TARGET: Federated Class-Continual Learning via Exemplar-Free Distillation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06937v3
• Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:09:19 GMT
• Title: TARGET: Federated Class-Continual Learning via Exemplar-Free Distillation
• Authors: Jie Zhang, Chen Chen, Weiming Zhuang, Lingjuan Lv
• Abstract summary: This paper focuses on an under-explored yet important problem: Federated Class-Continual Learning (FCCL) Existing FCCL works suffer from various limitations, such as requiring additional datasets or storing the private data from previous tasks. We propose a novel method called TARGET, which alleviates catastrophic forgetting in FCCL while preserving client data privacy.
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• Abstract: This paper focuses on an under-explored yet important problem: Federated Class-Continual Learning (FCCL), where new classes are dynamically added in federated learning. Existing FCCL works suffer from various limitations, such as requiring additional datasets or storing the private data from previous tasks. In response, we first demonstrate that non-IID data exacerbates catastrophic forgetting issue in FL. Then we propose a novel method called TARGET (federat\textbf{T}ed cl\textbf{A}ss-continual lea\textbf{R}nin\textbf{G} via \textbf{E}xemplar-free dis\textbf{T}illation), which alleviates catastrophic forgetting in FCCL while preserving client data privacy. Our proposed method leverages the previously trained global model to transfer knowledge of old tasks to the current task at the model level. Moreover, a generator is trained to produce synthetic data to simulate the global distribution of data on each client at the data level. Compared to previous FCCL methods, TARGET does not require any additional datasets or storing real data from previous tasks, which makes it ideal for data-sensitive scenarios.

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