arXiv:2602.12014cs.LG2026-02AAAI

用分组相对奖励实现私密优化大模型,提升跨域性能

FedGRPO: Privately Optimizing Foundation Models with Group-Relative Rewards from Domain Client

  • 通过轻量信心图选专家,按问题匹配最适客户端
  • 以奖励值替代参数通信,降低隐私风险与传输开销
  • 支持异构设备并行评估,适合多领域私密协作场景

联邦基础模型(FedFMs)的一个重要方向是利用小客户端数据提升服务器端大模型性能。现有基于模型或表征的知识迁移方法要么需要昂贵的本地训练,要么带来高通信成本并引入不可避免的隐私风险。本文将该问题重新建模为强化学习风格的评估过程,提出FedGRPO——一种隐私保护框架,包含两个模块:第一模块基于辅助数据构建轻量信心图,实现基于能力的专家选择;第二模块借鉴组相对策略优化(GRPO)中的“组相对”思想,将每个问题及其解答逻辑组合成候选策略,分发给选定的专家客户端,并仅通过联邦组相对损失函数聚合标量奖励信号。通过交换奖励值而非数据或模型更新,FedGRPO显著降低隐私风险和通信开销,同时支持异构设备上的并行评估。在多种领域任务上的实证结果表明,相比传统FedFMs基线,FedGRPO在下游准确率和通信效率方面均表现更优。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

One important direction of Federated Foundation Models (FedFMs) is leveraging data from small client models to enhance the performance of a large server-side foundation model. Existing methods based on model level or representation level knowledge transfer either require expensive local training or incur high communication costs and introduce unavoidable privacy risks. We reformulate this problem as a reinforcement learning style evaluation process and propose FedGRPO, a privacy preserving framework comprising two modules. The first module performs competence-based expert selection by building a lightweight confidence graph from auxiliary data to identify the most suitable clients for each question. The second module leverages the "Group Relative" concept from the Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) framework by packaging each question together with its solution rationale into candidate policies, dispatching these policies to a selected subset of expert clients, and aggregating solely the resulting scalar reward signals via a federated group-relative loss function. By exchanging reward values instead of data or model updates, FedGRPO reduces privacy risk and communication overhead while enabling parallel evaluation across heterogeneous devices. Empirical results on diverse domain tasks demonstrate that FedGRPO achieves superior downstream accuracy and communication efficiency compared to conventional FedFMs baselines.

联邦学习大模型优化隐私保护强化学习

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