Summary of Federated Behavioural Planes: Explaining the Evolution Of Client Behaviour in Federated Learning, by Dario Fenoglio et al.
Federated Behavioural Planes: Explaining the Evolution of Client Behaviour in Federated Learning
by Dario Fenoglio, Gabriele Dominici, Pietro Barbiero, Alberto Tonda, Martin Gjoreski, Marc Langheinrich
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaborate on model training without sharing sensitive data, reducing privacy risks. However, understanding client behavior remains a key challenge in FL research. To address this, we introduce Federated Behavioural Planes (FBPs), a novel method for analyzing, visualizing, and explaining the dynamics of FL systems under two lenses: predictive performance and decision-making processes. Our experiments demonstrate that FBPs provide informative trajectories describing client behavior and contributions to the global model, enabling cluster identification of clients with similar behaviors. Leveraging these patterns, we propose Federated Behavioural Shields, a robust aggregation technique for detecting malicious or noisy client models, surpassing existing state-of-the-art FL defense mechanisms. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Federated Learning is a way to train artificial intelligence models without sharing private data. But it’s hard to understand how individual clients (like computers) behave and contribute to the model. To solve this problem, we created Federated Behavioural Planes, which helps analyze and explain client behavior in real-time. Our method shows how clients change their behavior over time and can group similar clients together. We also developed a new way to detect bad or noisy client models that can harm the overall model. This research makes AI training more secure and private. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Federated learning
