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Hauptverfasser: Chajewska, Urszula, Shrivastava, Harsh
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2023
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11680
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author Chajewska, Urszula
Shrivastava, Harsh
author_facet Chajewska, Urszula
Shrivastava, Harsh
contents Federated Learning (FL) addresses the need to create models based on proprietary data in such a way that multiple clients retain exclusive control over their data, while all benefit from improved model accuracy due to pooled resources. Recently proposed Neural Graphical Models (NGMs) are Probabilistic Graphical models that utilize the expressive power of neural networks to learn complex non-linear dependencies between the input features. They learn to capture the underlying data distribution and have efficient algorithms for inference and sampling. We develop a FL framework which maintains a global NGM model that learns the averaged information from the local NGM models while keeping the training data within the client's environment. Our design, FedNGMs, avoids the pitfalls and shortcomings of neuron matching frameworks like Federated Matched Averaging that suffers from model parameter explosion. Our global model size remains constant throughout the process. In the cases where clients have local variables that are not part of the combined global distribution, we propose a `Stitching' algorithm, which personalizes the global NGM models by merging the additional variables using the client's data. FedNGM is robust to data heterogeneity, large number of participants, and limited communication bandwidth. We experimentally demonstrated the use of FedNGMs for extracting insights from CDC's Infant Mortality dataset and discuss interesting future applications.
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spellingShingle Federated Learning with Neural Graphical Models
Chajewska, Urszula
Shrivastava, Harsh
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Federated Learning (FL) addresses the need to create models based on proprietary data in such a way that multiple clients retain exclusive control over their data, while all benefit from improved model accuracy due to pooled resources. Recently proposed Neural Graphical Models (NGMs) are Probabilistic Graphical models that utilize the expressive power of neural networks to learn complex non-linear dependencies between the input features. They learn to capture the underlying data distribution and have efficient algorithms for inference and sampling. We develop a FL framework which maintains a global NGM model that learns the averaged information from the local NGM models while keeping the training data within the client's environment. Our design, FedNGMs, avoids the pitfalls and shortcomings of neuron matching frameworks like Federated Matched Averaging that suffers from model parameter explosion. Our global model size remains constant throughout the process. In the cases where clients have local variables that are not part of the combined global distribution, we propose a `Stitching' algorithm, which personalizes the global NGM models by merging the additional variables using the client's data. FedNGM is robust to data heterogeneity, large number of participants, and limited communication bandwidth. We experimentally demonstrated the use of FedNGMs for extracting insights from CDC's Infant Mortality dataset and discuss interesting future applications.
title Federated Learning with Neural Graphical Models
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11680