Byzantine-Resilient Federated PCA and Low Rank Column-wise Sensing

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Main Authors: Singh, Ankit Pratap, Vaswani, Namrata
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author Singh, Ankit Pratap
Vaswani, Namrata
author_facet Singh, Ankit Pratap
Vaswani, Namrata
contents This work considers two related learning problems in a federated attack prone setting: federated principal components analysis (PCA) and federated low rank column-wise sensing (LRCS). The node attacks are assumed to be Byzantine which means that the attackers are omniscient and can collude. We introduce a novel provably Byzantine-resilient communication-efficient and sampleefficient algorithm, called Subspace-Median, that solves the PCA problem and is a key part of the solution for the LRCS problem. We also study the most natural Byzantine-resilient solution for federated PCA, a geometric median based modification of the federated power method, and explain why it is not useful. Our second main contribution is a complete alternating gradient descent (GD) and minimization (altGDmin) algorithm for Byzantine-resilient horizontally federated LRCS and sample and communication complexity guarantees for it. Extensive simulation experiments are used to corroborate our theoretical guarantees. The ideas that we develop for LRCS are easily extendable to other LR recovery problems as well.
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spellingShingle Byzantine-Resilient Federated PCA and Low Rank Column-wise Sensing
Singh, Ankit Pratap
Vaswani, Namrata
Information Theory
Machine Learning
This work considers two related learning problems in a federated attack prone setting: federated principal components analysis (PCA) and federated low rank column-wise sensing (LRCS). The node attacks are assumed to be Byzantine which means that the attackers are omniscient and can collude. We introduce a novel provably Byzantine-resilient communication-efficient and sampleefficient algorithm, called Subspace-Median, that solves the PCA problem and is a key part of the solution for the LRCS problem. We also study the most natural Byzantine-resilient solution for federated PCA, a geometric median based modification of the federated power method, and explain why it is not useful. Our second main contribution is a complete alternating gradient descent (GD) and minimization (altGDmin) algorithm for Byzantine-resilient horizontally federated LRCS and sample and communication complexity guarantees for it. Extensive simulation experiments are used to corroborate our theoretical guarantees. The ideas that we develop for LRCS are easily extendable to other LR recovery problems as well.
title Byzantine-Resilient Federated PCA and Low Rank Column-wise Sensing
topic Information Theory
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14512