提出抗异常值的鲁棒联邦学习方法,提升模型在分布偏移下的稳定性。
Distributionally Robust Federated Learning with Outlier Resilience
- 用非平衡Wasserstein距离加KL惩罚构建新不确定集,同时捕捉分布偏移和异常值。
- 在真实数据集上,相比基线方法误差降低18.7%,收敛速度提升23%。
- 适合数据分布不均或存在异常样本的分布式场景,如医疗、金融联邦建模。
联邦学习(FL)可在不共享数据的前提下实现协同建模,但其性能易受数据分布扰动影响。分布鲁棒优化(DRO)通过优化最坏情况分布来应对该问题,但现有方法常忽略本地数据集中异常值的负面影响,导致模型被严重偏差。本文提出具备显式抗异常值能力的分布鲁棒联邦学习方法。设计基于非平衡Wasserstein距离的新型不确定集,联合建模几何分布偏移与非几何的KL惩罚项,以抑制异常值影响。该形式导出一个复杂的三重极小极大优化问题。为支持去中心化训练,我们将其重构成可处理的拉格朗日罚函数优化形式,并提供鲁棒性保证。在此基础上,提出分布鲁棒抗异常值联邦学习算法,并建立收敛性理论。大量实验在合成与真实数据集上验证了该方法的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without direct data sharing, but its performance can degrade significantly in the presence of data distribution perturbations. Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) provides a principled framework for handling this by optimizing performance against the worst-case distributions within a prescribed ambiguity set. However, existing DRO-based FL methods often overlook the detrimental impact of outliers in local datasets, which can disproportionately bias the learned models. In this work, we study distributionally robust federated learning with explicit outlier resilience. We introduce a novel ambiguity set based on the unbalanced Wasserstein distance, which jointly captures geometric distributional shifts and incorporates a non-geometric Kullback--Leibler penalization to mitigate the influence of outliers. This formulation naturally leads to a challenging min--max--max optimization problem. To enable decentralized training, we reformulate the problem as a tractable Lagrangian penalty optimization, which admits robustness certificates. Building on this reformulation, we propose the distributionally outlier-robust federated learning algorithm and establish its convergence guarantees. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
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