An Efficient Virtual Data Generation Method for Reducing Communication in Federated Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12088v3
• Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 08:44:48 GMT
• Title: An Efficient Virtual Data Generation Method for Reducing Communication in Federated Learning
• Authors: Cheng Yang, Xue Yang, Dongxian Wu, Xiaohu Tang
• Abstract summary: A few classical schemes assume the server can extract the auxiliary information about training data of the participants from the local models to construct a central dummy dataset. The server uses the dummy dataset to finetune aggregated global model to achieve the target test accuracy in fewer communication rounds. In this paper, we summarize the above solutions into a data-based communication-efficient FL framework.
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• Abstract: Communication overhead is one of the major challenges in Federated Learning(FL). A few classical schemes assume the server can extract the auxiliary information about training data of the participants from the local models to construct a central dummy dataset. The server uses the dummy dataset to finetune aggregated global model to achieve the target test accuracy in fewer communication rounds. In this paper, we summarize the above solutions into a data-based communication-efficient FL framework. The key of the proposed framework is to design an efficient extraction module(EM) which ensures the dummy dataset has a positive effect on finetuning aggregated global model. Different from the existing methods that use generator to design EM, our proposed method, FedINIBoost borrows the idea of gradient match to construct EM. Specifically, FedINIBoost builds a proxy dataset of the real dataset in two steps for each participant at each communication round. Then the server aggregates all the proxy datasets to form a central dummy dataset, which is used to finetune aggregated global model. Extensive experiments verify the superiority of our method compared with the existing classical method, FedAVG, FedProx, Moon and FedFTG. Moreover, FedINIBoost plays a significant role in finetuning the performance of aggregated global model at the initial stage of FL.

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