Summary of Enhancing Convergence in Federated Learning: a Contribution-aware Asynchronous Approach, by Changxin Xu et al.
Enhancing Convergence in Federated Learning: A Contribution-Aware Asynchronous Approach
by Changxin Xu, Yuxin Qiao, Zhanxin Zhou, Fanghao Ni, Jize Xiong
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes a novel approach to Federated Learning (FL), an AI paradigm that enables distributed model training while preserving data privacy. Building upon established FL algorithms like FedAvg and its variants, the proposed method addresses the limitations of traditional synchronous approaches by introducing asynchronous updates. The authors aim to accelerate convergence by considering the staleness and statistical heterogeneity of received updates, rather than simply aggregating them. This contribution-aware approach has the potential to significantly improve performance in realistic FL settings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Federated Learning is a way for computers to learn together without sharing their personal data. Right now, there are problems with how this learning happens. Some solutions try to fix these issues by making all the updates at once, but this can be slow and not work well. The researchers in this paper came up with a new way to make this process faster. They created an algorithm that looks at each update and decides how important it is based on when it was made and how different it is from other updates. This helps the learning happen more quickly. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Federated learning
