FedORGP: Guiding Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Orthogonality Regularization on Global Prototypes

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Hauptverfasser: Guo, Fucheng, Luan, Zeyu, Li, Qing, Zhao, Dan, Jiang, Yong
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author Guo, Fucheng
Luan, Zeyu
Li, Qing
Zhao, Dan
Jiang, Yong
author_facet Guo, Fucheng
Luan, Zeyu
Li, Qing
Zhao, Dan
Jiang, Yong
contents Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as an essential framework for distributed machine learning, especially with its potential for privacy-preserving data processing. However, existing FL frameworks struggle to address statistical and model heterogeneity, which severely impacts model performance. While Heterogeneous Federated Learning (HtFL) introduces prototype-based strategies to address the challenges, current approaches face limitations in achieving optimal separation of prototypes. This paper presents FedORGP, a novel HtFL algorithm designed to improve global prototype separation through orthogonality regularization, which not only encourages intra-class prototype similarity but also significantly expands the inter-class angular separation. With the guidance of the global prototype, each client keeps its embeddings aligned with the corresponding prototype in the feature space, promoting directional independence that integrates seamlessly with the cross-entropy (CE) loss. We provide theoretical proof of FedORGP's convergence under non-convex conditions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FedORGP outperforms seven state-of-the-art baselines, achieving up to 10.12\% accuracy improvement in scenarios where statistical and model heterogeneity coexist.
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spellingShingle FedORGP: Guiding Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Orthogonality Regularization on Global Prototypes
Guo, Fucheng
Luan, Zeyu
Li, Qing
Zhao, Dan
Jiang, Yong
Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as an essential framework for distributed machine learning, especially with its potential for privacy-preserving data processing. However, existing FL frameworks struggle to address statistical and model heterogeneity, which severely impacts model performance. While Heterogeneous Federated Learning (HtFL) introduces prototype-based strategies to address the challenges, current approaches face limitations in achieving optimal separation of prototypes. This paper presents FedORGP, a novel HtFL algorithm designed to improve global prototype separation through orthogonality regularization, which not only encourages intra-class prototype similarity but also significantly expands the inter-class angular separation. With the guidance of the global prototype, each client keeps its embeddings aligned with the corresponding prototype in the feature space, promoting directional independence that integrates seamlessly with the cross-entropy (CE) loss. We provide theoretical proof of FedORGP's convergence under non-convex conditions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FedORGP outperforms seven state-of-the-art baselines, achieving up to 10.12\% accuracy improvement in scenarios where statistical and model heterogeneity coexist.
title FedORGP: Guiding Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Orthogonality Regularization on Global Prototypes
topic Machine Learning
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16119