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Redundancy Management in Federated Learning for Fast Communication


Abstract:

One of the most critical challenges of federated learning (FL) is to send data efficiently and reliably over the noisy wireless channels between the clients and server to...Show More

Abstract:

One of the most critical challenges of federated learning (FL) is to send data efficiently and reliably over the noisy wireless channels between the clients and server to achieve target learning accuracy as fast as possible. To achieve this goal, we design effective error correction coded FL with managed retransmissions. Rather than using Shannon capacity as the performance measure to design the communication mechanisms for FL, our approach relies critically on learning accuracy. Our fundamental idea is based on the observation that Stochastic Gradient Decent (SGD) and its family can tolerate some errors in the course of training. Inspired by this, to reduce the communication burden without degrading the learning accuracy, our FL framework with Managed Redundancy (FL-MR) has two phases: (i) the No-Retransmission phase, where retransmissions are never performed even in case of erroneous decoding of data and (ii) the Select Retransmission phase, where only some carefully selected data packets are retransmitted. Our extensive simulation results demonstrate that the proposed coded FL system achieves target accuracies much faster than the baseline coded approach.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications ( Volume: 71, Issue: 11, November 2023)
Page(s): 6332 - 6347
Date of Publication: 04 August 2023

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