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Minnesota State University

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Enhancing Smart Farming Through Federated Learning: A Secure, Scalable, and Efficient Approach for AI-Driven Agriculture

Sep 15, 2025

Reconciling farm data privacy preservation with cross-domain collaborative modeling remains challenging in smart agriculture. Method: This paper proposes a lightweight federated learning framework tailored for heterogeneous farmland environments in Minnesota. It integrates transfer learning with a modified Federated Averaging (FedAvg) algorithm, enabling local model training on edge devices and uploading only encrypted gradient updates—never raw image data—to a central server. Dynamic client selection, sparse communication compression, and an edge-optimized lightweight CNN backbone further reduce bandwidth and computational overhead. Contribution/Results: Evaluated on multi-farm heterogeneous datasets, the framework achieves 92.3% accuracy in crop disease classification—only 1.2 percentage points below a centralized baseline—while reducing communication costs by 64%. To our knowledge, this is the first deployable federated crop disease detection solution that simultaneously ensures strong privacy guarantees, low resource dependency, and high generalization performance.

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Fine-Tuning Federated Learning-Based Intrusion Detection Systems for Transportation IoT

Feb 10, 2025

To address the challenges of resource constraints, privacy sensitivity, and real-time responsiveness in intrusion detection for vehicular edge devices within traffic-oriented IoT, this paper proposes a lightweight server-edge collaborative federated learning framework. Methodologically, it introduces a novel “pre-training–edge fine-tuning” hybrid paradigm, integrating model pruning and quantization, lightweight neural network architecture design, and a distributed secure evaluation protocol—ensuring data privacy while enabling efficient distributed deployment. Experimental results demonstrate a 42% reduction in memory footprint, a 75% decrease in training time, an intrusion detection system (IDS) accuracy of 99.2%, and less than 1.3% performance degradation at a scale of one thousand nodes. These outcomes significantly enhance scalability and practical applicability in resource-constrained vehicular edge environments.

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Enhancing Smart Farming Through Federated Learning: A Secure, Scalable, and Efficient Approach for AI-Driven Agriculture

Sep 15, 2025

Reconciling farm data privacy preservation with cross-domain collaborative modeling remains challenging in smart agriculture. Method: This paper proposes a lightweight federated learning framework tailored for heterogeneous farmland environments in Minnesota. It integrates transfer learning with a modified Federated Averaging (FedAvg) algorithm, enabling local model training on edge devices and uploading only encrypted gradient updates—never raw image data—to a central server. Dynamic client selection, sparse communication compression, and an edge-optimized lightweight CNN backbone further reduce bandwidth and computational overhead. Contribution/Results: Evaluated on multi-farm heterogeneous datasets, the framework achieves 92.3% accuracy in crop disease classification—only 1.2 percentage points below a centralized baseline—while reducing communication costs by 64%. To our knowledge, this is the first deployable federated crop disease detection solution that simultaneously ensures strong privacy guarantees, low resource dependency, and high generalization performance.

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Fine-Tuning Federated Learning-Based Intrusion Detection Systems for Transportation IoT

Feb 10, 2025

To address the challenges of resource constraints, privacy sensitivity, and real-time responsiveness in intrusion detection for vehicular edge devices within traffic-oriented IoT, this paper proposes a lightweight server-edge collaborative federated learning framework. Methodologically, it introduces a novel “pre-training–edge fine-tuning” hybrid paradigm, integrating model pruning and quantization, lightweight neural network architecture design, and a distributed secure evaluation protocol—ensuring data privacy while enabling efficient distributed deployment. Experimental results demonstrate a 42% reduction in memory footprint, a 75% decrease in training time, an intrusion detection system (IDS) accuracy of 99.2%, and less than 1.3% performance degradation at a scale of one thousand nodes. These outcomes significantly enhance scalability and practical applicability in resource-constrained vehicular edge environments.

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