Flexible Clustered Federated Learning for Client-Level Data Distribution Shift

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Hauptverfasser: Duan, Moming, Liu, Duo, Ji, Xinyuan, Wu, Yu, Liang, Liang, Chen, Xianzhang, Tan, Yujuan
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author Duan, Moming
Liu, Duo
Ji, Xinyuan
Wu, Yu
Liang, Liang
Chen, Xianzhang
Tan, Yujuan
author_facet Duan, Moming
Liu, Duo
Ji, Xinyuan
Wu, Yu
Liang, Liang
Chen, Xianzhang
Tan, Yujuan
contents Federated Learning (FL) enables the multiple participating devices to collaboratively contribute to a global neural network model while keeping the training data locally. Unlike the centralized training setting, the non-IID, imbalanced (statistical heterogeneity) and distribution shifted training data of FL is distributed in the federated network, which will increase the divergences between the local models and the global model, further degrading performance. In this paper, we propose a flexible clustered federated learning (CFL) framework named FlexCFL, in which we 1) group the training of clients based on the similarities between the clients' optimization directions for lower training divergence; 2) implement an efficient newcomer device cold start mechanism for framework scalability and practicality; 3) flexibly migrate clients to meet the challenge of client-level data distribution shift. FlexCFL can achieve improvements by dividing joint optimization into groups of sub-optimization and can strike a balance between accuracy and communication efficiency in the distribution shift environment. The convergence and complexity are analyzed to demonstrate the efficiency of FlexCFL. We also evaluate FlexCFL on several open datasets and made comparisons with related CFL frameworks. The results show that FlexCFL can significantly improve absolute test accuracy by +10.6% on FEMNIST compared to FedAvg, +3.5% on FashionMNIST compared to FedProx, +8.4% on MNIST compared to FeSEM. The experiment results show that FlexCFL is also communication efficient in the distribution shift environment.
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spellingShingle Flexible Clustered Federated Learning for Client-Level Data Distribution Shift
Duan, Moming
Liu, Duo
Ji, Xinyuan
Wu, Yu
Liang, Liang
Chen, Xianzhang
Tan, Yujuan
Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Federated Learning (FL) enables the multiple participating devices to collaboratively contribute to a global neural network model while keeping the training data locally. Unlike the centralized training setting, the non-IID, imbalanced (statistical heterogeneity) and distribution shifted training data of FL is distributed in the federated network, which will increase the divergences between the local models and the global model, further degrading performance. In this paper, we propose a flexible clustered federated learning (CFL) framework named FlexCFL, in which we 1) group the training of clients based on the similarities between the clients' optimization directions for lower training divergence; 2) implement an efficient newcomer device cold start mechanism for framework scalability and practicality; 3) flexibly migrate clients to meet the challenge of client-level data distribution shift. FlexCFL can achieve improvements by dividing joint optimization into groups of sub-optimization and can strike a balance between accuracy and communication efficiency in the distribution shift environment. The convergence and complexity are analyzed to demonstrate the efficiency of FlexCFL. We also evaluate FlexCFL on several open datasets and made comparisons with related CFL frameworks. The results show that FlexCFL can significantly improve absolute test accuracy by +10.6% on FEMNIST compared to FedAvg, +3.5% on FashionMNIST compared to FedProx, +8.4% on MNIST compared to FeSEM. The experiment results show that FlexCFL is also communication efficient in the distribution shift environment.
title Flexible Clustered Federated Learning for Client-Level Data Distribution Shift
topic Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09749