Towards Active Participant-Centric Vertical Federated Learning: Some Representations May Be All You Need

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17648v1
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:07:00 GMT
• Title: Towards Active Participant-Centric Vertical Federated Learning: Some Representations May Be All You Need
• Authors: Jon Irureta, Jon Imaz, Aizea Lojo, Marco González, Iñigo Perona,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a novel simplified approach to Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) Active Participant-Centric VFL allows the active participant to do inference in a non collaborative fashion. This method integrates unsupervised representation learning with knowledge distillation to achieve comparable accuracy to traditional VFL methods.
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• Abstract: Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables collaborative model training across different participants with distinct features and common samples, while preserving data privacy. Existing VFL methodologies often struggle with realistic data partitions, typically incurring high communication costs and significant operational complexity. In this work, we introduce a novel simplified approach to VFL, Active Participant-Centric VFL (APC-VFL), that, to the best of our knowledge, is the first to require only a single communication round between participants, and allows the active participant to do inference in a non collaborative fashion. This method integrates unsupervised representation learning with knowledge distillation to achieve comparable accuracy to traditional VFL methods based on vertical split learning in classical settings, reducing required communication rounds by up to $4200\times$, while being more flexible. Our approach also shows improvements compared to non-federated local models, as well as a comparable VFL proposal, VFedTrans, offering an efficient and flexible solution for collaborative learning.

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