FEDEXCHANGE: Bridging the Domain Gap in Federated Object Detection for Free

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10503v1
• Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:39:25 GMT
• Title: FEDEXCHANGE: Bridging the Domain Gap in Federated Object Detection for Free
• Authors: Haolin Yuan, Jingtao Li, Weiming Zhuang, Chen Chen, Lingjuan Lyu,
• Abstract summary: Federated Object Detection (FOD) enables clients to collaboratively train a global object detection model without accessing their local data from diverse domains.<n>Existing FOD methods often overlook the hardware constraints of edge devices and introduce local training regularizations that incur high computational costs.<n>We propose FEDEXCHANGE, a novel FOD framework that bridges domain gaps without introducing additional local computational overhead.
• Score: 58.34974215853841
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Federated Object Detection (FOD) enables clients to collaboratively train a global object detection model without accessing their local data from diverse domains. However, significant variations in environment, weather, and other domain specific factors hinder performance, making cross domain generalization a key challenge. Existing FOD methods often overlook the hardware constraints of edge devices and introduce local training regularizations that incur high computational costs, limiting real-world applicability. In this paper, we propose FEDEXCHANGE, a novel FOD framework that bridges domain gaps without introducing additional local computational overhead. FEDEXCHANGE employs a server side dynamic model exchange strategy that enables each client to gain insights from other clients' domain data without direct data sharing. Specifically, FEDEXCHANGE allows the server to alternate between model aggregation and model exchange. During aggregation rounds, the server aggregates all local models as usual. In exchange rounds, FEDEXCHANGE clusters and exchanges local models based on distance measures, allowing local models to learn from a variety of domains. As all operations are performed on the server side, clients can achieve improved cross domain utility without any additional computational overhead. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that FEDEXCHANGE enhances FOD performance, achieving 1.6X better mean average precision in challenging domains, such as rainy conditions, while requiring only 0.8X the computational resources compared to baseline methods.

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