FedAT: A High-Performance and Communication-Efficient Federated Learning System with Asynchronous Tiers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05958v2
• Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 02:45:47 GMT
• Title: FedAT: A High-Performance and Communication-Efficient Federated Learning System with Asynchronous Tiers
• Authors: Zheng Chai, Yujing Chen, Ali Anwar, Liang Zhao, Yue Cheng, Huzefa Rangwala
• Abstract summary: We present FedAT, a novel Federated learning method with Asynchronous Tiers under Non-i.i.d. data. FedAT minimizes the straggler effect with improved convergence speed and test accuracy. Results show that FedAT improves the prediction performance by up to 21.09%, and reduces the communication cost by up to 8.5x, compared to state-of-the-art FL methods.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Federated learning (FL) involves training a model over massive distributed devices, while keeping the training data localized. This form of collaborative learning exposes new tradeoffs among model convergence speed, model accuracy, balance across clients, and communication cost, with new challenges including: (1) straggler problem, where the clients lag due to data or (computing and network) resource heterogeneity, and (2) communication bottleneck, where a large number of clients communicate their local updates to a central server and bottleneck the server. Many existing FL methods focus on optimizing along only one dimension of the tradeoff space. Existing solutions use asynchronous model updating or tiering-based synchronous mechanisms to tackle the straggler problem. However, the asynchronous methods can easily create a network communication bottleneck, while tiering may introduce biases as tiering favors faster tiers with shorter response latencies. To address these issues, we present FedAT, a novel Federated learning method with Asynchronous Tiers under Non-i.i.d. data. FedAT synergistically combines synchronous intra-tier training and asynchronous cross-tier training. By bridging the synchronous and asynchronous training through tiering, FedAT minimizes the straggler effect with improved convergence speed and test accuracy. FedAT uses a straggler-aware, weighted aggregation heuristic to steer and balance the training for further accuracy improvement. FedAT compresses the uplink and downlink communications using an efficient, polyline-encoding-based compression algorithm, therefore minimizing the communication cost. Results show that FedAT improves the prediction performance by up to 21.09%, and reduces the communication cost by up to 8.5x, compared to state-of-the-art FL methods.

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