arxivcs.DCcs.LG2026-07-20
AutoEncoder-Compressed Parallel Split Learning for Pre-trained Model Fine-Tuning
Bas Meuwissen, Vasileios Tsouvalas, Nirvana Meratnia
Distributed Fine-Tuning (DFT) of large-scale Foundation Models (FMs) on resource-constrained edge devices is limited by local compute constraints and communication overhead. Parallel Split Learning (PSL) reduces client-side computation by keeping few model layers on each client a…