Summary of Knfu: Effective Knowledge Fusion, by S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi et al.
KnFu: Effective Knowledge Fusion
by S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi, S. Kawa Atapour, Jamshid Abouei, Arash Mohammadi
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Mar 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 The Federated Learning (FL) paradigm has emerged as a decentralized approach for collaborative model training across multiple nodes, ensuring data privacy and security. However, conventional FL faces challenges such as gradient inversion attacks, uniform architecture restrictions, and model heterogeneity due to non-IID local datasets. To address these issues, the Federated Knowledge Distillation (FKD) approach was developed, which extracts knowledge from a well-trained teacher model and transfers it to student models. Despite its effectiveness, FKD still faces the model drift issue, emphasizing the need for innovative mechanisms to evaluate the relevance and effectiveness of each client’s knowledge. The proposed Effective Knowledge Fusion (KnFu) algorithm evaluates knowledge and fuses only semantic neighbors’ effective knowledge for each client. Experiments on MNIST and CIFAR10 datasets demonstrate the superiority of KnFu compared to state-of-the-art counterparts. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Federated Learning is a way for machines to work together and learn from each other without sharing their data. This helps keep sensitive information private, but it also makes it harder to make sure all the models are learning the same thing. A new approach called Federated Knowledge Distillation tries to help by transferring knowledge from one strong model to others. However, this still has its limitations. The main challenge is that not everything learned from one place will be useful elsewhere. To solve this problem, researchers propose an algorithm called Effective Knowledge Fusion. This algorithm helps machines decide which knowledge is important and share only the good stuff. The results show that this approach works better than previous methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Federated learning * Knowledge distillation * Teacher model
