Summary of Fedstein: Enhancing Multi-domain Federated Learning Through James-stein Estimator, by Sunny Gupta et al.
FedStein: Enhancing Multi-Domain Federated Learning Through James-Stein Estimator
by Sunny Gupta, Nikita Jangid, Amit Sethi
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); 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 The novel FedStein method enhances multi-domain federated learning by sharing James-Stein estimates of batch normalization statistics across clients. This approach uniquely maintains local BN parameters, while exchanging non-BN layer parameters via standard FL techniques. By doing so, FedStein surpasses existing methods like FedAvg and FedBN, achieving accuracy improvements exceeding 14% in certain domains, thus leading to enhanced domain generalization. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary FedStein is a new way to make machines learn together without sharing all their data. This helps keep information private while still making the machine learning better. The problem with this kind of learning is that when the data comes from different places and looks different, it can be hard for the machines to work together. FedStein fixes this by only sharing certain types of information between the machines, which makes them work better together. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Batch normalization » Domain generalization » Federated learning » Machine learning
