One-Bit Byzantine-Tolerant Distributed Learning via Over-the-Air Computation

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Auteurs principaux: Yang, Yuhan, Wu, Youlong, Jiang, Yuning, Shi, Yuanming
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author Yang, Yuhan
Wu, Youlong
Jiang, Yuning
Shi, Yuanming
author_facet Yang, Yuhan
Wu, Youlong
Jiang, Yuning
Shi, Yuanming
contents Distributed learning has become a promising computational parallelism paradigm that enables a wide scope of intelligent applications from the Internet of Things (IoT) to autonomous driving and the healthcare industry. This paper studies distributed learning in wireless data center networks, which contain a central edge server and multiple edge workers to collaboratively train a shared global model and benefit from parallel computing. However, the distributed nature causes the vulnerability of the learning process to faults and adversarial attacks from Byzantine edge workers, as well as the severe communication and computation overhead induced by the periodical information exchange process. To achieve fast and reliable model aggregation in the presence of Byzantine attacks, we develop a signed stochastic gradient descent (SignSGD)-based Hierarchical Vote framework via over-the-air computation (AirComp), where one voting process is performed locally at the wireless edge by taking advantage of Bernoulli coding while the other is operated over-the-air at the central edge server by utilizing the waveform superposition property of the multiple-access channels. We comprehensively analyze the proposed framework on the impacts including Byzantine attacks and the wireless environment (channel fading and receiver noise), followed by characterizing the convergence behavior under non-convex settings. Simulation results validate our theoretical achievements and demonstrate the robustness of our proposed framework in the presence of Byzantine attacks and receiver noise.
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spellingShingle One-Bit Byzantine-Tolerant Distributed Learning via Over-the-Air Computation
Yang, Yuhan
Wu, Youlong
Jiang, Yuning
Shi, Yuanming
Signal Processing
Distributed learning has become a promising computational parallelism paradigm that enables a wide scope of intelligent applications from the Internet of Things (IoT) to autonomous driving and the healthcare industry. This paper studies distributed learning in wireless data center networks, which contain a central edge server and multiple edge workers to collaboratively train a shared global model and benefit from parallel computing. However, the distributed nature causes the vulnerability of the learning process to faults and adversarial attacks from Byzantine edge workers, as well as the severe communication and computation overhead induced by the periodical information exchange process. To achieve fast and reliable model aggregation in the presence of Byzantine attacks, we develop a signed stochastic gradient descent (SignSGD)-based Hierarchical Vote framework via over-the-air computation (AirComp), where one voting process is performed locally at the wireless edge by taking advantage of Bernoulli coding while the other is operated over-the-air at the central edge server by utilizing the waveform superposition property of the multiple-access channels. We comprehensively analyze the proposed framework on the impacts including Byzantine attacks and the wireless environment (channel fading and receiver noise), followed by characterizing the convergence behavior under non-convex settings. Simulation results validate our theoretical achievements and demonstrate the robustness of our proposed framework in the presence of Byzantine attacks and receiver noise.
title One-Bit Byzantine-Tolerant Distributed Learning via Over-the-Air Computation
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11998