Fairness-aware Federated Minimax Optimization with Convergence Guarantee

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Autori principali: Dunda, Gerry Windiarto Mohamad, Song, Shenghui
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author Dunda, Gerry Windiarto Mohamad
Song, Shenghui
author_facet Dunda, Gerry Windiarto Mohamad
Song, Shenghui
contents Federated learning (FL) has garnered considerable attention due to its privacy-preserving feature. Nonetheless, the lack of freedom in managing user data can lead to group fairness issues, where models are biased towards sensitive factors such as race or gender. To tackle this issue, this paper proposes a novel algorithm, fair federated averaging with augmented Lagrangian method (FFALM), designed explicitly to address group fairness issues in FL. Specifically, we impose a fairness constraint on the training objective and solve the minimax reformulation of the constrained optimization problem. Then, we derive the theoretical upper bound for the convergence rate of FFALM. The effectiveness of FFALM in improving fairness is shown empirically on CelebA and UTKFace datasets in the presence of severe statistical heterogeneity.
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spellingShingle Fairness-aware Federated Minimax Optimization with Convergence Guarantee
Dunda, Gerry Windiarto Mohamad
Song, Shenghui
Machine Learning
Computers and Society
Federated learning (FL) has garnered considerable attention due to its privacy-preserving feature. Nonetheless, the lack of freedom in managing user data can lead to group fairness issues, where models are biased towards sensitive factors such as race or gender. To tackle this issue, this paper proposes a novel algorithm, fair federated averaging with augmented Lagrangian method (FFALM), designed explicitly to address group fairness issues in FL. Specifically, we impose a fairness constraint on the training objective and solve the minimax reformulation of the constrained optimization problem. Then, we derive the theoretical upper bound for the convergence rate of FFALM. The effectiveness of FFALM in improving fairness is shown empirically on CelebA and UTKFace datasets in the presence of severe statistical heterogeneity.
title Fairness-aware Federated Minimax Optimization with Convergence Guarantee
topic Machine Learning
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04417