Noise-Robust and Resource-Efficient ADMM-based Federated Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Lari, Ehsan, Arablouei, Reza, Gogineni, Vinay Chakravarthi, Werner, Stefan
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author Lari, Ehsan
Arablouei, Reza
Gogineni, Vinay Chakravarthi
Werner, Stefan
author_facet Lari, Ehsan
Arablouei, Reza
Gogineni, Vinay Chakravarthi
Werner, Stefan
contents Federated learning (FL) leverages client-server communications to train global models on decentralized data. However, communication noise or errors can impair model accuracy. To address this problem, we propose a novel FL algorithm that enhances robustness against communication noise while also reducing communication load. We derive the proposed algorithm through solving the weighted least-squares (WLS) regression problem as an illustrative example. We first frame WLS regression as a distributed convex optimization problem over a federated network employing random scheduling for improved communication efficiency. We then apply the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to iteratively solve this problem. To counteract the detrimental effects of cumulative communication noise, we introduce a key modification by eliminating the dual variable and implementing a new local model update at each participating client. This subtle yet effective change results in using a single noisy global model update at each client instead of two, improving robustness against additive communication noise. Furthermore, we incorporate another modification enabling clients to continue local updates even when not selected by the server, leading to substantial performance improvements. Our theoretical analysis confirms the convergence of our algorithm in both mean and the mean-square senses, even when the server communicates with a random subset of clients over noisy links at each iteration. Numerical results validate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm and corroborate our theoretical findings.
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spellingShingle Noise-Robust and Resource-Efficient ADMM-based Federated Learning
Lari, Ehsan
Arablouei, Reza
Gogineni, Vinay Chakravarthi
Werner, Stefan
Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Signal Processing
Federated learning (FL) leverages client-server communications to train global models on decentralized data. However, communication noise or errors can impair model accuracy. To address this problem, we propose a novel FL algorithm that enhances robustness against communication noise while also reducing communication load. We derive the proposed algorithm through solving the weighted least-squares (WLS) regression problem as an illustrative example. We first frame WLS regression as a distributed convex optimization problem over a federated network employing random scheduling for improved communication efficiency. We then apply the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to iteratively solve this problem. To counteract the detrimental effects of cumulative communication noise, we introduce a key modification by eliminating the dual variable and implementing a new local model update at each participating client. This subtle yet effective change results in using a single noisy global model update at each client instead of two, improving robustness against additive communication noise. Furthermore, we incorporate another modification enabling clients to continue local updates even when not selected by the server, leading to substantial performance improvements. Our theoretical analysis confirms the convergence of our algorithm in both mean and the mean-square senses, even when the server communicates with a random subset of clients over noisy links at each iteration. Numerical results validate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm and corroborate our theoretical findings.
title Noise-Robust and Resource-Efficient ADMM-based Federated Learning
topic Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13451