@article{refprotoflcommunicationefficientfederate,
  title = {RefProtoFL: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via External-Referenced Prototype Alignment},
  author = {Hongyue Wu and Hangyu Li and Guodong Fan and Haoran Zhu and Shizhan Chen and Zhiyong Feng},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2601.14746},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14746},
}