarding data privacy. However, its high computational and…

cs.DC2025

Memory-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models via Layer Pruning

Yebo Wu, Jingguang Li, Chunlin Tian +2

Federated fine-tuning enables privacy-preserving Large Language Model (LLM) adaptation, but its high memory cost limits participation from resource-constrained devices. We propose…

cs.LG2025

Learning Like Humans: Resource-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning through Cognitive Developmental Stages

Yebo Wu, Jingguang Li, Zhijiang Guo +1

Federated fine-tuning enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to adapt to downstream tasks while preserving data privacy, but its resource-intensive nature limits deployment on edge d…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

A Survey on Federated Fine-tuning of Large Language Models

Yebo Wu, Chunlin Tian, Jingguang Li +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive success across various tasks. Integrating LLMs with Federated Learning (FL), a paradigm known as FedLLM, offers a promisin…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

Breaking the Memory Wall for Heterogeneous Federated Learning via Model Splitting

Chunlin Tian, Li Li, Kahou Tam +2

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple devices to collaboratively train a shared model while preserving data privacy. Ever-increasing model complexity coupled with limited memory…

cs.LG2024

Heterogeneity-Aware Coordination for Federated Learning via Stitching Pre-trained blocks

Shichen Zhan, Yebo Wu, Chunlin Tian +2

Federated learning (FL) coordinates multiple devices to collaboratively train a shared model while preserving data privacy. However, large memory footprint and high energy consumpt…

cs.DC2024

Heterogeneity-Aware Memory Efficient Federated Learning via Progressive Layer Freezing

Wu Yebo, Li Li, Tian Chunlin +4

In this paper, we propose SmartFreeze, a framework that effectively reduces the memory footprint by conducting the training in a progressive manner. Instead of updating the full mo…

cs.DC2024

Bridging Memory Gaps: Scaling Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Clients

Yebo Wu, Jingguang Li, Chunlin Tian +3

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared model while preserving data privacy. However, the high memory demand during model training severe…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

Breaking the Memory Wall for Heterogeneous Federated Learning via Progressive Training

Yebo Wu, Li Li, Chengzhong Xu

This paper presents ProFL, a new framework that effectively addresses the memory constraints in FL. Rather than updating the full model during local training, ProFL partitions the…