FairEnergy: Contribution-Based Fairness meets Energy Efficiency in Federated Learning

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Main Authors: Marnissi, Ouiame, Hammouti, Hajar EL, Bergou, El Houcine
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Published: 2025
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author Marnissi, Ouiame
Hammouti, Hajar EL
Bergou, El Houcine
author_facet Marnissi, Ouiame
Hammouti, Hajar EL
Bergou, El Houcine
contents Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving data privacy. However, balancing energy efficiency and fair participation while ensuring high model accuracy remains challenging in wireless edge systems due to heterogeneous resources, unequal client contributions, and limited communication capacity. To address these challenges, we propose FairEnergy, a fairness-aware energy minimization framework that integrates a contribution score capturing both the magnitude of updates and their compression ratio into the joint optimization of device selection, bandwidth allocation, and compression level. The resulting mixed-integer non-convex problem is solved by relaxing binary selection variables and applying Lagrangian decomposition to handle global bandwidth coupling, followed by per-device subproblem optimization. Experiments on non-IID data show that FairEnergy achieves higher accuracy while reducing energy consumption by up to 79\% compared to baseline strategies.
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spellingShingle FairEnergy: Contribution-Based Fairness meets Energy Efficiency in Federated Learning
Marnissi, Ouiame
Hammouti, Hajar EL
Bergou, El Houcine
Machine Learning
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving data privacy. However, balancing energy efficiency and fair participation while ensuring high model accuracy remains challenging in wireless edge systems due to heterogeneous resources, unequal client contributions, and limited communication capacity. To address these challenges, we propose FairEnergy, a fairness-aware energy minimization framework that integrates a contribution score capturing both the magnitude of updates and their compression ratio into the joint optimization of device selection, bandwidth allocation, and compression level. The resulting mixed-integer non-convex problem is solved by relaxing binary selection variables and applying Lagrangian decomposition to handle global bandwidth coupling, followed by per-device subproblem optimization. Experiments on non-IID data show that FairEnergy achieves higher accuracy while reducing energy consumption by up to 79\% compared to baseline strategies.
title FairEnergy: Contribution-Based Fairness meets Energy Efficiency in Federated Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15454