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most citedAccelerating Asynchronous Federated Learning Convergence via Opportunistic Mobile Relaying

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21 papers

cs.LG2026

Breaking the Structural Identity: Personalized Federated LoRA Fine-tuning under Rank Heterogeneity

Lei Wang, Jieming Bian, Letian Zhang +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their adaptation to privacy-sensitive, distributed datasets remains a challenge. While Fed…

cs.LG2026

FedTreeLoRA: Reconciling Statistical and Functional Heterogeneity in Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning

Jieming Bian, Lei Wang, Letian Zhang +1

Federated Learning (FL) with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a standard for privacy-preserving LLM fine-tuning. However, existing personalized methods predominantly operated…

cs.LG2025

Adaptive LoRA Experts Allocation and Selection for Federated Fine-Tuning

Lei Wang, Jieming Bian, Letian Zhang +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various tasks, but fine-tuning them for domain-specific applications often requires substantial domain…

cs.LG2025

FedEL: Federated Elastic Learning for Heterogeneous Devices

Letian Zhang, Bo Chen, Jieming Bian +2

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed devices to collaboratively train machine learning models while maintaining data privacy. However, the heterogeneous hardware capabilitie…

cs.LG2025

Multimodal Federated Learning: A Survey through the Lens of Different FL Paradigms

Yuanzhe Peng, Jieming Bian, Lei Wang +2

Multimodal Federated Learning (MFL) lies at the intersection of two pivotal research areas: leveraging complementary information from multiple modalities to improve downstream infe…

cs.LG2025

A Survey on Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Foundation Models in Federated Learning

Jieming Bian, Yuanzhe Peng, Lei Wang +2

Foundation models have revolutionized artificial intelligence by providing robust, versatile architectures pre-trained on large-scale datasets. However, adapting these massive mode…

cs.LG2025

FedALT: Federated Fine-Tuning through Adaptive Local Training with Rest-of-World LoRA

Jieming Bian, Lei Wang, Letian Zhang +1

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) in federated settings enables privacy-preserving adaptation but suffers from cross-client interference due to model aggregation. Existing f…

cs.LG2024

LoRA-FAIR: Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning with Aggregation and Initialization Refinement

Jieming Bian, Lei Wang, Letian Zhang +1

Foundation models (FMs) achieve strong performance across diverse tasks with task-specific fine-tuning, yet full parameter fine-tuning is often computationally prohibitive for larg…

cs.LG2024

Prioritizing Modalities: Flexible Importance Scheduling in Federated Multimodal Learning

Jieming Bian, Lei Wang, Jie Xu

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that enables devices to collaboratively train models without sharing their local data, ensuring user privacy and…

quant-ph2024

Adaptive User-Centric Entanglement Routing in Quantum Data Networks

Lei Wang, Jieming Bian, Jie Xu

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) holds immense promise in harnessing the potential of quantum computing by interconnecting multiple small quantum computers (QCs) through a quant…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Taming Cross-Domain Representation Variance in Federated Prototype Learning with Heterogeneous Data Domains

Lei Wang, Jieming Bian, Letian Zhang +2

Federated learning (FL) allows collaborative machine learning training without sharing private data. While most FL methods assume identical data domains across clients, real-world…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

FedMM: Federated Multi-Modal Learning with Modality Heterogeneity in Computational Pathology

Yuanzhe Peng, Jieming Bian, Jie Xu

The fusion of complementary multimodal information is crucial in computational pathology for accurate diagnostics. However, existing multimodal learning approaches necessitate acce…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Federated Learning with Instance-Dependent Noisy Label

Lei Wang, Jieming Bian, Jie Xu

Federated learning (FL) with noisy labels poses a significant challenge. Existing methods designed for handling noisy labels in centralized learning tend to lose their effectivenes…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

CAFE: Carbon-Aware Federated Learning in Geographically Distributed Data Centers

Jieming Bian, Lei Wang, Shaolei Ren +1

Training large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models demands significant computational power and energy, leading to increased carbon footprint with potential environmental repe…

cs.DC2023★ 4 cited

Joint Client Assignment and UAV Route Planning for Indirect-Communication Federated Learning

Jieming Bian, Cong Shen, Jie Xu

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning approach that enables the creation of shared models for powerful applications while allowing data to remain on devices. This approach…

cs.DC2023★ 2 cited

Accelerating Hybrid Federated Learning Convergence under Partial Participation

Jieming Bian, Lei Wang, Kun Yang +2

Over the past few years, Federated Learning (FL) has become a popular distributed machine learning paradigm. FL involves a group of clients with decentralized data who collaborate…

cs.LG2023

On the Local Cache Update Rules in Streaming Federated Learning

Heqiang Wang, Jieming Bian, Jie Xu

In this study, we address the emerging field of Streaming Federated Learning (SFL) and propose local cache update rules to manage dynamic data distributions and limited cache capac…

cs.DC2023

Federated Learning via Indirect Server-Client Communications

Jieming Bian, Cong Shen, Jie Xu

Federated Learning (FL) is a communication-efficient and privacy-preserving distributed machine learning framework that has gained a significant amount of research attention recent…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

Accelerating Asynchronous Federated Learning Convergence via Opportunistic Mobile Relaying

Jieming Bian, Jie Xu

This paper presents a study on asynchronous Federated Learning (FL) in a mobile network setting. The majority of FL algorithms assume that communication between clients and the ser…

stat.ML2021

Maillard Sampling: Boltzmann Exploration Done Optimally

Jie Bian, Kwang-Sung Jun

The PhD thesis of Maillard (2013) presents a rather obscure algorithm for the -armed bandit problem. This less-known algorithm, which we call Maillard sampling (MS), computes th…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

FedSEAL: Semi-Supervised Federated Learning with Self-Ensemble Learning and Negative Learning

Jieming Bian, Zhu Fu, Jie Xu

Federated learning (FL), a popular decentralized and privacy-preserving machine learning (FL) framework, has received extensive research attention in recent years. The majority of…