Demo: A Practical Testbed for Decentralized Federated Learning on Physical Edge Devices

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Hauptverfasser: Feng, Chao, Huber, Nicolas, Celdran, Alberto Huertas, Bovet, Gerome, Stiller, Burkhard
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Feng, Chao
Huber, Nicolas
Celdran, Alberto Huertas
Bovet, Gerome
Stiller, Burkhard
author_facet Feng, Chao
Huber, Nicolas
Celdran, Alberto Huertas
Bovet, Gerome
Stiller, Burkhard
contents Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, preserving participant privacy. Decentralized FL (DFL) eliminates reliance on a central server, mitigating the single point of failure inherent in the traditional FL paradigm, while introducing deployment challenges on resource-constrained devices. To evaluate real-world applicability, this work designs and deploys a physical testbed using edge devices such as Raspberry Pi and Jetson Nano. The testbed is built upon a DFL training platform, NEBULA, and extends it with a power monitoring module to measure energy consumption during training. Experiments across multiple datasets show that model performance is influenced by the communication topology, with denser topologies leading to better outcomes in DFL settings.
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spellingShingle Demo: A Practical Testbed for Decentralized Federated Learning on Physical Edge Devices
Feng, Chao
Huber, Nicolas
Celdran, Alberto Huertas
Bovet, Gerome
Stiller, Burkhard
Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, preserving participant privacy. Decentralized FL (DFL) eliminates reliance on a central server, mitigating the single point of failure inherent in the traditional FL paradigm, while introducing deployment challenges on resource-constrained devices. To evaluate real-world applicability, this work designs and deploys a physical testbed using edge devices such as Raspberry Pi and Jetson Nano. The testbed is built upon a DFL training platform, NEBULA, and extends it with a power monitoring module to measure energy consumption during training. Experiments across multiple datasets show that model performance is influenced by the communication topology, with denser topologies leading to better outcomes in DFL settings.
title Demo: A Practical Testbed for Decentralized Federated Learning on Physical Edge Devices
topic Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08033