Summary of H-fedsn: Personalized Sparse Networks For Efficient and Accurate Hierarchical Federated Learning For Iot Applications, by Jiechao Gao et al.
H-FedSN: Personalized Sparse Networks for Efficient and Accurate Hierarchical Federated Learning for IoT Applications
by Jiechao Gao, Yuangang Li, Yue Zhao, Brad Campbell
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed approach, H-FedSN, addresses the limitations of traditional two-tier FL architectures and Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) in multi-tier IoT environments. By introducing a binary mask mechanism with shared and personalized layers, H-FedSN reduces communication overhead by creating a sparse network while keeping original weights frozen. To address data heterogeneity and imbalanced device distribution, the approach integrates personalized layers for local data adaptation and applies Bayesian aggregation with cumulative Beta distribution updates at edge and cloud levels. This allows for effective balancing of contributions from diverse client groups. Experimental results on three real-world IoT datasets and MNIST under non-IID settings demonstrate that H-FedSN significantly reduces communication costs by 58-238 times compared to HierFAVG, while achieving high accuracy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary H-FedSN is a new way to do federated learning in the Internet of Things (IoT). Traditional methods have problems when there are many devices with different data and some devices don’t contribute as much. H-FedSN solves this by using special layers that work together to reduce the amount of data sent between devices and make sure all devices contribute equally. This makes it faster, cheaper, and more accurate for training machine learning models in IoT scenarios. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Federated learning » Machine learning » Mask
