U-FedTomAtt: Ultra-lightweight Federated Learning with Attention for Tomato Disease Recognition

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Autori principali: George, Romiyal, Nishankar, Sathiyamohan, Thuseethan, Selvarajah, Wimalasooriya, Chathrie, Sebastian, Yakub, Ragel, Roshan G., Liang, Zhongwei
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author George, Romiyal
Nishankar, Sathiyamohan
Thuseethan, Selvarajah
Wimalasooriya, Chathrie
Sebastian, Yakub
Ragel, Roshan G.
Liang, Zhongwei
author_facet George, Romiyal
Nishankar, Sathiyamohan
Thuseethan, Selvarajah
Wimalasooriya, Chathrie
Sebastian, Yakub
Ragel, Roshan G.
Liang, Zhongwei
contents Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving and efficient approach for deploying intelligent agricultural solutions. Accurate edge-based diagnosis across geographically dispersed farms is crucial for recognising tomato diseases in sustainable farming. Traditional centralised training aggregates raw data on a central server, leading to communication overhead, privacy risks and latency. Meanwhile, edge devices require lightweight networks to operate effectively within limited resources. In this paper, we propose U-FedTomAtt, an ultra-lightweight federated learning framework with attention for tomato disease recognition in resource-constrained and distributed environments. The model comprises only 245.34K parameters and 71.41 MFLOPS. First, we propose an ultra-lightweight neural network with dilated bottleneck (DBNeck) modules and a linear transformer to minimise computational and memory overhead. To mitigate potential accuracy loss, a novel local-global residual attention (LoGRA) module is incorporated. Second, we propose the federated dual adaptive weight aggregation (FedDAWA) algorithm that enhances global model accuracy. Third, our framework is validated using three benchmark datasets for tomato diseases under simulated federated settings. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves 0.9910% and 0.9915% Top-1 accuracy and 0.9923% and 0.9897% F1-scores on SLIF-Tomato and PlantVillage tomato datasets, respectively.
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spellingShingle U-FedTomAtt: Ultra-lightweight Federated Learning with Attention for Tomato Disease Recognition
George, Romiyal
Nishankar, Sathiyamohan
Thuseethan, Selvarajah
Wimalasooriya, Chathrie
Sebastian, Yakub
Ragel, Roshan G.
Liang, Zhongwei
Quantitative Methods
Machine Learning
Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving and efficient approach for deploying intelligent agricultural solutions. Accurate edge-based diagnosis across geographically dispersed farms is crucial for recognising tomato diseases in sustainable farming. Traditional centralised training aggregates raw data on a central server, leading to communication overhead, privacy risks and latency. Meanwhile, edge devices require lightweight networks to operate effectively within limited resources. In this paper, we propose U-FedTomAtt, an ultra-lightweight federated learning framework with attention for tomato disease recognition in resource-constrained and distributed environments. The model comprises only 245.34K parameters and 71.41 MFLOPS. First, we propose an ultra-lightweight neural network with dilated bottleneck (DBNeck) modules and a linear transformer to minimise computational and memory overhead. To mitigate potential accuracy loss, a novel local-global residual attention (LoGRA) module is incorporated. Second, we propose the federated dual adaptive weight aggregation (FedDAWA) algorithm that enhances global model accuracy. Third, our framework is validated using three benchmark datasets for tomato diseases under simulated federated settings. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves 0.9910% and 0.9915% Top-1 accuracy and 0.9923% and 0.9897% F1-scores on SLIF-Tomato and PlantVillage tomato datasets, respectively.
title U-FedTomAtt: Ultra-lightweight Federated Learning with Attention for Tomato Disease Recognition
topic Quantitative Methods
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16749