AI RESEARCH
Scalar Federated Learning for Linear Quadratic Regulator
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2604.05088v1 Announce Type: cross We propose ScalarFedLQR, a communication-efficient federated algorithm for model-free learning of a common policy in linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control of heterogeneous agents. The method builds on a decomposed projected gradient mechanism, in which each agent communicates only a scalar projection of a local zeroth-order gradient estimate. The server aggregates these scalar messages to reconstruct a global descent direction, reducing per-agent uplink communication from O(d) to O(1), independent of the policy dimension.