FedAA: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective on Adaptive Aggregation for Fair and Robust Federated Learning

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Hauptverfasser: He, Jialuo, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Xiaojin
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author He, Jialuo
Chen, Wei
Zhang, Xiaojin
author_facet He, Jialuo
Chen, Wei
Zhang, Xiaojin
contents Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for privacy-preserving model training across decentralized devices. However, it faces challenges such as statistical heterogeneity and susceptibility to adversarial attacks, which can impact model robustness and fairness. Personalized FL attempts to provide some relief by customizing models for individual clients. However, it falls short in addressing server-side aggregation vulnerabilities. We introduce a novel method called \textbf{FedAA}, which optimizes client contributions via \textbf{A}daptive \textbf{A}ggregation to enhance model robustness against malicious clients and ensure fairness across participants in non-identically distributed settings. To achieve this goal, we propose an approach involving a Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient-based algorithm for continuous control of aggregation weights, an innovative client selection method based on model parameter distances, and a reward mechanism guided by validation set performance. Empirically, extensive experiments demonstrate that, in terms of robustness, \textbf{FedAA} outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, while maintaining comparable levels of fairness, offering a promising solution to build resilient and fair federated systems. Our code is available at https://github.com/Gp1g/FedAA.
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spellingShingle FedAA: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective on Adaptive Aggregation for Fair and Robust Federated Learning
He, Jialuo
Chen, Wei
Zhang, Xiaojin
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for privacy-preserving model training across decentralized devices. However, it faces challenges such as statistical heterogeneity and susceptibility to adversarial attacks, which can impact model robustness and fairness. Personalized FL attempts to provide some relief by customizing models for individual clients. However, it falls short in addressing server-side aggregation vulnerabilities. We introduce a novel method called \textbf{FedAA}, which optimizes client contributions via \textbf{A}daptive \textbf{A}ggregation to enhance model robustness against malicious clients and ensure fairness across participants in non-identically distributed settings. To achieve this goal, we propose an approach involving a Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient-based algorithm for continuous control of aggregation weights, an innovative client selection method based on model parameter distances, and a reward mechanism guided by validation set performance. Empirically, extensive experiments demonstrate that, in terms of robustness, \textbf{FedAA} outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, while maintaining comparable levels of fairness, offering a promising solution to build resilient and fair federated systems. Our code is available at https://github.com/Gp1g/FedAA.
title FedAA: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective on Adaptive Aggregation for Fair and Robust Federated Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05541