Summary of Feddm: Enhancing Communication Efficiency and Handling Data Heterogeneity in Federated Diffusion Models, by Jayneel Vora et al.
FedDM: Enhancing Communication Efficiency and Handling Data Heterogeneity in Federated Diffusion Models
by Jayneel Vora, Nader Bouacida, Aditya Krishnan, Prasant Mohapatra
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 paper introduces FedDM, a novel framework for training diffusion models in a federated setting. The authors provide theoretical analysis demonstrating the convergence of these models when trained in this manner, highlighting specific conditions for guaranteed convergence. To achieve this, they propose several training algorithms based on the U-Net architecture, including basic Federated Averaging and variants that address data heterogeneity among clients. Another variant incorporates quantization to reduce model update size, improving communication efficiency. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary FedDM is a new way to train special kinds of machine learning models called diffusion models. These models are used for tasks like image generation and video prediction. The authors of this paper wanted to figure out how to train these models when you have lots of different computers working together (this is called federated training). They did some math to show that if the conditions are right, these models can be trained in a way that makes them work well across all the different computers. To do this, they created new ways to train the models, like averaging the updates from each computer and using special tricks to make sure the updates aren’t too big. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Image generation * Machine learning * Quantization
