Summary of Differentially Private Clustered Federated Learning, by Saber Malekmohammadi et al.
Differentially Private Clustered Federated Learning
by Saber Malekmohammadi, Afaf Taik, Golnoosh Farnadi
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning approach that incorporates differential privacy (DP) for rigorous data privacy guarantees. Previous methods attempted to address high structured data heterogeneity through clustered FL, but they remained sensitive and prone to errors due to DP noise. This paper proposes an algorithm for differentially private clustered FL that addresses the server’s uncertainties by employing large batch sizes and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM). The approach reduces the impact of DP and stochastic noise and avoids potential clustering errors. Our proposed method is efficient in privacy-sensitive scenarios with more DP noise. We provide theoretical analysis to justify our approach and evaluate it across diverse data distributions and privacy budgets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper talks about a way to make machine learning work better when different groups of people contribute their own data. It’s called federated learning, or FL for short. FL helps keep the data private by using something called differential privacy. But sometimes it doesn’t work well if there are big differences between the types of data each group has. This paper proposes a new way to do FL that can handle these big differences better. It uses some fancy math and computer science techniques to make sure everything works smoothly. The results show that this method is really good at keeping things private and accurate, even when dealing with lots of different types of data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Clustering » Federated learning » Machine learning
