Trading Payload for Comparable Accuracy: A Duplicate-Controlled, Communication-Aware Federated Study of Brain Tumor MRI Backbones
N. Alam, et al. IEEE International Conference on Computing, Applications and Systems (COMPAS), Oct 2026. First author, presented.
82.8% less communication: EfficientNet-B0 against ResNet50, with no significant accuracy loss.
Federated learning on brain tumor MRI, evaluated on duplicate-audited, leakage-controlled splits.