Federated Few-shot Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10234v3
• Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 14:11:00 GMT
• Title: Federated Few-shot Learning
• Authors: Song Wang, Xingbo Fu, Kaize Ding, Chen Chen, Huiyuan Chen, Jundong Li
• Abstract summary: Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn a machine learning model without exchanging their own local data. In practice, certain clients may only contain a limited number of samples (i.e., few-shot samples) We propose a novel federated few-shot learning framework with two separately updated models and dedicated training strategies.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn a machine learning model without exchanging their own local data. In this way, the server can exploit the computational power of all clients and train the model on a larger set of data samples among all clients. Although such a mechanism is proven to be effective in various fields, existing works generally assume that each client preserves sufficient data for training. In practice, however, certain clients may only contain a limited number of samples (i.e., few-shot samples). For example, the available photo data taken by a specific user with a new mobile device is relatively rare. In this scenario, existing FL efforts typically encounter a significant performance drop on these clients. Therefore, it is urgent to develop a few-shot model that can generalize to clients with limited data under the FL scenario. In this paper, we refer to this novel problem as federated few-shot learning. Nevertheless, the problem remains challenging due to two major reasons: the global data variance among clients (i.e., the difference in data distributions among clients) and the local data insufficiency in each client (i.e., the lack of adequate local data for training). To overcome these two challenges, we propose a novel federated few-shot learning framework with two separately updated models and dedicated training strategies to reduce the adverse impact of global data variance and local data insufficiency. Extensive experiments on four prevalent datasets that cover news articles and images validate the effectiveness of our framework compared with the state-of-the-art baselines. Our code is provided at https://github.com/SongW-SW/F2L.

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