Beyond Local Sharpness: Communication-Efficient Global Sharpness-aware Minimization for Federated Learning
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| author | Caldarola, Debora Cagnasso, Pietro Caputo, Barbara Ciccone, Marco |
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| contents | Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training with privacy preservation. Data heterogeneity across edge devices (clients) can cause models to converge to sharp minima, negatively impacting generalization and robustness. Recent approaches use client-side sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) to encourage flatter minima, but the discrepancy between local and global loss landscapes often undermines their effectiveness, as optimizing for local sharpness does not ensure global flatness. This work introduces FedGloSS (Federated Global Server-side Sharpness), a novel FL approach that prioritizes the optimization of global sharpness on the server, using SAM. To reduce communication overhead, FedGloSS cleverly approximates sharpness using the previous global gradient, eliminating the need for additional client communication. Our extensive evaluations demonstrate that FedGloSS consistently reaches flatter minima and better performance compared to state-of-the-art FL methods across various federated vision benchmarks. |
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| spellingShingle | Beyond Local Sharpness: Communication-Efficient Global Sharpness-aware Minimization for Federated Learning Caldarola, Debora Cagnasso, Pietro Caputo, Barbara Ciccone, Marco Artificial Intelligence Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training with privacy preservation. Data heterogeneity across edge devices (clients) can cause models to converge to sharp minima, negatively impacting generalization and robustness. Recent approaches use client-side sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) to encourage flatter minima, but the discrepancy between local and global loss landscapes often undermines their effectiveness, as optimizing for local sharpness does not ensure global flatness. This work introduces FedGloSS (Federated Global Server-side Sharpness), a novel FL approach that prioritizes the optimization of global sharpness on the server, using SAM. To reduce communication overhead, FedGloSS cleverly approximates sharpness using the previous global gradient, eliminating the need for additional client communication. Our extensive evaluations demonstrate that FedGloSS consistently reaches flatter minima and better performance compared to state-of-the-art FL methods across various federated vision benchmarks. |
| title | Beyond Local Sharpness: Communication-Efficient Global Sharpness-aware Minimization for Federated Learning |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03752 |