Summary of Fedpews: Personalized Warmup Via Subnetworks For Enhanced Heterogeneous Federated Learning, by Nurbek Tastan et al.
FedPeWS: Personalized Warmup via Subnetworks for Enhanced Heterogeneous Federated Learning
by Nurbek Tastan, Samuel Horvath, Martin Takac, Karthik Nandakumar
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Oct 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 A novel approach to addressing statistical data heterogeneity in federated learning, which is critical for achieving convergence across diverse datasets, has been proposed. The authors of the paper introduce a warmup phase where each participant learns a personalized mask and updates only a subnetwork of the full model. This allows participants to focus on learning specific subnetworks tailored to the heterogeneity of their data. After the warmup phase, participants revert to standard federated optimization. Experimental results demonstrate that this approach, dubbed FedPeWS, outperforms traditional methods in terms of accuracy and convergence speed. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Federated learning helps devices learn from each other without sharing all their data. But when different devices have very different types of data, it can be hard to get everyone’s models to agree. The authors of a new paper suggest a way to make federated learning work better in this situation. They propose starting with a special “warm-up” phase where each device learns just part of the model, tailored to its own type of data. Then, after this warm-up, devices switch to working together as usual. This approach, called FedPeWS, seems to help models converge faster and be more accurate. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Federated learning » Mask » Optimization
