Federated Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning via Exploiting General Content and Personal Style

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Main Authors: Yang, Yuewei, Sun, Jingwei, Li, Ang, Li, Hai, Chen, Yiran
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author Yang, Yuewei
Sun, Jingwei
Li, Ang
Li, Hai
Chen, Yiran
author_facet Yang, Yuewei
Sun, Jingwei
Li, Ang
Li, Hai
Chen, Yiran
contents Discriminative unsupervised learning methods such as contrastive learning have demonstrated the ability to learn generalized visual representations on centralized data. It is nonetheless challenging to adapt such methods to a distributed system with unlabeled, private, and heterogeneous client data due to user styles and preferences. Federated learning enables multiple clients to collectively learn a global model without provoking any privacy breach between local clients. On the other hand, another direction of federated learning studies personalized methods to address the local heterogeneity. However, work on solving both generalization and personalization without labels in a decentralized setting remains unfamiliar. In this work, we propose a novel method, FedStyle, to learn a more generalized global model by infusing local style information with local content information for contrastive learning, and to learn more personalized local models by inducing local style information for downstream tasks. The style information is extracted by contrasting original local data with strongly augmented local data (Sobel filtered images). Through extensive experiments with linear evaluations in both IID and non-IID settings, we demonstrate that FedStyle outperforms both the generalization baseline methods and personalization baseline methods in a stylized decentralized setting. Through comprehensive ablations, we demonstrate our design of style infusion and stylized personalization improve performance significantly.
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spellingShingle Federated Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning via Exploiting General Content and Personal Style
Yang, Yuewei
Sun, Jingwei
Li, Ang
Li, Hai
Chen, Yiran
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Discriminative unsupervised learning methods such as contrastive learning have demonstrated the ability to learn generalized visual representations on centralized data. It is nonetheless challenging to adapt such methods to a distributed system with unlabeled, private, and heterogeneous client data due to user styles and preferences. Federated learning enables multiple clients to collectively learn a global model without provoking any privacy breach between local clients. On the other hand, another direction of federated learning studies personalized methods to address the local heterogeneity. However, work on solving both generalization and personalization without labels in a decentralized setting remains unfamiliar. In this work, we propose a novel method, FedStyle, to learn a more generalized global model by infusing local style information with local content information for contrastive learning, and to learn more personalized local models by inducing local style information for downstream tasks. The style information is extracted by contrasting original local data with strongly augmented local data (Sobel filtered images). Through extensive experiments with linear evaluations in both IID and non-IID settings, we demonstrate that FedStyle outperforms both the generalization baseline methods and personalization baseline methods in a stylized decentralized setting. Through comprehensive ablations, we demonstrate our design of style infusion and stylized personalization improve performance significantly.
title Federated Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning via Exploiting General Content and Personal Style
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06470