Summary of Meta-learning For Federated Face Recognition in Imbalanced Data Regimes, by Arwin Gansekoele et al.
Meta-Learning for Federated Face Recognition in Imbalanced Data Regimes
by Arwin Gansekoele, Emiel Hess, Sandjai Bhulai
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes Federated Face Recognition (FRR), a technique that claims to guarantee user privacy in face image data. FFR is a subfield of Federated Learning (FL) and faces challenges due to heterogeneous data. To overcome this issue, the authors introduce personalized FL solutions. The work introduces three CelebA dataset partitions with different forms of heterogeneity and proposes Hessian-Free Model Agnostic Meta-Learning (HF-MAML) in an FFR setting. Experimental results show that HF-MAML outperforms current FFR models on verification tests across three data partitions, particularly in heterogeneous partitions. To balance personalization with global model development, the authors introduce an embedding regularization term for the loss function, which can be combined with HF-MAML to improve global model performance. The paper also performs a fairness analysis, showing that HF-MAML and its extension can improve fairness by reducing standard deviation over client evaluation scores. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making face recognition more private for users. Right now, there are concerns about how our faces are being used online. One way to make face recognition safer is with something called Federated Face Recognition (FRR). FFR has a problem because the data it uses is very different from one place to another. To fix this, scientists came up with new ways of organizing the data. They also created a new method called HF-MAML that does better than other methods in recognizing faces. The paper shows that HF-MAML works well on different types of data and makes sure that everyone’s face is treated fairly. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Embedding » Face recognition » Federated learning » Loss function » Meta learning » Regularization
