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| author | Venkatesh, Vinay Kamanuru, Vamsidhar R Kumar, Lav Kothari, Nikita |
| author_facet | Venkatesh, Vinay Kamanuru, Vamsidhar R Kumar, Lav Kothari, Nikita |
| contents | This paper proposes Edge-FIT (Federated Instruction Tuning on the Edge), a scalable framework for Federated Instruction Tuning (FIT) of Large Language Models (LLMs). Traditional Federated Learning (TFL) methods, like FedAvg, fail when confronted with the massive parameter size of LLMs [3], [6]. Our Edge-FIT framework combines federated learning with 4-bit Quantized Low-Rank Adaptation (QLORA), mitigating the core issues of communication and computational overhead. We demonstrate this by filtering the general-purpose Databricks Dolly 15k dataset for the IoT domain. Experimental results show the Edge-FIT tuned Llama 2(7B) achieves an F1-Score of 0.89. We also demonstrate a viable trade-off using the 3.8B Phi-3-mini model, validating Edge-FIT as a scalable framework for decentralized LLM deployment on home compute gateways. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Edge-FIT: Federated Instruction Tuning of Quantized LLMs for Privacy-Preserving Smart Home Environments Venkatesh, Vinay Kamanuru, Vamsidhar R Kumar, Lav Kothari, Nikita Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence This paper proposes Edge-FIT (Federated Instruction Tuning on the Edge), a scalable framework for Federated Instruction Tuning (FIT) of Large Language Models (LLMs). Traditional Federated Learning (TFL) methods, like FedAvg, fail when confronted with the massive parameter size of LLMs [3], [6]. Our Edge-FIT framework combines federated learning with 4-bit Quantized Low-Rank Adaptation (QLORA), mitigating the core issues of communication and computational overhead. We demonstrate this by filtering the general-purpose Databricks Dolly 15k dataset for the IoT domain. Experimental results show the Edge-FIT tuned Llama 2(7B) achieves an F1-Score of 0.89. We also demonstrate a viable trade-off using the 3.8B Phi-3-mini model, validating Edge-FIT as a scalable framework for decentralized LLM deployment on home compute gateways. |
| title | Edge-FIT: Federated Instruction Tuning of Quantized LLMs for Privacy-Preserving Smart Home Environments |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03284 |