Rehearsal-Free Continual Federated Learning with Synergistic Synaptic Intelligence

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Hauptverfasser: Li, Yichen, Wang, Yuying, Wang, Haozhao, Qi, Yining, Xiao, Tianzhe, Li, Ruixuan
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author Li, Yichen
Wang, Yuying
Wang, Haozhao
Qi, Yining
Xiao, Tianzhe
Li, Ruixuan
author_facet Li, Yichen
Wang, Yuying
Wang, Haozhao
Qi, Yining
Xiao, Tianzhe
Li, Ruixuan
contents Continual Federated Learning (CFL) allows distributed devices to collaboratively learn novel concepts from continuously shifting training data while avoiding knowledge forgetting of previously seen tasks. To tackle this challenge, most current CFL approaches rely on extensive rehearsal of previous data. Despite effectiveness, rehearsal comes at a cost to memory, and it may also violate data privacy. Considering these, we seek to apply regularization techniques to CFL by considering their cost-efficient properties that do not require sample caching or rehearsal. Specifically, we first apply traditional regularization techniques to CFL and observe that existing regularization techniques, especially synaptic intelligence, can achieve promising results under homogeneous data distribution but fail when the data is heterogeneous. Based on this observation, we propose a simple yet effective regularization algorithm for CFL named FedSSI, which tailors the synaptic intelligence for the CFL with heterogeneous data settings. FedSSI can not only reduce computational overhead without rehearsal but also address the data heterogeneity issue. Extensive experiments show that FedSSI achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
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spellingShingle Rehearsal-Free Continual Federated Learning with Synergistic Synaptic Intelligence
Li, Yichen
Wang, Yuying
Wang, Haozhao
Qi, Yining
Xiao, Tianzhe
Li, Ruixuan
Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Continual Federated Learning (CFL) allows distributed devices to collaboratively learn novel concepts from continuously shifting training data while avoiding knowledge forgetting of previously seen tasks. To tackle this challenge, most current CFL approaches rely on extensive rehearsal of previous data. Despite effectiveness, rehearsal comes at a cost to memory, and it may also violate data privacy. Considering these, we seek to apply regularization techniques to CFL by considering their cost-efficient properties that do not require sample caching or rehearsal. Specifically, we first apply traditional regularization techniques to CFL and observe that existing regularization techniques, especially synaptic intelligence, can achieve promising results under homogeneous data distribution but fail when the data is heterogeneous. Based on this observation, we propose a simple yet effective regularization algorithm for CFL named FedSSI, which tailors the synaptic intelligence for the CFL with heterogeneous data settings. FedSSI can not only reduce computational overhead without rehearsal but also address the data heterogeneity issue. Extensive experiments show that FedSSI achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
title Rehearsal-Free Continual Federated Learning with Synergistic Synaptic Intelligence
topic Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13779