FedCompetitors: Harmonious Collaboration in Federated Learning with Competing Participants

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11391v1
• Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:53:01 GMT
• Title: FedCompetitors: Harmonious Collaboration in Federated Learning with Competing Participants
• Authors: Shanli Tan, Hao Cheng, Xiaohu Wu, Han Yu, Tiantian He, Yew-Soon Ong, Chongjun Wang, and Xiaofeng Tao
• Abstract summary: Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving approach for collaborative training of machine learning models. It is crucial to select appropriate collaborators for each FL participant based on data complementarity. It is imperative to consider the inter-individual relationships among FL-PTs where some FL-PTs engage in competition.
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• Abstract: Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving approach for collaborative training of machine learning models. Given the potential data heterogeneity, it is crucial to select appropriate collaborators for each FL participant (FL-PT) based on data complementarity. Recent studies have addressed this challenge. Similarly, it is imperative to consider the inter-individual relationships among FL-PTs where some FL-PTs engage in competition. Although FL literature has acknowledged the significance of this scenario, practical methods for establishing FL ecosystems remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we extend a principle from the balance theory, namely ``the friend of my enemy is my enemy'', to ensure the absence of conflicting interests within an FL ecosystem. The extended principle and the resulting problem are formulated via graph theory and integer linear programming. A polynomial-time algorithm is proposed to determine the collaborators of each FL-PT. The solution guarantees high scalability, allowing even competing FL-PTs to smoothly join the ecosystem without conflict of interest. The proposed framework jointly considers competition and data heterogeneity. Extensive experiments on real-world and synthetic data demonstrate its efficacy compared to five alternative approaches, and its ability to establish efficient collaboration networks among FL-PTs.

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