Fairness-Aware Multi-Server Federated Learning Task Delegation over Wireless Networks

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Main Authors: Gao, Yulan, Ren, Chao, Yu, Han
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author Gao, Yulan
Ren, Chao
Yu, Han
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Ren, Chao
Yu, Han
contents In the rapidly advancing field of federated learning (FL), ensuring efficient FL task delegation while incentivising FL client participation poses significant challenges, especially in wireless networks where FL participants' coverage is limited. Existing Contract Theory-based methods are designed under the assumption that there is only one FL server in the system (i.e., the monopoly market assumption), which in unrealistic in practice. To address this limitation, we propose Fairness-Aware Multi-Server FL task delegation approach (FAMuS), a novel framework based on Contract Theory and Lyapunov optimization to jointly address these intricate issues facing wireless multi-server FL networks (WMSFLN). Within a given WMSFLN, a task requester products multiple FL tasks and delegate them to FL servers which coordinate the training processes. To ensure fair treatment of FL servers, FAMuS establishes virtual queues to track their previous access to FL tasks, updating them in relation to the resulting FL model performance. The objective is to minimize the time-averaged cost in a WMSFLN, while ensuring all queues remain stable. This is particularly challenging given the incomplete information regarding FL clients' participation cost and the unpredictable nature of the WMSFLN state, which depends on the locations of the mobile clients. Extensive experiments comparing FAMuS against five state-of-the-art approaches based on two real-world datasets demonstrate that it achieves 6.91% higher test accuracy, 27.34% lower cost, and 0.63% higher fairness on average than the best-performing baseline.
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Gao, Yulan
Ren, Chao
Yu, Han
Systems and Control
In the rapidly advancing field of federated learning (FL), ensuring efficient FL task delegation while incentivising FL client participation poses significant challenges, especially in wireless networks where FL participants' coverage is limited. Existing Contract Theory-based methods are designed under the assumption that there is only one FL server in the system (i.e., the monopoly market assumption), which in unrealistic in practice. To address this limitation, we propose Fairness-Aware Multi-Server FL task delegation approach (FAMuS), a novel framework based on Contract Theory and Lyapunov optimization to jointly address these intricate issues facing wireless multi-server FL networks (WMSFLN). Within a given WMSFLN, a task requester products multiple FL tasks and delegate them to FL servers which coordinate the training processes. To ensure fair treatment of FL servers, FAMuS establishes virtual queues to track their previous access to FL tasks, updating them in relation to the resulting FL model performance. The objective is to minimize the time-averaged cost in a WMSFLN, while ensuring all queues remain stable. This is particularly challenging given the incomplete information regarding FL clients' participation cost and the unpredictable nature of the WMSFLN state, which depends on the locations of the mobile clients. Extensive experiments comparing FAMuS against five state-of-the-art approaches based on two real-world datasets demonstrate that it achieves 6.91% higher test accuracy, 27.34% lower cost, and 0.63% higher fairness on average than the best-performing baseline.
title Fairness-Aware Multi-Server Federated Learning Task Delegation over Wireless Networks
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09153