Vertical Federated Learning: Challenges, Methodologies and Experiments

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Auteurs principaux: Wei, Kang, Li, Jun, Ma, Chuan, Ding, Ming, Wei, Sha, Wu, Fan, Chen, Guihai, Ranbaduge, Thilina
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author Wei, Kang
Li, Jun
Ma, Chuan
Ding, Ming
Wei, Sha
Wu, Fan
Chen, Guihai
Ranbaduge, Thilina
author_facet Wei, Kang
Li, Jun
Ma, Chuan
Ding, Ming
Wei, Sha
Wu, Fan
Chen, Guihai
Ranbaduge, Thilina
contents Recently, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed machine learning (ML) technology, owing to the advancing computational and sensing capacities of end-user devices, however with the increasing concerns on users' privacy. As a special architecture in FL, vertical FL (VFL) is capable of constructing a hyper ML model by embracing sub-models from different clients. These sub-models are trained locally by vertically partitioned data with distinct attributes. Therefore, the design of VFL is fundamentally different from that of conventional FL, raising new and unique research issues. In this paper, we aim to discuss key challenges in VFL with effective solutions, and conduct experiments on real-life datasets to shed light on these issues. Specifically, we first propose a general framework on VFL, and highlight the key differences between VFL and conventional FL. Then, we discuss research challenges rooted in VFL systems under four aspects, i.e., security and privacy risks, expensive computation and communication costs, possible structural damage caused by model splitting, and system heterogeneity. Afterwards, we develop solutions to addressing the aforementioned challenges, and conduct extensive experiments to showcase the effectiveness of our proposed solutions.
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spellingShingle Vertical Federated Learning: Challenges, Methodologies and Experiments
Wei, Kang
Li, Jun
Ma, Chuan
Ding, Ming
Wei, Sha
Wu, Fan
Chen, Guihai
Ranbaduge, Thilina
Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Recently, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising distributed machine learning (ML) technology, owing to the advancing computational and sensing capacities of end-user devices, however with the increasing concerns on users' privacy. As a special architecture in FL, vertical FL (VFL) is capable of constructing a hyper ML model by embracing sub-models from different clients. These sub-models are trained locally by vertically partitioned data with distinct attributes. Therefore, the design of VFL is fundamentally different from that of conventional FL, raising new and unique research issues. In this paper, we aim to discuss key challenges in VFL with effective solutions, and conduct experiments on real-life datasets to shed light on these issues. Specifically, we first propose a general framework on VFL, and highlight the key differences between VFL and conventional FL. Then, we discuss research challenges rooted in VFL systems under four aspects, i.e., security and privacy risks, expensive computation and communication costs, possible structural damage caused by model splitting, and system heterogeneity. Afterwards, we develop solutions to addressing the aforementioned challenges, and conduct extensive experiments to showcase the effectiveness of our proposed solutions.
title Vertical Federated Learning: Challenges, Methodologies and Experiments
topic Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04309