arXiv:2504.15847cs.AI2025-04被引 2

解决预算有限的联邦学习中,不兼容工作者导致效率下降的问题

CARE: Compatibility-Aware Incentive Mechanisms for Federated Learning with Budgeted Requesters

  • 设计兼容性感知激励机制,应对工人通信与数据不匹配问题
  • 在预算约束下,提升整体任务效率,性能优于现有方法
  • 适用于多请求方合作或独立决策的现实联邦学习场景

联邦学习(FL)允许请求方(如服务器)从工作者(如客户端)获取本地训练模型。由于工作者通常不愿无偿提供服务,现有研究通过经济激励来促进参与。然而,现有工作忽略了两个关键现实因素:一是工作者存在固有的不兼容特征(如通信通道和数据源差异),可能导致通信效率低下和模型泛化能力差;二是请求方预算有限,限制可雇佣的工作者数量。本文研究多个预算受限的请求方如何从具有私有训练成本的不兼容工作者中获取服务。考虑两种情形:合作预算(请求方共享预算以提升整体收益)与非合作预算(各请求方独立优化自身收益)。为此,提出兼容性感知激励机制 CARE-CO 与 CARE-NO,分别用于两种场景,能真实诱导工作者报告私有成本,并决定雇佣对象与奖励,在满足预算约束的同时保证个体理性、真实性、预算可行性及近似最优性能。使用真实数据集进行大量实验表明,所提机制显著优于现有基线。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Federated learning (FL) is a promising approach that allows requesters (\eg, servers) to obtain local training models from workers (e.g., clients). Since workers are typically unwilling to provide training services/models freely and voluntarily, many incentive mechanisms in FL are designed to incentivize participation by offering monetary rewards from requesters. However, existing studies neglect two crucial aspects of real-world FL scenarios. First, workers can possess inherent incompatibility characteristics (e.g., communication channels and data sources), which can lead to degradation of FL efficiency (e.g., low communication efficiency and poor model generalization). Second, the requesters are budgeted, which limits the amount of workers they can hire for their tasks. In this paper, we investigate the scenario in FL where multiple budgeted requesters seek training services from incompatible workers with private training costs. We consider two settings: the cooperative budget setting where requesters cooperate to pool their budgets to improve their overall utility and the non-cooperative budget setting where each requester optimizes their utility within their own budgets. To address efficiency degradation caused by worker incompatibility, we develop novel compatibility-aware incentive mechanisms, CARE-CO and CARE-NO, for both settings to elicit true private costs and determine workers to hire for requesters and their rewards while satisfying requester budget constraints. Our mechanisms guarantee individual rationality, truthfulness, budget feasibility, and approximation performance. We conduct extensive experiments using real-world datasets to show that the proposed mechanisms significantly outperform existing baselines.

联邦学习激励机制预算约束兼容性

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