Summary of Fedali: Personalized Federated Learning with Aligned Prototypes Through Optimal Transport, by Sannara Ek et al.
FedAli: Personalized Federated Learning with Aligned Prototypes through Optimal Transport
by Sannara Ek, Kaile Wang, François Portet, Philippe Lalanda, Jiannong Cao
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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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 Federated Alignment (FedAli), a novel framework for Federated Learning (FL) that addresses the challenge of data heterogeneity among clients. The proposed Alignment with Prototypes (ALP) layers align incoming embeddings closer to learnable prototypes through an optimal transport plan. This enables personalized model training across multiple devices without sharing raw data, making it suitable for pervasive computing applications. The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of FedAli on heterogeneous sensor-based human activity recognition and vision benchmark datasets, outperforming existing FL strategies. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Federated Learning lets different devices work together to make better models without sharing their personal data. This is helpful when we want to use machine learning in lots of different places, like homes or stores. The problem is that each device has its own unique data, which makes it hard for the models to learn from each other. To fix this, the authors created a new way to make the devices’ data work together better. They used something called “prototypes” to help the devices agree on what their data means. This new approach is called Federated Alignment (FedAli). The authors tested FedAli on some datasets and showed that it works better than other methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Activity recognition * Alignment * Federated learning * Machine learning
