MMiC: Mitigating Modality Incompleteness in Clustered Federated Learning

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Main Authors: Yang, Lishan, Zhang, Wei Emma, Sheng, Quan Z., Yao, Lina, Chen, Weitong, Shakeri, Ali
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author Yang, Lishan
Zhang, Wei Emma
Sheng, Quan Z.
Yao, Lina
Chen, Weitong
Shakeri, Ali
author_facet Yang, Lishan
Zhang, Wei Emma
Sheng, Quan Z.
Yao, Lina
Chen, Weitong
Shakeri, Ali
contents In the era of big data, data mining has become indispensable for uncovering hidden patterns and insights from vast and complex datasets. The integration of multimodal data sources further enhances its potential. Multimodal Federated Learning (MFL) is a distributed approach that enhances the efficiency and quality of multimodal learning, ensuring collaborative work and privacy protection. However, missing modalities pose a significant challenge in MFL, often due to data quality issues or privacy policies across the clients. In this work, we present MMiC, a framework for Mitigating Modality incompleteness in MFL within the Clusters. MMiC replaces partial parameters within client models inside clusters to mitigate the impact of missing modalities. Furthermore, it leverages the Banzhaf Power Index to optimize client selection under these conditions. Finally, MMiC employs an innovative approach to dynamically control global aggregation by utilizing Markovitz Portfolio Optimization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MMiC consistently outperforms existing federated learning architectures in both global and personalized performance on multimodal datasets with missing modalities, confirming the effectiveness of our proposed solution. Our code is available at https://github.com/gotobcn8/MMiC.
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spellingShingle MMiC: Mitigating Modality Incompleteness in Clustered Federated Learning
Yang, Lishan
Zhang, Wei Emma
Sheng, Quan Z.
Yao, Lina
Chen, Weitong
Shakeri, Ali
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.11; I.2.7
In the era of big data, data mining has become indispensable for uncovering hidden patterns and insights from vast and complex datasets. The integration of multimodal data sources further enhances its potential. Multimodal Federated Learning (MFL) is a distributed approach that enhances the efficiency and quality of multimodal learning, ensuring collaborative work and privacy protection. However, missing modalities pose a significant challenge in MFL, often due to data quality issues or privacy policies across the clients. In this work, we present MMiC, a framework for Mitigating Modality incompleteness in MFL within the Clusters. MMiC replaces partial parameters within client models inside clusters to mitigate the impact of missing modalities. Furthermore, it leverages the Banzhaf Power Index to optimize client selection under these conditions. Finally, MMiC employs an innovative approach to dynamically control global aggregation by utilizing Markovitz Portfolio Optimization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MMiC consistently outperforms existing federated learning architectures in both global and personalized performance on multimodal datasets with missing modalities, confirming the effectiveness of our proposed solution. Our code is available at https://github.com/gotobcn8/MMiC.
title MMiC: Mitigating Modality Incompleteness in Clustered Federated Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.11; I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06911