提出异步联邦学习算法,解决客户端延迟与通信开销问题。
Asynchronous Federated Learning: A Scalable Approach for Decentralized Machine Learning
- 客户端独立异步更新模型,避免全局同步等待
- 理论证明在延迟和模型陈旧下仍能收敛,支持非IID数据
- 适合资源受限、网络不稳定的分布式场景,提升系统效率
联邦学习(FL)已成为一种强大的去中心化机器学习范式,可在不共享原始数据的前提下实现跨客户端的协同模型训练。然而,传统FL方法依赖同步客户端更新,常因异构性和动态环境导致显著延迟与高通信开销,限制了其可扩展性与效率。为此,本文提出异步联邦学习(AFL)算法,允许客户端独立异步更新全局模型。关键贡献包括在客户端延迟与模型陈旧条件下对AFL的完整收敛性分析。通过鞅差序列理论与方差界,确保异步更新下的鲁棒收敛。假设局部目标函数为强凸,我们推导出随机客户端采样下的梯度方差上界,并建立量化客户端延迟影响的递推公式。此外,通过在去中心化线性回归与支持向量机(SVM)分类器上训练并对比同步FL算法,验证了AFL在处理非独立同分布(non-IID)数据方面的有效性。所提AFL算法克服了传统方法因全局同步造成的低效及客户端漂移问题,提升了真实场景中异构客户端群体与动态网络条件下的可扩展性、鲁棒性与效率。结果表明,AFL在大规模隐私保护应用中具有重要潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for decentralized machine learning, enabling collaborative model training across diverse clients without sharing raw data. However, traditional FL approaches often face limitations in scalability and efficiency due to their reliance on synchronous client updates, which can result in significant delays and increased communication overhead, particularly in heterogeneous and dynamic environments. To address these challenges in this paper, we propose an Asynchronous Federated Learning (AFL) algorithm, which allows clients to update the global model independently and asynchronously. Our key contributions include a comprehensive convergence analysis of AFL in the presence of client delays and model staleness. By leveraging martingale difference sequence theory and variance bounds, we ensure robust convergence despite asynchronous updates. Assuming strongly convex local objective functions, we establish bounds on gradient variance under random client sampling and derive a recursion formula quantifying the impact of client delays on convergence. Furthermore, we demonstrate the practical applicability of the AFL algorithm by training decentralized linear regression and Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classifiers and compare its results with synchronous FL algorithm to effectively handling non-IID data distributed among clients. The proposed AFL algorithm addresses key limitations of traditional FL methods, such as inefficiency due to global synchronization and susceptibility to client drift. It enhances scalability, robustness, and efficiency in real-world settings with heterogeneous client populations and dynamic network conditions. Our results underscore the potential of AFL to drive advancements indistributed learning systems, particularly for large-scale, privacy-preserving applications in resource-constrained environments.
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