Accelerating Federated Learning by Selecting Beneficial Herd of Local Gradients

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Hauptverfasser: Luo, Ping, Deng, Xiaoge, Wen, Ziqing, Sun, Tao, Li, Dongsheng
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author Luo, Ping
Deng, Xiaoge
Wen, Ziqing
Sun, Tao
Li, Dongsheng
author_facet Luo, Ping
Deng, Xiaoge
Wen, Ziqing
Sun, Tao
Li, Dongsheng
contents Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning framework in communication network systems. However, the systems' Non-Independent and Identically Distributed (Non-IID) data negatively affect the convergence efficiency of the global model, since only a subset of these data samples are beneficial for model convergence. In pursuit of this subset, a reliable approach involves determining a measure of validity to rank the samples within the dataset. In this paper, We propose the BHerd strategy which selects a beneficial herd of local gradients to accelerate the convergence of the FL model. Specifically, we map the distribution of the local dataset to the local gradients and use the Herding strategy to obtain a permutation of the set of gradients, where the more advanced gradients in the permutation are closer to the average of the set of gradients. These top portion of the gradients will be selected and sent to the server for global aggregation. We conduct experiments on different datasets, models and scenarios by building a prototype system, and experimental results demonstrate that our BHerd strategy is effective in selecting beneficial local gradients to mitigate the effects brought by the Non-IID dataset, thus accelerating model convergence.
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spellingShingle Accelerating Federated Learning by Selecting Beneficial Herd of Local Gradients
Luo, Ping
Deng, Xiaoge
Wen, Ziqing
Sun, Tao
Li, Dongsheng
Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning framework in communication network systems. However, the systems' Non-Independent and Identically Distributed (Non-IID) data negatively affect the convergence efficiency of the global model, since only a subset of these data samples are beneficial for model convergence. In pursuit of this subset, a reliable approach involves determining a measure of validity to rank the samples within the dataset. In this paper, We propose the BHerd strategy which selects a beneficial herd of local gradients to accelerate the convergence of the FL model. Specifically, we map the distribution of the local dataset to the local gradients and use the Herding strategy to obtain a permutation of the set of gradients, where the more advanced gradients in the permutation are closer to the average of the set of gradients. These top portion of the gradients will be selected and sent to the server for global aggregation. We conduct experiments on different datasets, models and scenarios by building a prototype system, and experimental results demonstrate that our BHerd strategy is effective in selecting beneficial local gradients to mitigate the effects brought by the Non-IID dataset, thus accelerating model convergence.
title Accelerating Federated Learning by Selecting Beneficial Herd of Local Gradients
topic Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16557