Exploring System-Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Dynamic Model Selection

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Main Author: Yao, Dixi
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contents Federated learning is a distributed learning paradigm in which multiple mobile clients train a global model while keeping data local. These mobile clients can have various available memory and network bandwidth. However, to achieve the best global model performance, how we can utilize available memory and network bandwidth to the maximum remains an open challenge. In this paper, we propose to assign each client a subset of the global model, having different layers and channels on each layer. To realize that, we design a constrained model search process with early stop to improve efficiency of finding the models from such a very large space; and a data-free knowledge distillation mechanism to improve the global model performance when aggregating models of such different structures. For fair and reproducible comparison between different solutions, we develop a new system, which can directly allocate different memory and bandwidth to each client according to memory and bandwidth logs collected on mobile devices. The evaluation shows that our solution can have accuracy increase ranging from 2.43\% to 15.81\% and provide 5\% to 40\% more memory and bandwidth utilization with negligible extra running time, comparing to existing state-of-the-art system-heterogeneous federated learning methods under different available memory and bandwidth, non-i.i.d.~datasets, image and text tasks.
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spellingShingle Exploring System-Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Dynamic Model Selection
Yao, Dixi
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Federated learning is a distributed learning paradigm in which multiple mobile clients train a global model while keeping data local. These mobile clients can have various available memory and network bandwidth. However, to achieve the best global model performance, how we can utilize available memory and network bandwidth to the maximum remains an open challenge. In this paper, we propose to assign each client a subset of the global model, having different layers and channels on each layer. To realize that, we design a constrained model search process with early stop to improve efficiency of finding the models from such a very large space; and a data-free knowledge distillation mechanism to improve the global model performance when aggregating models of such different structures. For fair and reproducible comparison between different solutions, we develop a new system, which can directly allocate different memory and bandwidth to each client according to memory and bandwidth logs collected on mobile devices. The evaluation shows that our solution can have accuracy increase ranging from 2.43\% to 15.81\% and provide 5\% to 40\% more memory and bandwidth utilization with negligible extra running time, comparing to existing state-of-the-art system-heterogeneous federated learning methods under different available memory and bandwidth, non-i.i.d.~datasets, image and text tasks.
title Exploring System-Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Dynamic Model Selection
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08858