PPFL: A Personalized Federated Learning Framework for Heterogeneous Population

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14337v2
• Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:52:23 GMT
• Title: PPFL: A Personalized Federated Learning Framework for Heterogeneous Population
• Authors: Hao Di, Yi Yang, Haishan Ye, Xiangyu Chang,
• Abstract summary: Personalization aims to characterize individual preferences and is widely applied across many fields.<n>Conventional personalized methods operate in a centralized manner, potentially exposing raw data when pooling individual information.<n>We develop a flexible and interpretable personalized framework within the paradigm of a Population Personalized Federated Learning.
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• Abstract: Personalization aims to characterize individual preferences and is widely applied across many fields. However, conventional personalized methods operate in a centralized manner, potentially exposing raw data when pooling individual information. In this paper, with privacy considerations, we develop a flexible and interpretable personalized framework within the paradigm of federated learning, called \texttt{PPFL} (Population Personalized Federated Learning). By leveraging ``canonical models" to capture fundamental characteristics of a heterogeneous population and employing ``membership vectors" to reveal clients' preferences, \texttt{PPFL} models heterogeneity as clients' varying preferences for these characteristics. This approach provides substantial insights into client characteristics, which are lacking in existing Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) methods. Furthermore, we explore the relationship between \texttt{PPFL} and three main branches of PFL methods: clustered FL, multi-task PFL, and decoupling PFL, and demonstrate the advantages of \texttt{PPFL}. To solve \texttt{PPFL} (a non-convex optimization problem with linear constraints), we propose a novel random block coordinate descent algorithm and establish its convergence properties. We conduct experiments on both pathological and practical data sets, and the results validate the effectiveness of \texttt{PPFL}.

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