Research Area:  Machine Learning

Abstract:

In current deep learning paradigms, local training or the Standalone framework tends to result in overfitting and thus low utility. This problem can be addressed by Distributed or Federated Learning (FL) that leverages a parameter server to aggregate local model updates. However, all the existing FL frameworks have overlooked an important aspect of participation: collaborative fairness. In particular, all participants can receive the same or similar models, even the ones who contribute relatively less, and in extreme cases, nothing. To address this issue, we propose a novel Collaborative Fair Federated Learning (CFFL) framework which utilizes reputations to enforce participants to converge to different models, thus ensuring fairness and accuracy at the same time. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that CFFL achieves high fairness and performs comparably to the Distributed framework and better than the Standalone framework.

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Author(s) Name:  Lingjuan Lyu, Xinyi Xu, Qian Wang & Han Yu

Publisher name:  Springer

DOI:   10.1007/978-3-030-63076-8_14

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Paper Link:   https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-63076-8_14