Joint Superposition Coding and Training for Federated Learning over Multi-Width Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02543v1
• Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2021 11:17:17 GMT
• Title: Joint Superposition Coding and Training for Federated Learning over Multi-Width Neural Networks
• Authors: Hankyul Baek, Won Joon Yun, Yunseok Kwak, Soyi Jung, Mingyue Ji, Mehdi Bennis, Jihong Park, Joongheon Kim
• Abstract summary: This paper aims to integrate two synergetic technologies, federated learning (FL) and width-adjustable slimmable neural network (SNN) FL preserves data privacy by exchanging the locally trained models of mobile devices. SNNs are however non-trivial, particularly under wireless connections with time-varying channel conditions. We propose a communication and energy-efficient SNN-based FL (named SlimFL) that jointly utilizes superposition coding (SC) for global model aggregation and superposition training (ST) for updating local models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper aims to integrate two synergetic technologies, federated learning (FL) and width-adjustable slimmable neural network (SNN) architectures. FL preserves data privacy by exchanging the locally trained models of mobile devices. By adopting SNNs as local models, FL can flexibly cope with the time-varying energy capacities of mobile devices. Combining FL and SNNs is however non-trivial, particularly under wireless connections with time-varying channel conditions. Furthermore, existing multi-width SNN training algorithms are sensitive to the data distributions across devices, so are ill-suited to FL. Motivated by this, we propose a communication and energy-efficient SNN-based FL (named SlimFL) that jointly utilizes superposition coding (SC) for global model aggregation and superposition training (ST) for updating local models. By applying SC, SlimFL exchanges the superposition of multiple width configurations that are decoded as many as possible for a given communication throughput. Leveraging ST, SlimFL aligns the forward propagation of different width configurations, while avoiding the inter-width interference during backpropagation. We formally prove the convergence of SlimFL. The result reveals that SlimFL is not only communication-efficient but also can counteract non-IID data distributions and poor channel conditions, which is also corroborated by simulations.

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