Concordia: Self-Improving Synthetic Tables for Federated LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09855v2
• Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 00:37:30 GMT
• Title: Concordia: Self-Improving Synthetic Tables for Federated LLMs
• Abstract summary: Federated learning enables training large language models (LLMs) without sharing raw data.<n>We propose Concordia, a framework that aligns synthetic data generation with federated validation utility.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables training large language models (LLMs) without sharing raw data, but adapting LLMs under strict data isolation and non-IID client distributions remains challenging in practice. Synthetic data offers a natural privacy-preserving surrogate for local training, yet existing federated pipelines typically treat synthetic generation as static or loosely coupled with downstream optimization, leading to rapidly diminishing utility under heterogeneous clients. We study federated adaptation of LLMs on tabular tasks where raw records and validation data cannot be shared, and local training must rely entirely on synthetic tables. We propose Concordia, a tri-level optimization framework that aligns synthetic data generation with federated validation utility despite these constraints. At the client level, models are adapted via parameter-efficient LoRA training on synthetic tables. Clients additionally learn lightweight utility scorers from private validation feedback to reweight synthetic samples during local training. At the outer level, each client refines its own synthetic table generator using group-relative policy optimization (GRPO), guided by an ensemble of heterogeneous scorers shared across clients, without aggregating generator parameters or exposing validation data. Experiments on privacy-sensitive tabular benchmarks from finance and healthcare demonstrate that Concordia consistently improves federated performance, cross-client stability, and robustness to distribution shift compared to static and decoupled synthetic-data baselines.

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