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cs.DC2026

Scaling Synthetic-Image Pre-Training for Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Vision Models

Qianpiao Ma, Xiaozhu Song, Junlong Zhou +3

Federated fine-tuning (FedFT) enables adapting pre-trained large vision models (LVMs) on distributed, privacy-sensitive devices, while its practical deployment is hindered by three…

cs.DC2026

Bandwidth-Aware and Cost-Efficient Pipeline Parallel Scheduling in Geo-Distributed LLM Training

Han Zhang, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu

The rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs) has made geographically distributed training necessary due to GPU scarcity within a single cloud region. In such cross-region se…

cs.DC2025

Towards Communication-Efficient Decentralized Federated Graph Learning over Non-IID Data

Shilong Wang, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu +3

Decentralized Federated Graph Learning (DFGL) overcomes potential bottlenecks of the parameter server in FGL by establishing a peer-to-peer (P2P) communication network among worker…

cs.DC2025

Air-FedGA: A Grouping Asynchronous Federated Learning Mechanism Exploiting Over-the-air Computation

Qianpiao Ma, Junlong Zhou, Xiangpeng Hou +4

Federated learning (FL) is a new paradigm to train AI models over distributed edge devices (i.e., workers) using their local data, while confronting various challenges including co…

cs.DC2025

FedQuad: Adaptive Layer-wise LoRA Deployment and Activation Quantization for Federated Fine-Tuning

Rukuo Li, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu +1

Federated fine-tuning (FedFT) provides an effective paradigm for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) in privacy-sensitive scenarios. However, practical deployment remains chal…

cs.DC2025

Collaborative Speculative Inference for Efficient LLM Inference Serving

Luyao Gao, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu +3

Speculative inference is a promising paradigm employing small speculative models (SSMs) as drafters to generate draft tokens, which are subsequently verified in parallel by the tar…

cs.DC2024

Adaptive Parameter-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning on Heterogeneous Devices

Jun Liu, Yunming Liao, Hongli Xu +3

Federated fine-tuning (FedFT) has been proposed to fine-tune the pre-trained language models in a distributed manner. However, there are two critical challenges for efficient FedFT…

cs.DC2024

Accelerating End-Cloud Collaborative Inference via Near Bubble-free Pipeline Optimization

Luyao Gao, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu +3

End-cloud collaboration offers a promising strategy to enhance the Quality of Service (QoS) in DNN inference by offloading portions of the inference workload from end devices to cl…

cs.DC2024

Many Hands Make Light Work: Accelerating Edge Inference via Multi-Client Collaborative Caching

Wenyi Liang, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu +2

Edge inference is a technology that enables real-time data processing and analysis on clients near the data source. To ensure compliance with the Service-Level Objectives (SLOs), s…

cs.DC2023

Heroes: Lightweight Federated Learning with Neural Composition and Adaptive Local Update in Heterogeneous Edge Networks

Jiaming Yan, Jianchun Liu, Shilong Wang +3

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train models without exposing their private data. However, it is difficult to implement efficient FL due to l…