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# Device Scheduling and Update Aggregation Policies for Asynchronous Federated Learning

@article{Hu2021DeviceSA,
title={Device Scheduling and Update Aggregation Policies for Asynchronous Federated Learning},
author={Chung-Hsuan Hu and Zheng Chen and Erik G. Larsson},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2107.11415}
}
• Chung-Hsuan Hu
• Published 2021
• Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics
• ArXiv
Federated Learning (FL) is a newly emerged decentralized machine learning (ML) framework that combines ondevice local training with server-based model synchronization to train a centralized ML model over distributed nodes. In this paper, we propose an asynchronous FL framework with periodic aggregation to eliminate the straggler issue in FL systems. For the proposed model, we investigate several device scheduling and update aggregation policies and compare their performances when the devices… Expand
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