Heterogeneity-Aware Resource Allocation and Topology Design for Hierarchical Federated Edge Learning

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Autori principali: Gao, Zhidong, Zhang, Yu, Gong, Yanmin, Guo, Yuanxiong
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author Gao, Zhidong
Zhang, Yu
Gong, Yanmin
Guo, Yuanxiong
author_facet Gao, Zhidong
Zhang, Yu
Gong, Yanmin
Guo, Yuanxiong
contents Federated Learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving framework for training machine learning models on mobile edge devices. Traditional FL algorithms, e.g., FedAvg, impose a heavy communication workload on these devices. To mitigate this issue, Hierarchical Federated Edge Learning (HFEL) has been proposed, leveraging edge servers as intermediaries for model aggregation. Despite its effectiveness, HFEL encounters challenges such as a slow convergence rate and high resource consumption, particularly in the presence of system and data heterogeneity. However, existing works are mainly focused on improving training efficiency for traditional FL, leaving the efficiency of HFEL largely unexplored. In this paper, we consider a two-tier HFEL system, where edge devices are connected to edge servers and edge servers are interconnected through peer-to-peer (P2P) edge backhauls. Our goal is to enhance the training efficiency of the HFEL system through strategic resource allocation and topology design. Specifically, we formulate an optimization problem to minimize the total training latency by allocating the computation and communication resources, as well as adjusting the P2P connections. To ensure convergence under dynamic topologies, we analyze the convergence error bound and introduce a model consensus constraint into the optimization problem. The proposed problem is then decomposed into several subproblems, enabling us to alternatively solve it online. Our method facilitates the efficient implementation of large-scale FL at edge networks under data and system heterogeneity. Comprehensive experiment evaluation on benchmark datasets validates the effectiveness of the proposed method, demonstrating significant reductions in training latency while maintaining the model accuracy compared to various baselines.
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spellingShingle Heterogeneity-Aware Resource Allocation and Topology Design for Hierarchical Federated Edge Learning
Gao, Zhidong
Zhang, Yu
Gong, Yanmin
Guo, Yuanxiong
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Federated Learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving framework for training machine learning models on mobile edge devices. Traditional FL algorithms, e.g., FedAvg, impose a heavy communication workload on these devices. To mitigate this issue, Hierarchical Federated Edge Learning (HFEL) has been proposed, leveraging edge servers as intermediaries for model aggregation. Despite its effectiveness, HFEL encounters challenges such as a slow convergence rate and high resource consumption, particularly in the presence of system and data heterogeneity. However, existing works are mainly focused on improving training efficiency for traditional FL, leaving the efficiency of HFEL largely unexplored. In this paper, we consider a two-tier HFEL system, where edge devices are connected to edge servers and edge servers are interconnected through peer-to-peer (P2P) edge backhauls. Our goal is to enhance the training efficiency of the HFEL system through strategic resource allocation and topology design. Specifically, we formulate an optimization problem to minimize the total training latency by allocating the computation and communication resources, as well as adjusting the P2P connections. To ensure convergence under dynamic topologies, we analyze the convergence error bound and introduce a model consensus constraint into the optimization problem. The proposed problem is then decomposed into several subproblems, enabling us to alternatively solve it online. Our method facilitates the efficient implementation of large-scale FL at edge networks under data and system heterogeneity. Comprehensive experiment evaluation on benchmark datasets validates the effectiveness of the proposed method, demonstrating significant reductions in training latency while maintaining the model accuracy compared to various baselines.
title Heterogeneity-Aware Resource Allocation and Topology Design for Hierarchical Federated Edge Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19509