A review on different techniques used to combat the non-IID and heterogeneous nature of data in FL

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00809v1
• Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 16:34:00 GMT
• Title: A review on different techniques used to combat the non-IID and heterogeneous nature of data in FL
• Authors: Venkataraman Natarajan Iyer
• Abstract summary: Federated Learning (FL) is a machine-learning approach enabling collaborative model training across multiple edge devices. The significance of FL is particularly pronounced in industries such as healthcare and finance, where data privacy holds paramount importance. This report delves into the issues arising from non-IID and heterogeneous data and explores current algorithms designed to address these challenges.
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• Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is a machine-learning approach enabling collaborative model training across multiple decentralized edge devices that hold local data samples, all without exchanging these samples. This collaborative process occurs under the supervision of a central server orchestrating the training or via a peer-to-peer network. The significance of FL is particularly pronounced in industries such as healthcare and finance, where data privacy holds paramount importance. However, training a model under the Federated learning setting brings forth several challenges, with one of the most prominent being the heterogeneity of data distribution among the edge devices. The data is typically non-independently and non-identically distributed (non-IID), thereby presenting challenges to model convergence. This report delves into the issues arising from non-IID and heterogeneous data and explores current algorithms designed to address these challenges.

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