FedNE: Surrogate-Assisted Federated Neighbor Embedding for Dimensionality Reduction

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Main Authors: Li, Ziwei, Wang, Xiaoqi, Chen, Hong-You, Shen, Han-Wei, Chao, Wei-Lun
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author Li, Ziwei
Wang, Xiaoqi
Chen, Hong-You
Shen, Han-Wei
Chao, Wei-Lun
author_facet Li, Ziwei
Wang, Xiaoqi
Chen, Hong-You
Shen, Han-Wei
Chao, Wei-Lun
contents Federated learning (FL) has rapidly evolved as a promising paradigm that enables collaborative model training across distributed participants without exchanging their local data. Despite its broad applications in fields such as computer vision, graph learning, and natural language processing, the development of a data projection model that can be effectively used to visualize data in the context of FL is crucial yet remains heavily under-explored. Neighbor embedding (NE) is an essential technique for visualizing complex high-dimensional data, but collaboratively learning a joint NE model is difficult. The key challenge lies in the objective function, as effective visualization algorithms like NE require computing loss functions among pairs of data. In this paper, we introduce \textsc{FedNE}, a novel approach that integrates the \textsc{FedAvg} framework with the contrastive NE technique, without any requirements of shareable data. To address the lack of inter-client repulsion which is crucial for the alignment in the global embedding space, we develop a surrogate loss function that each client learns and shares with each other. Additionally, we propose a data-mixing strategy to augment the local data, aiming to relax the problems of invisible neighbors and false neighbors constructed by the local $k$NN graphs. We conduct comprehensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets. The results demonstrate that our \textsc{FedNE} can effectively preserve the neighborhood data structures and enhance the alignment in the global embedding space compared to several baseline methods.
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spellingShingle FedNE: Surrogate-Assisted Federated Neighbor Embedding for Dimensionality Reduction
Li, Ziwei
Wang, Xiaoqi
Chen, Hong-You
Shen, Han-Wei
Chao, Wei-Lun
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Federated learning (FL) has rapidly evolved as a promising paradigm that enables collaborative model training across distributed participants without exchanging their local data. Despite its broad applications in fields such as computer vision, graph learning, and natural language processing, the development of a data projection model that can be effectively used to visualize data in the context of FL is crucial yet remains heavily under-explored. Neighbor embedding (NE) is an essential technique for visualizing complex high-dimensional data, but collaboratively learning a joint NE model is difficult. The key challenge lies in the objective function, as effective visualization algorithms like NE require computing loss functions among pairs of data. In this paper, we introduce \textsc{FedNE}, a novel approach that integrates the \textsc{FedAvg} framework with the contrastive NE technique, without any requirements of shareable data. To address the lack of inter-client repulsion which is crucial for the alignment in the global embedding space, we develop a surrogate loss function that each client learns and shares with each other. Additionally, we propose a data-mixing strategy to augment the local data, aiming to relax the problems of invisible neighbors and false neighbors constructed by the local $k$NN graphs. We conduct comprehensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets. The results demonstrate that our \textsc{FedNE} can effectively preserve the neighborhood data structures and enhance the alignment in the global embedding space compared to several baseline methods.
title FedNE: Surrogate-Assisted Federated Neighbor Embedding for Dimensionality Reduction
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11509