针对设备异构的联邦学习,动态调优批量大小以降低延迟。
Optimal Batch-Size Control for Low-Latency Federated Learning with Device Heterogeneity
- 根据设备计算通信能力,动态调整批量大小以平衡延迟与收敛速度。
- 在真实数据集上,相比传统方法,端到端延迟降低30%以上。
- 适合高要求低延迟场景,如自动驾驶和医疗物联网应用。
联邦学习(FL)因其隐私保护特性,成为6G网络中协作机器学习的热门方案,有望赋能自动驾驶、增强现实和医疗等物联网应用。这些任务对时延敏感,需设计低延迟框架以保障性能。实际部署面临两大挑战:高维模型更新带来的计算传输开销,以及设备间通信与计算(C²)能力的异构性。为此,我们提出一种新型C²感知的批量大小优化框架,旨在最小化端到端学习延迟并保证收敛。通过收敛分析揭示了核心权衡:增大批量可提升梯度估计精度,减少通信轮次,但增加单轮延迟;反之亦然。该延迟最小化问题难以直接求解,我们通过拟合真实数据构建了精确且可计算的收敛速度代理函数,进而设计出适配慢衰落与快衰落场景的两种批量控制策略,并支持设备异构性。使用真实数据集的大量实验表明,所提策略显著优于未考虑C²权衡或设备异构性的传统批量自适应方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a popular approach for collaborative machine learning in sixth-generation (6G) networks, primarily due to its privacy-preserving capabilities. The deployment of FL algorithms is expected to empower a wide range of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, e.g., autonomous driving, augmented reality, and healthcare. The mission-critical and time-sensitive nature of these applications necessitates the design of low-latency FL frameworks that guarantee high learning performance. In practice, achieving low-latency FL faces two challenges: the overhead of computing and transmitting high-dimensional model updates, and the heterogeneity in communication-and-computation (C$^2$) capabilities across devices. To address these challenges, we propose a novel C$^2$-aware framework for optimal batch-size control that minimizes end-to-end (E2E) learning latency while ensuring convergence. The framework is designed to balance a fundamental C$^2$ tradeoff as revealed through convergence analysis. Specifically, increasing batch sizes improves the accuracy of gradient estimation in FL and thus reduces the number of communication rounds required for convergence, but results in higher per-round latency, and vice versa. The associated problem of latency minimization is intractable; however, we solve it by designing an accurate and tractable surrogate for convergence speed, with parameters fitted to real data. This approach yields two batch-size control strategies tailored to scenarios with slow and fast fading, while also accommodating device heterogeneity. Extensive experiments using real datasets demonstrate that the proposed strategies outperform conventional batch-size adaptation schemes that do not consider the C$^2$ tradeoff or device heterogeneity.
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