Summary of Distributed Learning For Uav Swarms, by Chen Hu et al.
Distributed Learning for UAV Swarms
by Chen Hu, Hanchi Ren, Jingjing Deng, Xianghua Xie
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Robotics (cs.RO)
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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 presents an integration of Federated Learning (FL) methods with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms for efficient data processing while maintaining privacy and security. FL allows UAVs to collaboratively train global models without sharing raw data, but challenges arise due to the non-Independent and Identically Distributed (non-IID) nature of the data collected by UAVs. The study investigates the performance of multiple aggregation methods (FedAvg, FedProx, FedOpt, and MOON) on a variety of datasets (MNIST, CIFAR10, EuroSAT, and CelebA). The results show that while all algorithms perform comparably on IID data, their performance deteriorates significantly under non-IID conditions. FedProx demonstrated the most stable overall performance, highlighting the importance of regularising local updates in non-IID environments to mitigate drastic deviations in local models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study combines Federated Learning (FL) with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms for efficient data processing and privacy preservation. FL helps UAVs train global models together without sharing individual data, but this works best when all data is similar. Since real-world data from UAVs can be very different, the study tests four methods to see which one does best in these situations. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Federated learning
