Federated Learning Optimization Algorithm for Automatic Weight Optimal.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

Federated learning (FL), a distributed machine-learning framework, is poised to effectively protect data privacy and security, and it also has been widely applied in variety of fields in recent years. However, the system heterogeneity and statistical heterogeneity of FL pose serious obstacles to the global model's quality. This study investigates server and client resource allocation in the context of FL system resource efficiency and offers the FedAwo optimization algorithm. This approach combines adaptive learning with federated learning, and makes full use of the computing resources of the server to calculate the optimal weight value corresponding to each client. This approach aggregated the global model according to the optimal weight value, which significantly minimizes the detrimental effects of statistical and system heterogeneity. In the process of traditional FL, we found that a large number of client trainings converge earlier than the specified epoch. However, according to the provisions of traditional FL, the client still needs to be trained for the specified epoch, which leads to the meaningless of a large number of calculations in the client. To further lower the training cost, the augmentation FedAwo  algorithm is proposed. The FedAwo  algorithm takes into account the heterogeneity of clients and sets the criteria for local convergence. When the local model of the client reaches the criteria, it will be returned to the server immediately. In this way, the epoch of the client can dynamically be modified adaptively. A large number of experiments based on MNIST and Fashion-MNIST public datasets reveal that the global model converges faster and has higher accuracy in FedAwo and FedAwo  algorithms than FedAvg, FedProx, and FedAdp baseline algorithms.

Authors

  • Xi Yu
    Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China. hhliu@iccas.ac.cn.
  • Li Li
    Department of Gastric Surgery, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, Sichuan Cancer Center, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
  • Xin He
    Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical, Guizhou, China.
  • Shengbo Chen
    School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China.
  • Lei Jiang
    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai 200433, China.