Robust Segmented Analog Broadcast Design to Accelerate Wireless Federated Learning
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| author | Zhang, Chong Liang, Ben Dong, Min Afana, Ali Ahmed, Yahia |
| author_facet | Zhang, Chong Liang, Ben Dong, Min Afana, Ali Ahmed, Yahia |
| contents | We consider downlink broadcast design for federated learning (FL) in a wireless network with imperfect channel state information (CSI). Aiming to reduce transmission latency, we propose a segmented analog broadcast (SegAB) scheme, where the parameter server, hosted by a multi-antenna base station, partitions the global model parameter vector into segments and transmits multiple parameters from these segments simultaneously over a common downlink channel. We formulate the SegAB transmission and reception processes to characterize FL training convergence, capturing the effects of downlink beamforming and imperfect CSI. To maximize the FL training convergence rate, we establish an upper bound on the expected model optimality gap and show that it can be minimized separately over the training rounds in online optimization, without requiring knowledge of the future channel states. We solve the per-round problem to achieve robust downlink beamforming, by minimizing the worst-case objective via an epigraph representation and a feasibility subproblem that ensures monotone convergence. Simulation with standard classification tasks under typical wireless network setting shows that the proposed SegAB substantially outperforms conventional full-model per-parameter broadcast and other alternatives. |
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| spellingShingle | Robust Segmented Analog Broadcast Design to Accelerate Wireless Federated Learning Zhang, Chong Liang, Ben Dong, Min Afana, Ali Ahmed, Yahia Information Theory We consider downlink broadcast design for federated learning (FL) in a wireless network with imperfect channel state information (CSI). Aiming to reduce transmission latency, we propose a segmented analog broadcast (SegAB) scheme, where the parameter server, hosted by a multi-antenna base station, partitions the global model parameter vector into segments and transmits multiple parameters from these segments simultaneously over a common downlink channel. We formulate the SegAB transmission and reception processes to characterize FL training convergence, capturing the effects of downlink beamforming and imperfect CSI. To maximize the FL training convergence rate, we establish an upper bound on the expected model optimality gap and show that it can be minimized separately over the training rounds in online optimization, without requiring knowledge of the future channel states. We solve the per-round problem to achieve robust downlink beamforming, by minimizing the worst-case objective via an epigraph representation and a feasibility subproblem that ensures monotone convergence. Simulation with standard classification tasks under typical wireless network setting shows that the proposed SegAB substantially outperforms conventional full-model per-parameter broadcast and other alternatives. |
| title | Robust Segmented Analog Broadcast Design to Accelerate Wireless Federated Learning |
| topic | Information Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02701 |