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Hauptverfasser: Zou, Luyao, Oh, Hayoung, Thwal, Chu Myaet, Adhikary, Apurba, Hong, Seohyeon, Han, Zhu
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09727
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author Zou, Luyao
Oh, Hayoung
Thwal, Chu Myaet
Adhikary, Apurba
Hong, Seohyeon
Han, Zhu
author_facet Zou, Luyao
Oh, Hayoung
Thwal, Chu Myaet
Adhikary, Apurba
Hong, Seohyeon
Han, Zhu
contents With the development of wireless network, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-native Radio Access Network (RAN) have attracted significant attention. Particularly, the integration of AI-RAN and MEC is envisioned to transform network efficiency and responsiveness. Therefore, it is valuable to investigate AI-RAN enabled MEC system. Federated learning (FL) nowadays is emerging as a promising approach for AI-RAN enabled MEC system, in which edge devices are enabled to train a global model cooperatively without revealing their raw data. However, conventional FL encounters the challenge in processing the non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data. Single prototype obtained by averaging the embedding vectors per class can be employed in FL to handle the data heterogeneity issue. Nevertheless, this may result in the loss of useful information owing to the average operation. Therefore, in this paper, a multi-prototype-guided federated knowledge distillation (MP-FedKD) approach is proposed. Particularly, self-knowledge distillation is integrated into FL to deal with the non-IID issue. To cope with the problem of information loss caused by single prototype-based strategy, multi-prototype strategy is adopted, where we present a conditional hierarchical agglomerative clustering (CHAC) approach and a prototype alignment scheme. Additionally, we design a novel loss function (called LEMGP loss) for each local client, where the relationship between global prototypes and local embedding will be focused. Extensive experiments over multiple datasets with various non-IID settings showcase that the proposed MP-FedKD approach outperforms the considered state-of-the-art baselines regarding accuracy, average accuracy and errors (RMSE and MAE).
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spellingShingle A Multi-Prototype-Guided Federated Knowledge Distillation Approach in AI-RAN Enabled Multi-Access Edge Computing System
Zou, Luyao
Oh, Hayoung
Thwal, Chu Myaet
Adhikary, Apurba
Hong, Seohyeon
Han, Zhu
Machine Learning
With the development of wireless network, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-native Radio Access Network (RAN) have attracted significant attention. Particularly, the integration of AI-RAN and MEC is envisioned to transform network efficiency and responsiveness. Therefore, it is valuable to investigate AI-RAN enabled MEC system. Federated learning (FL) nowadays is emerging as a promising approach for AI-RAN enabled MEC system, in which edge devices are enabled to train a global model cooperatively without revealing their raw data. However, conventional FL encounters the challenge in processing the non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data. Single prototype obtained by averaging the embedding vectors per class can be employed in FL to handle the data heterogeneity issue. Nevertheless, this may result in the loss of useful information owing to the average operation. Therefore, in this paper, a multi-prototype-guided federated knowledge distillation (MP-FedKD) approach is proposed. Particularly, self-knowledge distillation is integrated into FL to deal with the non-IID issue. To cope with the problem of information loss caused by single prototype-based strategy, multi-prototype strategy is adopted, where we present a conditional hierarchical agglomerative clustering (CHAC) approach and a prototype alignment scheme. Additionally, we design a novel loss function (called LEMGP loss) for each local client, where the relationship between global prototypes and local embedding will be focused. Extensive experiments over multiple datasets with various non-IID settings showcase that the proposed MP-FedKD approach outperforms the considered state-of-the-art baselines regarding accuracy, average accuracy and errors (RMSE and MAE).
title A Multi-Prototype-Guided Federated Knowledge Distillation Approach in AI-RAN Enabled Multi-Access Edge Computing System
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09727