Summary of Personalized Federated Learning For Spatio-temporal Forecasting: a Dual Semantic Alignment-based Contrastive Approach, by Qingxiang Liu et al.
Personalized Federated Learning for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting: A Dual Semantic Alignment-Based Contrastive Approach
by Qingxiang Liu, Sheng Sun, Yuxuan Liang, Jingjing Xue, Min Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 Federated dUal sEmantic aLignment-based contraStive learning (FUELS) method is designed to address the limitations of existing federated learning (FL) approaches for spatio-temporal forecasting. By adaptively aligning positive and negative pairs based on semantic similarity, FUELS injects precise spatio-temporal heterogeneity into the latent representation space through auxiliary contrastive tasks. The method includes a hard negative filtering module for dynamic alignment of heterogeneous temporal representations and lightweight-but-efficient prototypes as client-level semantic representations. These prototypes enable the server to evaluate spatial similarity and generate client-customized global prototypes for inter-client contrastive tasks. Experimental results show that FUELS outperforms state-of-the-art methods, with communication costs decreasing by around 94%. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary FUELS is a new way of doing federated learning (FL) for spatio-temporal forecasting. Right now, FL can’t capture the differences in patterns over time and space. To fix this, FUELS aligns similar and different data points to learn about these patterns. It does this by using “contrastive tasks” that help the model learn what’s important. The method is tested on real-world data and shows better results than other methods, with a 94% reduction in communication costs. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment * Federated learning
