FedFeat+: A Robust Federated Learning Framework Through Federated Aggregation and Differentially Private Feature-Based Classifier Retraining

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06004v1
• Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:12:38 GMT
• Title: FedFeat+: A Robust Federated Learning Framework Through Federated Aggregation and Differentially Private Feature-Based Classifier Retraining
• Authors: Mrityunjoy Gain, Kitae Kim, Avi Deb Raha, Apurba Adhikary, Eui-Nam Huh, Zhu Han, Choong Seon Hong,
• Abstract summary: We propose the FedFeat+ framework, which distinctively separates feature extraction from classification.<n>We establish a balance between enhancing model accuracy and safeguarding individual privacy through the implementation of differential privacy mechanisms.<n>We validate our approach through empirical evaluations conducted on benchmark datasets, including CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, MNIST, and FMNIST.
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• Abstract: In this paper, we propose the FedFeat+ framework, which distinctively separates feature extraction from classification. We develop a two-tiered model training process: following local training, clients transmit their weights and some features extracted from the feature extractor from the final local epochs to the server. The server aggregates these models using the FedAvg method and subsequently retrains the global classifier utilizing the shared features. The classifier retraining process enhances the model's understanding of the holistic view of the data distribution, ensuring better generalization across diverse datasets. This improved generalization enables the classifier to adaptively influence the feature extractor during subsequent local training epochs. We establish a balance between enhancing model accuracy and safeguarding individual privacy through the implementation of differential privacy mechanisms. By incorporating noise into the feature vectors shared with the server, we ensure that sensitive data remains confidential. We present a comprehensive convergence analysis, along with theoretical reasoning regarding performance enhancement and privacy preservation. We validate our approach through empirical evaluations conducted on benchmark datasets, including CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, MNIST, and FMNIST, achieving high accuracy while adhering to stringent privacy guarantees. The experimental results demonstrate that the FedFeat+ framework, despite using only a lightweight two-layer CNN classifier, outperforms the FedAvg method in both IID and non-IID scenarios, achieving accuracy improvements ranging from 3.92 % to 12.34 % across CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and Fashion-MNIST datasets.

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