Spiking Neural Networks in Vertical Federated Learning: Performance Trade-offs

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Main Authors: Abbasihafshejani, Maryam, Maiti, Anindya, Jadliwala, Murtuza
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Published: 2024
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author Abbasihafshejani, Maryam
Maiti, Anindya
Jadliwala, Murtuza
author_facet Abbasihafshejani, Maryam
Maiti, Anindya
Jadliwala, Murtuza
contents Federated machine learning enables model training across multiple clients while maintaining data privacy. Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) specifically deals with instances where the clients have different feature sets of the same samples. As federated learning models aim to improve efficiency and adaptability, innovative neural network architectures like Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are being leveraged to enable fast and accurate processing at the edge. SNNs, known for their efficiency over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), have not been analyzed for their applicability in VFL, thus far. In this paper, we investigate the benefits and trade-offs of using SNN models in a vertical federated learning setting. We implement two different federated learning architectures -- with model splitting and without model splitting -- that have different privacy and performance implications. We evaluate the setup using CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 benchmark datasets along with SNN implementations of VGG9 and ResNET classification models. Comparative evaluations demonstrate that the accuracy of SNN models is comparable to that of traditional ANNs for VFL applications, albeit significantly more energy efficient.
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spellingShingle Spiking Neural Networks in Vertical Federated Learning: Performance Trade-offs
Abbasihafshejani, Maryam
Maiti, Anindya
Jadliwala, Murtuza
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Federated machine learning enables model training across multiple clients while maintaining data privacy. Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) specifically deals with instances where the clients have different feature sets of the same samples. As federated learning models aim to improve efficiency and adaptability, innovative neural network architectures like Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are being leveraged to enable fast and accurate processing at the edge. SNNs, known for their efficiency over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), have not been analyzed for their applicability in VFL, thus far. In this paper, we investigate the benefits and trade-offs of using SNN models in a vertical federated learning setting. We implement two different federated learning architectures -- with model splitting and without model splitting -- that have different privacy and performance implications. We evaluate the setup using CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 benchmark datasets along with SNN implementations of VGG9 and ResNET classification models. Comparative evaluations demonstrate that the accuracy of SNN models is comparable to that of traditional ANNs for VFL applications, albeit significantly more energy efficient.
title Spiking Neural Networks in Vertical Federated Learning: Performance Trade-offs
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17672