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Main Authors: Qiu, Xinchi, Gao, Yan, Sani, Lorenzo, Pan, Heng, Zhao, Wanru, Gusmao, Pedro P. B., Alibeigi, Mina, Iacob, Alex, Lane, Nicholas D.
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10191
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author Qiu, Xinchi
Gao, Yan
Sani, Lorenzo
Pan, Heng
Zhao, Wanru
Gusmao, Pedro P. B.
Alibeigi, Mina
Iacob, Alex
Lane, Nicholas D.
author_facet Qiu, Xinchi
Gao, Yan
Sani, Lorenzo
Pan, Heng
Zhao, Wanru
Gusmao, Pedro P. B.
Alibeigi, Mina
Iacob, Alex
Lane, Nicholas D.
contents Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that facilitates collaborative training of a shared global model across devices while keeping data localized. The deployment of FL in numerous real-world applications faces delays, primarily due to the prevalent reliance on supervised tasks. Generating detailed labels at edge devices, if feasible, is demanding, given resource constraints and the imperative for continuous data updates. In addressing these challenges, solutions such as federated semi-supervised learning (FSSL), which relies on unlabeled clients' data and a limited amount of labeled data on the server, become pivotal. In this paper, we propose FedAnchor, an innovative FSSL method that introduces a unique double-head structure, called anchor head, paired with the classification head trained exclusively on labeled anchor data on the server. The anchor head is empowered with a newly designed label contrastive loss based on the cosine similarity metric. Our approach mitigates the confirmation bias and overfitting issues associated with pseudo-labeling techniques based on high-confidence model prediction samples. Extensive experiments on CIFAR10/100 and SVHN datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art method by a significant margin in terms of convergence rate and model accuracy.
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spellingShingle FedAnchor: Enhancing Federated Semi-Supervised Learning with Label Contrastive Loss for Unlabeled Clients
Qiu, Xinchi
Gao, Yan
Sani, Lorenzo
Pan, Heng
Zhao, Wanru
Gusmao, Pedro P. B.
Alibeigi, Mina
Iacob, Alex
Lane, Nicholas D.
Machine Learning
Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that facilitates collaborative training of a shared global model across devices while keeping data localized. The deployment of FL in numerous real-world applications faces delays, primarily due to the prevalent reliance on supervised tasks. Generating detailed labels at edge devices, if feasible, is demanding, given resource constraints and the imperative for continuous data updates. In addressing these challenges, solutions such as federated semi-supervised learning (FSSL), which relies on unlabeled clients' data and a limited amount of labeled data on the server, become pivotal. In this paper, we propose FedAnchor, an innovative FSSL method that introduces a unique double-head structure, called anchor head, paired with the classification head trained exclusively on labeled anchor data on the server. The anchor head is empowered with a newly designed label contrastive loss based on the cosine similarity metric. Our approach mitigates the confirmation bias and overfitting issues associated with pseudo-labeling techniques based on high-confidence model prediction samples. Extensive experiments on CIFAR10/100 and SVHN datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art method by a significant margin in terms of convergence rate and model accuracy.
title FedAnchor: Enhancing Federated Semi-Supervised Learning with Label Contrastive Loss for Unlabeled Clients
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10191