arXiv:2508.09866cs.LG2025-08AAAI被引 3

首个兼顾效率与性能公平的联邦遗忘算法,解决客户端卸载不公问题。

FedShard: Federated Unlearning with Efficiency Fairness and Performance Fairness

  • 自适应调度机制平衡收敛、遗忘效率与公平性矛盾
  • 实测比重训练快1.3–6.2倍,比最优方法快4.9倍
  • 提出新公平性度量,适用于防范恶意退出和投毒攻击

为保护联邦学习中客户端的被遗忘权,联邦遗忘旨在移除离线客户端的数据贡献。现有研究多关注遗忘效率与效果,但对去中心化客户端在遗忘过程中的效率公平性与性能公平性仍缺乏探索。本文提出FedShard,首个同时保障效率公平与性能公平的联邦遗忘算法。该算法自适应应对收敛、遗忘效率与遗忘公平性之间的权衡挑战。我们还提出两种新度量指标,用于定量评估遗忘算法的公平性,并证明其满足现有公平性度量中的经典性质。理论分析与数值实验验证了FedShard在遗忘性能与效率上的公平性。实验表明,FedShard可缓解级联退出与投毒攻击带来的不公平风险,实现客户端间更均衡的遗忘开销。结果表明,相比从头重训,其数据遗忘速度提升1.3–6.2倍;相较当前最优精确遗忘方法,提速达4.9倍。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

To protect clients' right to be forgotten in federated learning, federated unlearning aims to remove the data contribution of leaving clients from the global learned model. While current studies mainly focused on enhancing unlearning efficiency and effectiveness, the crucial aspects of efficiency fairness and performance fairness among decentralized clients during unlearning have remained largely unexplored. In this study, we introduce FedShard, the first federated unlearning algorithm designed to concurrently guarantee both efficiency fairness and performance fairness. FedShard adaptively addresses the challenges introduced by dilemmas among convergence, unlearning efficiency, and unlearning fairness. Furthermore, we propose two novel metrics to quantitatively assess the fairness of unlearning algorithms, which we prove to satisfy well-known properties in other existing fairness measurements. Our theoretical analysis and numerical evaluation validate FedShard's fairness in terms of both unlearning performance and efficiency. We demonstrate that FedShard mitigates unfairness risks such as cascaded leaving and poisoning attacks and realizes more balanced unlearning costs among clients. Experimental results indicate that FedShard accelerates the data unlearning process 1.3-6.2 times faster than retraining from scratch and 4.9 times faster than the state-of-the-art exact unlearning methods.

联邦学习隐私保护公平性遗忘机制

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