arXiv:2511.22080cs.LGcs.AI2025-11被引 2

提出FedWMSAM方法,解决联邦学习中动量与平滑感知优化的兼容性问题。

A Fast and Flat Federated Learning Method via Weighted Momentum and Sharpness-Aware Minimization

  • 用服务器聚合动量生成全局扰动,对齐本地与全局优化方向。
  • 通过余弦相似度自适应切换,实现早动量晚平滑的训练阶段控制。
  • 理论证明扰动方差受数据分布影响,实验证明在非独立同分布下更稳定高效。

在联邦学习中,模型需在严苛通信预算下快速收敛,并在非独立同分布客户端分布上保持泛化能力。现有常用技术包括客户端/服务器动量加速进展,以及平滑感知最小化(SAM)偏好平坦解。然而,简单结合动量与SAM在非独立同分布联邦学习中存在两个未被揭示的结构性缺陷:局部-全局曲率错位(本地SAM方向未必反映全局损失几何)与动量回声振荡(累积动量导致后期不稳定性)。我们首次系统识别并建模这两类失效模式,提出FedWMSAM方法:首先,基于服务器聚合动量构建动量引导的全局扰动,使客户端的SAM方向与全局下降几何对齐,实现单次反向传播的近似SAM以保持效率;其次,引入余弦相似度自适应规则,实现早期动量主导、后期SAM主导的两阶段训练流程。理论上,我们给出了非独立同分布下的收敛边界,显式建模扰动引起的方差 $σ_ρ^2=σ^2+(Lρ)^2$ 及其对 $(S, K, R, N)$ 的依赖关系。在多个数据集和模型架构上的大量实验验证了该方法的有效性、适应性和鲁棒性,显著优于现有方案。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In federated learning (FL), models must \emph{converge quickly} under tight communication budgets while \emph{generalizing} across non-IID client distributions. These twin requirements have naturally led to two widely used techniques: client/server \emph{momentum} to accelerate progress, and \emph{sharpness-aware minimization} (SAM) to prefer flat solutions. However, simply combining momentum and SAM leaves two structural issues unresolved in non-IID FL. We identify and formalize two failure modes: \emph{local-global curvature misalignment} (local SAM directions need not reflect the global loss geometry) and \emph{momentum-echo oscillation} (late-stage instability caused by accumulated momentum). To our knowledge, these failure modes have not been jointly articulated and addressed in the FL literature. We propose \textbf{FedWMSAM} to address both failure modes. First, we construct a momentum-guided global perturbation from server-aggregated momentum to align clients' SAM directions with the global descent geometry, enabling a \emph{single-backprop} SAM approximation that preserves efficiency. Second, we couple momentum and SAM via a cosine-similarity adaptive rule, yielding an early-momentum, late-SAM two-phase training schedule. We provide a non-IID convergence bound that \emph{explicitly models the perturbation-induced variance} $σ_ρ^2=σ^2+(Lρ)^2$ and its dependence on $(S, K, R, N)$ on the theory side. We conduct extensive experiments on multiple datasets and model architectures, and the results validate the effectiveness, adaptability, and robustness of our method, demonstrating its superiority in addressing the optimization challenges of Federated Learning. Our code is available at https://github.com/Huang-Yongzhi/NeurlPS_FedWMSAM.

联邦学习优化算法平滑感知动量机制

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