FedKD: Communication Efficient Federated Learning via Knowledge Distillation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13323v1
• Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 15:39:54 GMT
• Title: FedKD: Communication Efficient Federated Learning via Knowledge Distillation
• Authors: Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Ruixuan Liu, Lingjuan Lyu, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie
• Abstract summary: Federated learning is widely used to learn intelligent models from decentralized data. In federated learning, clients need to communicate their local model updates in each iteration of model learning. We propose a communication efficient federated learning method based on knowledge distillation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Federated learning is widely used to learn intelligent models from decentralized data. In federated learning, clients need to communicate their local model updates in each iteration of model learning. However, model updates are large in size if the model contains numerous parameters, and there usually needs many rounds of communication until model converges. Thus, the communication cost in federated learning can be quite heavy. In this paper, we propose a communication efficient federated learning method based on knowledge distillation. Instead of directly communicating the large models between clients and server, we propose an adaptive mutual distillation framework to reciprocally learn a student and a teacher model on each client, where only the student model is shared by different clients and updated collaboratively to reduce the communication cost. Both the teacher and student on each client are learned on its local data and the knowledge distilled from each other, where their distillation intensities are controlled by their prediction quality. To further reduce the communication cost, we propose a dynamic gradient approximation method based on singular value decomposition to approximate the exchanged gradients with dynamic precision. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets in different tasks show that our approach can effectively reduce the communication cost and achieve competitive results.

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