Owen Sampling Accelerates Contribution Estimation in Federated Learning

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Autori principali: KhademSohi, Hossein, Hemmati, Hadi, Zhou, Jiayu, Drew, Steve
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author KhademSohi, Hossein
Hemmati, Hadi
Zhou, Jiayu
Drew, Steve
author_facet KhademSohi, Hossein
Hemmati, Hadi
Zhou, Jiayu
Drew, Steve
contents Federated Learning (FL) aggregates information from multiple clients to train a shared global model without exposing raw data. Accurately estimating each client's contribution is essential not just for fair rewards, but for selecting the most useful clients so the global model converges faster. The Shapley value is a principled choice, yet exact computation scales exponentially with the number of clients, making it infeasible for large federations. We propose FedOwen, an efficient framework that uses Owen sampling to approximate Shapley values under the same total evaluation budget as existing methods while keeping the approximation error small. In addition, FedOwen uses an adaptive client selection strategy that balances exploiting high-value clients with exploring under-sampled ones, reducing bias and uncovering rare but informative data. Under a fixed valuation cost, FedOwen achieves up to 23 percent higher final accuracy within the same number of communication rounds compared to state-of-the-art baselines on non-IID benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Owen Sampling Accelerates Contribution Estimation in Federated Learning
KhademSohi, Hossein
Hemmati, Hadi
Zhou, Jiayu
Drew, Steve
Machine Learning
Federated Learning (FL) aggregates information from multiple clients to train a shared global model without exposing raw data. Accurately estimating each client's contribution is essential not just for fair rewards, but for selecting the most useful clients so the global model converges faster. The Shapley value is a principled choice, yet exact computation scales exponentially with the number of clients, making it infeasible for large federations. We propose FedOwen, an efficient framework that uses Owen sampling to approximate Shapley values under the same total evaluation budget as existing methods while keeping the approximation error small. In addition, FedOwen uses an adaptive client selection strategy that balances exploiting high-value clients with exploring under-sampled ones, reducing bias and uncovering rare but informative data. Under a fixed valuation cost, FedOwen achieves up to 23 percent higher final accuracy within the same number of communication rounds compared to state-of-the-art baselines on non-IID benchmarks.
title Owen Sampling Accelerates Contribution Estimation in Federated Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21261