Dynamic Regularized Sharpness Aware Minimization in Federated Learning: Approaching Global Consistency and Smooth Landscape

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Main Authors: Sun, Yan, Shen, Li, Chen, Shixiang, Ding, Liang, Tao, Dacheng
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author Sun, Yan
Shen, Li
Chen, Shixiang
Ding, Liang
Tao, Dacheng
author_facet Sun, Yan
Shen, Li
Chen, Shixiang
Ding, Liang
Tao, Dacheng
contents In federated learning (FL), a cluster of local clients are chaired under the coordination of the global server and cooperatively train one model with privacy protection. Due to the multiple local updates and the isolated non-iid dataset, clients are prone to overfit into their own optima, which extremely deviates from the global objective and significantly undermines the performance. Most previous works only focus on enhancing the consistency between the local and global objectives to alleviate this prejudicial client drifts from the perspective of the optimization view, whose performance would be prominently deteriorated on the high heterogeneity. In this work, we propose a novel and general algorithm {\ttfamily FedSMOO} by jointly considering the optimization and generalization targets to efficiently improve the performance in FL. Concretely, {\ttfamily FedSMOO} adopts a dynamic regularizer to guarantee the local optima towards the global objective, which is meanwhile revised by the global Sharpness Aware Minimization (SAM) optimizer to search for the consistent flat minima. Our theoretical analysis indicates that {\ttfamily FedSMOO} achieves fast $\mathcal{O}(1/T)$ convergence rate with low generalization bound. Extensive numerical studies are conducted on the real-world dataset to verify its peerless efficiency and excellent generality.
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spellingShingle Dynamic Regularized Sharpness Aware Minimization in Federated Learning: Approaching Global Consistency and Smooth Landscape
Sun, Yan
Shen, Li
Chen, Shixiang
Ding, Liang
Tao, Dacheng
Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Optimization and Control
In federated learning (FL), a cluster of local clients are chaired under the coordination of the global server and cooperatively train one model with privacy protection. Due to the multiple local updates and the isolated non-iid dataset, clients are prone to overfit into their own optima, which extremely deviates from the global objective and significantly undermines the performance. Most previous works only focus on enhancing the consistency between the local and global objectives to alleviate this prejudicial client drifts from the perspective of the optimization view, whose performance would be prominently deteriorated on the high heterogeneity. In this work, we propose a novel and general algorithm {\ttfamily FedSMOO} by jointly considering the optimization and generalization targets to efficiently improve the performance in FL. Concretely, {\ttfamily FedSMOO} adopts a dynamic regularizer to guarantee the local optima towards the global objective, which is meanwhile revised by the global Sharpness Aware Minimization (SAM) optimizer to search for the consistent flat minima. Our theoretical analysis indicates that {\ttfamily FedSMOO} achieves fast $\mathcal{O}(1/T)$ convergence rate with low generalization bound. Extensive numerical studies are conducted on the real-world dataset to verify its peerless efficiency and excellent generality.
title Dynamic Regularized Sharpness Aware Minimization in Federated Learning: Approaching Global Consistency and Smooth Landscape
topic Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11584