3 papers
cs.DC2026
MODAIC: Coordinated Asynchrony for Decentralized Multimodal Learning
Yanhang Shi, Xiaoyu Wang, Houwei Cao +2
Multimodal decentralized learning enables collaboration across heterogeneous edge devices without sharing raw data, but differing modality sets create coupled computation and commu…
cs.LG2026
Stabilizing Decentralized Federated Fine-Tuning via Topology-Aware Alternating LoRA
Xiaoyu Wang, Xiaotian Li, Zhixiang Zhou +2
Decentralized federated learning (DFL), a serverless variant of federated learning, poses unique challenges for parameter-efficient fine-tuning due to the factorized structure of l…
cs.LG2026
PID-Guided Partial Alignment for Multimodal Decentralized Federated Learning
Yanhang Shi, Xiaoyu Wang, Houwei Cao +2
Multimodal decentralized federated learning (DFL) must support collaboration among agents that hold different modality subsets and often different model components, while operating…