SCOPE: Semantic Coreset with Orthogonal Projection Embeddings for Federated learning

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Main Authors: Hossen, Md Anwar, Tallent, Nathan R., Guo, Luanzheng, Jannesary, Ali
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Published: 2026
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author Hossen, Md Anwar
Tallent, Nathan R.
Guo, Luanzheng
Jannesary, Ali
author_facet Hossen, Md Anwar
Tallent, Nathan R.
Guo, Luanzheng
Jannesary, Ali
contents Scientific discovery increasingly requires learning on federated datasets, fed by streams from high-resolution instruments, that have extreme class imbalance. Current ML approaches either require impractical data aggregation or fail due to class imbalance. Existing coreset selection methods rely on local heuristics, making them unaware of the global data landscape and prone to sub-optimal and non-representative pruning. To overcome these challenges, we introduce SCOPE (Semantic Coreset using Orthogonal Projection Embeddings for Federated learning), a coreset framework for federated data that filters anomalies and adaptively prunes redundant data to mitigate long-tail skew. By analyzing the latent space distribution, we score each data point using a representation score that measures the reliability of core class features, a diversity score that quantifies the novelty of orthogonal residuals, and a boundary proximity score that indicates similarity to competing classes. Unlike prior methods, SCOPE shares only scalar metrics with a federated server to construct a global consensus, ensuring communication efficiency. Guided by the global consensus, SCOPE dynamically filters local noise and discards redundant samples to counteract global feature skews. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SCOPE yields competitive global accuracy and robust convergence, all while achieving exceptional efficiency with a 128x to 512x reduction in uplink bandwidth, a 7.72x wall-clock acceleration and reduced FLOP and VRAM footprints for local coreset selection.
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spellingShingle SCOPE: Semantic Coreset with Orthogonal Projection Embeddings for Federated learning
Hossen, Md Anwar
Tallent, Nathan R.
Guo, Luanzheng
Jannesary, Ali
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Scientific discovery increasingly requires learning on federated datasets, fed by streams from high-resolution instruments, that have extreme class imbalance. Current ML approaches either require impractical data aggregation or fail due to class imbalance. Existing coreset selection methods rely on local heuristics, making them unaware of the global data landscape and prone to sub-optimal and non-representative pruning. To overcome these challenges, we introduce SCOPE (Semantic Coreset using Orthogonal Projection Embeddings for Federated learning), a coreset framework for federated data that filters anomalies and adaptively prunes redundant data to mitigate long-tail skew. By analyzing the latent space distribution, we score each data point using a representation score that measures the reliability of core class features, a diversity score that quantifies the novelty of orthogonal residuals, and a boundary proximity score that indicates similarity to competing classes. Unlike prior methods, SCOPE shares only scalar metrics with a federated server to construct a global consensus, ensuring communication efficiency. Guided by the global consensus, SCOPE dynamically filters local noise and discards redundant samples to counteract global feature skews. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SCOPE yields competitive global accuracy and robust convergence, all while achieving exceptional efficiency with a 128x to 512x reduction in uplink bandwidth, a 7.72x wall-clock acceleration and reduced FLOP and VRAM footprints for local coreset selection.
title SCOPE: Semantic Coreset with Orthogonal Projection Embeddings for Federated learning
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12976