Federated robot learning preserves local expertise while cutting communication costs

RoboFL assembles locally trained adapters as routed experts, enabling institutions to jointly improve robot policies without pooling their interaction data.

Top University
Rongyu Zhang · Ruizhi Fan · Yunfan Lou · Hengyu Fang · Shenli Zheng · Chenrui Wu · +5 more

Nanjing University · Peking University · Simon Fraser University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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The authors developed MoSAIC, a mixture-of-experts architecture in which parameter-efficient LoRA adapters trained by individual clients become expert branches in a server model.

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From Nanjing University and 3 others

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A federated method assembling local LoRA adapters as server MoE experts outperforms centralized PEFT by 12.23% with 86.81% less communication.

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