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Autori principali: Yang, Yiyuan, Long, Guodong, Lu, Qinghua, Zhu, Liming, Jiang, Jing
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12697
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author Yang, Yiyuan
Long, Guodong
Lu, Qinghua
Zhu, Liming
Jiang, Jing
author_facet Yang, Yiyuan
Long, Guodong
Lu, Qinghua
Zhu, Liming
Jiang, Jing
contents Federated foundation models represent a new paradigm to jointly fine-tune pre-trained foundation models across clients. It is still a challenge to fine-tune foundation models for a small group of new users or specialized scenarios, which typically involve limited data compared to the large-scale data used in pre-training. In this context, the trade-off between personalization and federation becomes more sensitive. To tackle these, we proposed a bi-level personalization framework for federated fine-tuning on foundation models. Specifically, we conduct personalized fine-tuning on the client-level using its private data, and then conduct a personalized aggregation on the server-level using similar users measured by client-specific task vectors. Given the personalization information gained from client-level fine-tuning, the server-level personalized aggregation can gain group-wise personalization information while mitigating the disturbance of irrelevant or interest-conflict clients with non-IID data. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm has been demonstrated by extensive experimental analysis in benchmark datasets.
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spellingShingle Bi-level Personalization for Federated Foundation Models: A Task-vector Aggregation Approach
Yang, Yiyuan
Long, Guodong
Lu, Qinghua
Zhu, Liming
Jiang, Jing
Machine Learning
Federated foundation models represent a new paradigm to jointly fine-tune pre-trained foundation models across clients. It is still a challenge to fine-tune foundation models for a small group of new users or specialized scenarios, which typically involve limited data compared to the large-scale data used in pre-training. In this context, the trade-off between personalization and federation becomes more sensitive. To tackle these, we proposed a bi-level personalization framework for federated fine-tuning on foundation models. Specifically, we conduct personalized fine-tuning on the client-level using its private data, and then conduct a personalized aggregation on the server-level using similar users measured by client-specific task vectors. Given the personalization information gained from client-level fine-tuning, the server-level personalized aggregation can gain group-wise personalization information while mitigating the disturbance of irrelevant or interest-conflict clients with non-IID data. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm has been demonstrated by extensive experimental analysis in benchmark datasets.
title Bi-level Personalization for Federated Foundation Models: A Task-vector Aggregation Approach
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12697