FedX: Adaptive Model Decomposition and Quantization for IoT Federated Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Lai, Phung, Jiang, Xiaopeng, Phan, Hai, Borcea, Cristian, Tran, Khang, Chen, An, Mayyuri, Vijaya Datta, Jin, Ruoming
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author Lai, Phung
Jiang, Xiaopeng
Phan, Hai
Borcea, Cristian
Tran, Khang
Chen, An
Mayyuri, Vijaya Datta
Jin, Ruoming
author_facet Lai, Phung
Jiang, Xiaopeng
Phan, Hai
Borcea, Cristian
Tran, Khang
Chen, An
Mayyuri, Vijaya Datta
Jin, Ruoming
contents Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative training among multiple devices without data sharing, thus enabling privacy-sensitive applications on mobile or Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as mobile health and asset tracking. However, designing an FL system with good model utility that works with low computation/communication overhead on heterogeneous, resource-constrained mobile/IoT devices is challenging. To address this problem, this paper proposes FedX, a novel adaptive model decomposition and quantization FL system for IoT. To balance utility with resource constraints on IoT devices, FedX decomposes a global FL model into different sub-networks with adaptive numbers of quantized bits for different devices. The key idea is that a device with fewer resources receives a smaller sub-network for lower overhead but utilizes a larger number of quantized bits for higher model utility, and vice versa. The quantization operations in FedX are done at the server to reduce the computational load on devices. FedX iteratively minimizes the losses in the devices' local data and in the server's public data using quantized sub-networks under a regularization term, and thus it maximizes the benefits of combining FL with model quantization through knowledge sharing among the server and devices in a cost-effective training process. Extensive experiments show that FedX significantly improves quantization times by up to 8.43X, on-device computation time by 1.5X, and total end-to-end training time by 1.36X, compared with baseline FL systems. We guarantee the global model convergence theoretically and validate local model convergence empirically, highlighting FedX's optimization efficiency.
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spellingShingle FedX: Adaptive Model Decomposition and Quantization for IoT Federated Learning
Lai, Phung
Jiang, Xiaopeng
Phan, Hai
Borcea, Cristian
Tran, Khang
Chen, An
Mayyuri, Vijaya Datta
Jin, Ruoming
Machine Learning
Federated Learning (FL) allows collaborative training among multiple devices without data sharing, thus enabling privacy-sensitive applications on mobile or Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as mobile health and asset tracking. However, designing an FL system with good model utility that works with low computation/communication overhead on heterogeneous, resource-constrained mobile/IoT devices is challenging. To address this problem, this paper proposes FedX, a novel adaptive model decomposition and quantization FL system for IoT. To balance utility with resource constraints on IoT devices, FedX decomposes a global FL model into different sub-networks with adaptive numbers of quantized bits for different devices. The key idea is that a device with fewer resources receives a smaller sub-network for lower overhead but utilizes a larger number of quantized bits for higher model utility, and vice versa. The quantization operations in FedX are done at the server to reduce the computational load on devices. FedX iteratively minimizes the losses in the devices' local data and in the server's public data using quantized sub-networks under a regularization term, and thus it maximizes the benefits of combining FL with model quantization through knowledge sharing among the server and devices in a cost-effective training process. Extensive experiments show that FedX significantly improves quantization times by up to 8.43X, on-device computation time by 1.5X, and total end-to-end training time by 1.36X, compared with baseline FL systems. We guarantee the global model convergence theoretically and validate local model convergence empirically, highlighting FedX's optimization efficiency.
title FedX: Adaptive Model Decomposition and Quantization for IoT Federated Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12849