Taming Cross-Domain Representation Variance in Federated Prototype Learning with Heterogeneous Data Domains

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Autori principali: Wang, Lei, Bian, Jieming, Zhang, Letian, Chen, Chen, Xu, Jie
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author Wang, Lei
Bian, Jieming
Zhang, Letian
Chen, Chen
Xu, Jie
author_facet Wang, Lei
Bian, Jieming
Zhang, Letian
Chen, Chen
Xu, Jie
contents Federated learning (FL) allows collaborative machine learning training without sharing private data. While most FL methods assume identical data domains across clients, real-world scenarios often involve heterogeneous data domains. Federated Prototype Learning (FedPL) addresses this issue, using mean feature vectors as prototypes to enhance model generalization. However, existing FedPL methods create the same number of prototypes for each client, leading to cross-domain performance gaps and disparities for clients with varied data distributions. To mitigate cross-domain feature representation variance, we introduce FedPLVM, which establishes variance-aware dual-level prototypes clustering and employs a novel $α$-sparsity prototype loss. The dual-level prototypes clustering strategy creates local clustered prototypes based on private data features, then performs global prototypes clustering to reduce communication complexity and preserve local data privacy. The $α$-sparsity prototype loss aligns samples from underrepresented domains, enhancing intra-class similarity and reducing inter-class similarity. Evaluations on Digit-5, Office-10, and DomainNet datasets demonstrate our method's superiority over existing approaches.
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spellingShingle Taming Cross-Domain Representation Variance in Federated Prototype Learning with Heterogeneous Data Domains
Wang, Lei
Bian, Jieming
Zhang, Letian
Chen, Chen
Xu, Jie
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Federated learning (FL) allows collaborative machine learning training without sharing private data. While most FL methods assume identical data domains across clients, real-world scenarios often involve heterogeneous data domains. Federated Prototype Learning (FedPL) addresses this issue, using mean feature vectors as prototypes to enhance model generalization. However, existing FedPL methods create the same number of prototypes for each client, leading to cross-domain performance gaps and disparities for clients with varied data distributions. To mitigate cross-domain feature representation variance, we introduce FedPLVM, which establishes variance-aware dual-level prototypes clustering and employs a novel $α$-sparsity prototype loss. The dual-level prototypes clustering strategy creates local clustered prototypes based on private data features, then performs global prototypes clustering to reduce communication complexity and preserve local data privacy. The $α$-sparsity prototype loss aligns samples from underrepresented domains, enhancing intra-class similarity and reducing inter-class similarity. Evaluations on Digit-5, Office-10, and DomainNet datasets demonstrate our method's superiority over existing approaches.
title Taming Cross-Domain Representation Variance in Federated Prototype Learning with Heterogeneous Data Domains
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09048