Communication-Efficient Federated Learning through Adaptive Weight Clustering and Server-Side Distillation

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Hauptverfasser: Tsouvalas, Vasileios, Saeed, Aaqib, Ozcelebi, Tanir, Meratnia, Nirvana
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author Tsouvalas, Vasileios
Saeed, Aaqib
Ozcelebi, Tanir
Meratnia, Nirvana
author_facet Tsouvalas, Vasileios
Saeed, Aaqib
Ozcelebi, Tanir
Meratnia, Nirvana
contents Federated Learning (FL) is a promising technique for the collaborative training of deep neural networks across multiple devices while preserving data privacy. Despite its potential benefits, FL is hindered by excessive communication costs due to repeated server-client communication during training. To address this challenge, model compression techniques, such as sparsification and weight clustering are applied, which often require modifying the underlying model aggregation schemes or involve cumbersome hyperparameter tuning, with the latter not only adjusts the model's compression rate but also limits model's potential for continuous improvement over growing data. In this paper, we propose FedCompress, a novel approach that combines dynamic weight clustering and server-side knowledge distillation to reduce communication costs while learning highly generalizable models. Through a comprehensive evaluation on diverse public datasets, we demonstrate the efficacy of our approach compared to baselines in terms of communication costs and inference speed.
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spellingShingle Communication-Efficient Federated Learning through Adaptive Weight Clustering and Server-Side Distillation
Tsouvalas, Vasileios
Saeed, Aaqib
Ozcelebi, Tanir
Meratnia, Nirvana
Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Federated Learning (FL) is a promising technique for the collaborative training of deep neural networks across multiple devices while preserving data privacy. Despite its potential benefits, FL is hindered by excessive communication costs due to repeated server-client communication during training. To address this challenge, model compression techniques, such as sparsification and weight clustering are applied, which often require modifying the underlying model aggregation schemes or involve cumbersome hyperparameter tuning, with the latter not only adjusts the model's compression rate but also limits model's potential for continuous improvement over growing data. In this paper, we propose FedCompress, a novel approach that combines dynamic weight clustering and server-side knowledge distillation to reduce communication costs while learning highly generalizable models. Through a comprehensive evaluation on diverse public datasets, we demonstrate the efficacy of our approach compared to baselines in terms of communication costs and inference speed.
title Communication-Efficient Federated Learning through Adaptive Weight Clustering and Server-Side Distillation
topic Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14211