CoBo: Collaborative Learning via Bilevel Optimization

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Main Authors: Hashemi, Diba, He, Lie, Jaggi, Martin
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Published: 2024
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author Hashemi, Diba
He, Lie
Jaggi, Martin
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He, Lie
Jaggi, Martin
contents Collaborative learning is an important tool to train multiple clients more effectively by enabling communication among clients. Identifying helpful clients, however, presents challenging and often introduces significant overhead. In this paper, we model client-selection and model-training as two interconnected optimization problems, proposing a novel bilevel optimization problem for collaborative learning. We introduce CoBo, a scalable and elastic, SGD-type alternating optimization algorithm that efficiently addresses these problem with theoretical convergence guarantees. Empirically, CoBo achieves superior performance, surpassing popular personalization algorithms by 9.3% in accuracy on a task with high heterogeneity, involving datasets distributed among 80 clients.
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spellingShingle CoBo: Collaborative Learning via Bilevel Optimization
Hashemi, Diba
He, Lie
Jaggi, Martin
Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Collaborative learning is an important tool to train multiple clients more effectively by enabling communication among clients. Identifying helpful clients, however, presents challenging and often introduces significant overhead. In this paper, we model client-selection and model-training as two interconnected optimization problems, proposing a novel bilevel optimization problem for collaborative learning. We introduce CoBo, a scalable and elastic, SGD-type alternating optimization algorithm that efficiently addresses these problem with theoretical convergence guarantees. Empirically, CoBo achieves superior performance, surpassing popular personalization algorithms by 9.3% in accuracy on a task with high heterogeneity, involving datasets distributed among 80 clients.
title CoBo: Collaborative Learning via Bilevel Optimization
topic Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05539