Energy-Efficient Federated Learning for AIoT using Clustering Methods

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Main Authors: Pereira, Roberto, Famá, Fernanda, Kalalas, Charalampos, Dini, Paolo
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author Pereira, Roberto
Famá, Fernanda
Kalalas, Charalampos
Dini, Paolo
author_facet Pereira, Roberto
Famá, Fernanda
Kalalas, Charalampos
Dini, Paolo
contents While substantial research has been devoted to optimizing model performance, convergence rates, and communication efficiency, the energy implications of federated learning (FL) within Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) scenarios are often overlooked in the existing literature. This study examines the energy consumed during the FL process, focusing on three main energy-intensive processes: pre-processing, communication, and local learning, all contributing to the overall energy footprint. We rely on the observation that device/client selection is crucial for speeding up the convergence of model training in a distributed AIoT setting and propose two clustering-informed methods. These clustering solutions are designed to group AIoT devices with similar label distributions, resulting in clusters composed of nearly heterogeneous devices. Hence, our methods alleviate the heterogeneity often encountered in real-world distributed learning applications. Throughout extensive numerical experimentation, we demonstrate that our clustering strategies typically achieve high convergence rates while maintaining low energy consumption when compared to other recent approaches available in the literature.
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spellingShingle Energy-Efficient Federated Learning for AIoT using Clustering Methods
Pereira, Roberto
Famá, Fernanda
Kalalas, Charalampos
Dini, Paolo
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
While substantial research has been devoted to optimizing model performance, convergence rates, and communication efficiency, the energy implications of federated learning (FL) within Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) scenarios are often overlooked in the existing literature. This study examines the energy consumed during the FL process, focusing on three main energy-intensive processes: pre-processing, communication, and local learning, all contributing to the overall energy footprint. We rely on the observation that device/client selection is crucial for speeding up the convergence of model training in a distributed AIoT setting and propose two clustering-informed methods. These clustering solutions are designed to group AIoT devices with similar label distributions, resulting in clusters composed of nearly heterogeneous devices. Hence, our methods alleviate the heterogeneity often encountered in real-world distributed learning applications. Throughout extensive numerical experimentation, we demonstrate that our clustering strategies typically achieve high convergence rates while maintaining low energy consumption when compared to other recent approaches available in the literature.
title Energy-Efficient Federated Learning for AIoT using Clustering Methods
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09704