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Main Authors: Ling, Chih Wei, Shiu, Chun Hei Michael, Wu, Youqi, Sun, Jiande, Li, Cheuk Ting, Song, Linqi, Xu, Weitao
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12046
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author Ling, Chih Wei
Shiu, Chun Hei Michael
Wu, Youqi
Sun, Jiande
Li, Cheuk Ting
Song, Linqi
Xu, Weitao
author_facet Ling, Chih Wei
Shiu, Chun Hei Michael
Wu, Youqi
Sun, Jiande
Li, Cheuk Ting
Song, Linqi
Xu, Weitao
contents Training machine learning models on decentralized private data via federated learning (FL) poses two key challenges: communication efficiency and privacy protection. In this work, we address these challenges within the trusted aggregator model by introducing a novel approach called the Communication-Efficient and Privacy-Adaptable Mechanism (CEPAM), achieving both objectives simultaneously. In particular, CEPAM leverages the rejection-sampled universal quantizer (RSUQ), a construction of randomized vector quantizer whose resulting distortion is equivalent to a prescribed noise, such as Gaussian or Laplace noise, enabling joint differential privacy and compression. Our CEPAM provides the additional benefit of privacy adaptability, allowing clients and the server to customize privacy protection based on required accuracy and protection. We theoretically analyze the privacy guarantee of CEPAM and investigate the trade-offs among user privacy and accuracy of CEPAM through experimental evaluations. Moreover, we assess CEPAM's utility performance using MNIST dataset, demonstrating that CEPAM surpasses baseline models in terms of learning accuracy.
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spellingShingle Communication-Efficient and Privacy-Adaptable Mechanism for Federated Learning
Ling, Chih Wei
Shiu, Chun Hei Michael
Wu, Youqi
Sun, Jiande
Li, Cheuk Ting
Song, Linqi
Xu, Weitao
Machine Learning
Training machine learning models on decentralized private data via federated learning (FL) poses two key challenges: communication efficiency and privacy protection. In this work, we address these challenges within the trusted aggregator model by introducing a novel approach called the Communication-Efficient and Privacy-Adaptable Mechanism (CEPAM), achieving both objectives simultaneously. In particular, CEPAM leverages the rejection-sampled universal quantizer (RSUQ), a construction of randomized vector quantizer whose resulting distortion is equivalent to a prescribed noise, such as Gaussian or Laplace noise, enabling joint differential privacy and compression. Our CEPAM provides the additional benefit of privacy adaptability, allowing clients and the server to customize privacy protection based on required accuracy and protection. We theoretically analyze the privacy guarantee of CEPAM and investigate the trade-offs among user privacy and accuracy of CEPAM through experimental evaluations. Moreover, we assess CEPAM's utility performance using MNIST dataset, demonstrating that CEPAM surpasses baseline models in terms of learning accuracy.
title Communication-Efficient and Privacy-Adaptable Mechanism for Federated Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12046