How Robust is Federated Learning to Communication Error? A Comparison Study Between Uplink and Downlink Channels

no code implementations • 25 Oct 2023 • Linping Qu, Shenghui Song, Chi-Ying Tsui, Yuyi Mao

It is also shown that the uplink communication in FL can tolerate a higher bit error rate (BER) than downlink communication, and this difference is quantified by a proposed formula.

Federated Learning Privacy Preserving

FedDQ: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning with Descending Quantization

no code implementations • 5 Oct 2021 • Linping Qu, Shenghui Song, Chi-Ying Tsui

Experimental results show that the proposed descending quantization scheme can save up to 65. 2% of the communicated bit volume and up to 68% of the communication rounds, when compared with existing schemes.

Federated Learning Model Compression +2