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Hauptverfasser: Reza, Md Farhamdur, Jahani, Reza, Jin, Richeng, Dai, Huaiyu
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Reza, Md Farhamdur
Jahani, Reza
Jin, Richeng
Dai, Huaiyu
author_facet Reza, Md Farhamdur
Jahani, Reza
Jin, Richeng
Dai, Huaiyu
contents Decentralized federated learning (DFL) has attracted significant attention due to its scalability and independence from a central server. In practice, some participating clients can be mobile, yet the impact of user mobility on DFL performance remains largely unexplored, despite its potential to facilitate communication and model convergence. In this work, we demonstrate that introducing a small fraction of mobile clients, even with random movement, can significantly improve the accuracy of DFL by facilitating information flow. To further enhance performance, we propose novel distribution-aware mobility patterns, where mobile clients strategically navigate the network, leveraging knowledge of data distributions and static client locations. The proposed moving strategies mitigate the impact of data heterogeneity and boost learning convergence. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of induced mobility in DFL and demonstrate the superiority of our proposed mobility patterns over random movement.
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spellingShingle Distribution-Aware Mobility-Assisted Decentralized Federated Learning
Reza, Md Farhamdur
Jahani, Reza
Jin, Richeng
Dai, Huaiyu
Machine Learning
Decentralized federated learning (DFL) has attracted significant attention due to its scalability and independence from a central server. In practice, some participating clients can be mobile, yet the impact of user mobility on DFL performance remains largely unexplored, despite its potential to facilitate communication and model convergence. In this work, we demonstrate that introducing a small fraction of mobile clients, even with random movement, can significantly improve the accuracy of DFL by facilitating information flow. To further enhance performance, we propose novel distribution-aware mobility patterns, where mobile clients strategically navigate the network, leveraging knowledge of data distributions and static client locations. The proposed moving strategies mitigate the impact of data heterogeneity and boost learning convergence. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of induced mobility in DFL and demonstrate the superiority of our proposed mobility patterns over random movement.
title Distribution-Aware Mobility-Assisted Decentralized Federated Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18866