Calibre: Towards Fair and Accurate Personalized Federated Learning with Self-Supervised Learning

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Main Authors: Chen, Sijia, Su, Ningxin, Li, Baochun
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author Chen, Sijia
Su, Ningxin
Li, Baochun
author_facet Chen, Sijia
Su, Ningxin
Li, Baochun
contents In the context of personalized federated learning, existing approaches train a global model to extract transferable representations, based on which any client could train personalized models with a limited number of data samples. Self-supervised learning is considered a promising direction as the global model it produces is generic and facilitates personalization for all clients fairly. However, when data is heterogeneous across clients, the global model trained using SSL is unable to learn high-quality personalized models. In this paper, we show that when the global model is trained with SSL without modifications, its produced representations have fuzzy class boundaries. As a result, personalized learning within each client produces models with low accuracy. In order to improve SSL towards better accuracy without sacrificing its advantage in fairness, we propose Calibre, a new personalized federated learning framework designed to calibrate SSL representations by maintaining a suitable balance between more generic and more client-specific representations. Calibre is designed based on theoretically-sound properties, and introduces (1) a client-specific prototype loss as an auxiliary training objective; and (2) an aggregation algorithm guided by such prototypes across clients. Our experimental results in an extensive array of non-i.i.d.~settings show that Calibre achieves state-of-the-art performance in terms of both mean accuracy and fairness across clients. Code repo: https://github.com/TL-System/plato/tree/main/examples/ssl/calibre.
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spellingShingle Calibre: Towards Fair and Accurate Personalized Federated Learning with Self-Supervised Learning
Chen, Sijia
Su, Ningxin
Li, Baochun
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
In the context of personalized federated learning, existing approaches train a global model to extract transferable representations, based on which any client could train personalized models with a limited number of data samples. Self-supervised learning is considered a promising direction as the global model it produces is generic and facilitates personalization for all clients fairly. However, when data is heterogeneous across clients, the global model trained using SSL is unable to learn high-quality personalized models. In this paper, we show that when the global model is trained with SSL without modifications, its produced representations have fuzzy class boundaries. As a result, personalized learning within each client produces models with low accuracy. In order to improve SSL towards better accuracy without sacrificing its advantage in fairness, we propose Calibre, a new personalized federated learning framework designed to calibrate SSL representations by maintaining a suitable balance between more generic and more client-specific representations. Calibre is designed based on theoretically-sound properties, and introduces (1) a client-specific prototype loss as an auxiliary training objective; and (2) an aggregation algorithm guided by such prototypes across clients. Our experimental results in an extensive array of non-i.i.d.~settings show that Calibre achieves state-of-the-art performance in terms of both mean accuracy and fairness across clients. Code repo: https://github.com/TL-System/plato/tree/main/examples/ssl/calibre.
title Calibre: Towards Fair and Accurate Personalized Federated Learning with Self-Supervised Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20020