Resource-Constrained Decentralized Federated Learning via Personalized Event-Triggering

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Hauptverfasser: Zehtabi, Shahryar, Hosseinalipour, Seyyedali, Brinton, Christopher G.
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author Zehtabi, Shahryar
Hosseinalipour, Seyyedali
Brinton, Christopher G.
author_facet Zehtabi, Shahryar
Hosseinalipour, Seyyedali
Brinton, Christopher G.
contents Federated learning (FL) is a popular technique for distributing machine learning (ML) across a set of edge devices. In this paper, we study fully decentralized FL, where in addition to devices conducting training locally, they carry out model aggregations via cooperative consensus formation over device-to-device (D2D) networks. We introduce asynchronous, event-triggered communications among the devices to handle settings where access to a central server is not feasible. To account for the inherent resource heterogeneity and statistical diversity challenges in FL, we define personalized communication triggering conditions at each device that weigh the change in local model parameters against the available local network resources. We theoretically recover the $O(\ln{k} / \sqrt{k})$ convergence rate to the globally optimal model of decentralized gradient descent (DGD) methods in the setup of our methodology. We provide our convergence guarantees for the last iterates of models, under relaxed graph connectivity and data heterogeneity assumptions compared with the existing literature. To do so, we demonstrate a $B$-connected information flow guarantee in the presence of sporadic communications over the time-varying D2D graph. Our subsequent numerical evaluations demonstrate that our methodology obtains substantial improvements in convergence speed and/or communication savings compared to existing decentralized FL baselines.
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spellingShingle Resource-Constrained Decentralized Federated Learning via Personalized Event-Triggering
Zehtabi, Shahryar
Hosseinalipour, Seyyedali
Brinton, Christopher G.
Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Optimization and Control
Federated learning (FL) is a popular technique for distributing machine learning (ML) across a set of edge devices. In this paper, we study fully decentralized FL, where in addition to devices conducting training locally, they carry out model aggregations via cooperative consensus formation over device-to-device (D2D) networks. We introduce asynchronous, event-triggered communications among the devices to handle settings where access to a central server is not feasible. To account for the inherent resource heterogeneity and statistical diversity challenges in FL, we define personalized communication triggering conditions at each device that weigh the change in local model parameters against the available local network resources. We theoretically recover the $O(\ln{k} / \sqrt{k})$ convergence rate to the globally optimal model of decentralized gradient descent (DGD) methods in the setup of our methodology. We provide our convergence guarantees for the last iterates of models, under relaxed graph connectivity and data heterogeneity assumptions compared with the existing literature. To do so, we demonstrate a $B$-connected information flow guarantee in the presence of sporadic communications over the time-varying D2D graph. Our subsequent numerical evaluations demonstrate that our methodology obtains substantial improvements in convergence speed and/or communication savings compared to existing decentralized FL baselines.
title Resource-Constrained Decentralized Federated Learning via Personalized Event-Triggering
topic Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12640