The Impact of Data Distribution on Fairness and Robustness in Federated Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01274v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:04:50 GMT
• Title: The Impact of Data Distribution on Fairness and Robustness in Federated Learning
• Authors: Mustafa Safa Ozdayi and Murat Kantarcioglu
• Abstract summary: Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning protocol that allows a set of agents to collaboratively train a model without sharing their datasets. In this work, we look at how variations in local data distributions affect the fairness and the properties of the trained models.
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• Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning protocol that allows a set of agents to collaboratively train a model without sharing their datasets. This makes FL particularly suitable for settings where data privacy is desired. However, it has been observed that the performance of FL is closely related to the similarity of the local data distributions of agents. Particularly, as the data distributions of agents differ, the accuracy of the trained models drop. In this work, we look at how variations in local data distributions affect the fairness and the robustness properties of the trained models in addition to the accuracy. Our experimental results indicate that, the trained models exhibit higher bias, and become more susceptible to attacks as local data distributions differ. Importantly, the degradation in the fairness, and robustness can be much more severe than the accuracy. Therefore, we reveal that small variations that have little impact on the accuracy could still be important if the trained model is to be deployed in a fairness/security critical context.

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