arXiv:2501.07536cs.LGcs.HC2025-01

用手机当移动数据快递员,边走边学边传模型,更私密更快捷。

ML Mule: Mobile-Driven Context-Aware Collaborative Learning

  • 手机作为移动学习载体,在物理空间中传递模型快照。
  • 相比传统方法,收敛速度更快,模型准确率更高。
  • 适合需要隐私保护的智能环境,如智能家居、城市感知。

人工智能已广泛应用于日常场景,从计算机视觉的目标检测到大语言模型生成邮件,再到智能家居的轻量级模型。这些模型通常存储于中心化数据中心,导致隐私风险高、基础设施成本大,且难以实现实时个性化体验。联邦学习与完全去中心化学习虽缓解部分问题,但仍依赖中心服务器或受通信限制而收敛缓慢。我们提出 ML Mule,利用移动设备作为‘搬运工’,在物理空间中携带并传输模型快照,使设备在共同空间中自发形成协作群体,实现模型协同进化并保护用户隐私。该方法克服了传统、联邦及完全去中心化学习的主要缺陷,代表了一类更鲁棒、分布更广、更个性化的新型机器学习范式,推动智能、自适应、真正上下文感知的环境落地。实验表明,ML Mule 收敛更快,模型准确率优于现有方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Artificial intelligence has been integrated into nearly every aspect of daily life, powering applications from object detection with computer vision to large language models for writing emails and compact models for use in smart homes. These machine learning models at times cater to the needs of individual users but are often detached from them, as they are typically stored and processed in centralized data centers. This centralized approach raises privacy concerns, incurs high infrastructure costs, and struggles to provide real time, personalized experiences. Federated and fully decentralized learning methods have been proposed to address these issues, but they still depend on centralized servers or face slow convergence due to communication constraints. We propose ML Mule, an approach that utilizes individual mobile devices as 'mules' to train and transport model snapshots as the mules move through physical spaces, sharing these models with the physical 'spaces' the mules inhabit. This method implicitly forms affinity groups among devices associated with users who share particular spaces, enabling collaborative model evolution and protecting users' privacy. Our approach addresses several major shortcomings of traditional, federated, and fully decentralized learning systems. ML Mule represents a new class of machine learning methods that are more robust, distributed, and personalized, bringing the field closer to realizing the original vision of intelligent, adaptive, and genuinely context-aware smart environments. Our results show that ML Mule converges faster and achieves higher model accuracy compared to other existing methods.

移动学习隐私保护分布式

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