TurboSVM-FL: Boosting Federated Learning through SVM Aggregation for Lazy Clients

Mengdi Wang, Anna Bodonhelyi, Efe Bozkir, Enkelejda Kasneci

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Abstract

Federated learning is a distributed collaborative machine learning paradigm that has gained strong momentum in recent years. In federated learning, a central server periodically coordinates models with clients and aggregates the models trained locally by clients without necessitating access to local data. Despite its potential, the implementation of federated learning continues to encounter several challenges, predominantly the slow convergence that is largely due to data heterogeneity. The slow convergence becomes particularly problematic in cross-device federated learning scenarios where clients may be strongly limited by computing power and storage space, and hence counteracting methods that induce additional computation or memory cost on the client side such as auxiliary objective terms and larger training iterations can be impractical. In this paper, we propose a novel federated aggregation strategy, TurboSVM-FL, that poses no additional computation burden on the client side and can significantly accelerate convergence for federated classification task, especially when clients are “lazy” and train their models solely for few epochs for next global aggregation. TurboSVM-FL extensively utilizes support vector machine to conduct selective aggregation and max-margin spread-out regularization on class embeddings. We evaluate TurboSVM-FL on multiple datasets including FEMNIST, CelebA, and Shakespeare using user-independent validation with non-iid data distribution. Our results show that TurboSVM-FL can significantly outperform existing popular algorithms on convergence rate and reduce communication rounds while delivering better test metrics including accuracy, F1 score, and MCC.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)15546-15554
Seitenumfang9
FachzeitschriftProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Jahrgang38
Ausgabenummer14
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 25 März 2024
Veranstaltung38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2024 - Vancouver, Kanada
Dauer: 20 Feb. 202427 Feb. 2024

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