arXiv:2604.11562cs.CV2026-04

研究联邦学习在分布式遥感数据上的应用,解决地理分布导致的数据异构问题。

The Impact of Federated Learning on Distributed Remote Sensing Archives

  • 对比三种联邦学习策略在非独立同分布遥感数据上的表现。
  • 深层网络用FedProx更稳定,批量同步算法接近中心化精度。
  • 轻量模型LeNet在精度与通信开销间平衡最优,适合当前数据规模。

遥感档案本质上是分布式的:像哨兵1、2、3号任务已累计超过5拍字节的影像,存储并处理于多个地理分散的平台。在集中式方式下训练机器学习模型因数据量大、主权限制和地理分散而不可行。联邦学习(FL)通过保持数据本地化并仅交换模型更新来解决此问题。遥感领域的核心挑战在于地球观测数据的非独立同分布特性:标签分布随地理区域强烈变化,导致标准联邦学习算法收敛性能下降。本文对三种联邦学习策略——FedAvg、FedProx和批量同步并行(BSP)——在受控非独立同分布标签偏斜条件下应用于多标签遥感图像分类进行了系统性实证研究。评估了三种卷积神经网络架构(LeNet、AlexNet、ResNet-34)的深度影响,并分析了算法选择、模型容量、客户端比例、客户端数量、批大小和通信成本的联合效应。在UC Merced多标签数据集上的实验表明,对于深层架构,FedProx优于FedAvg;BSP在高序列通信代价下可逼近集中式精度;而LeNet在所考虑的数据规模下提供了最佳的精度-通信权衡。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Remote sensing archives are inherently distributed: Earth observation missions such as Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-3 have collectively accumulated more than 5 petabytes of imagery, stored and processed across many geographically dispersed platforms. Training machine learning models on such data in a centralized fashion is impractical due to data volume, sovereignty constraints, and geographic distribution. Federated learning (FL) addresses this by keeping data local and exchanging only model updates. A central challenge for remote sensing is the non-IID nature of Earth observation data: label distributions vary strongly by geographic region, degrading the convergence of standard FL algorithms. In this paper, we conduct a systematic empirical study of three FL strategies -- FedAvg, FedProx, and bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) -- applied to multi-label remote sensing image classification under controlled non-IID label-skew conditions. We evaluate three convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures of increasing depth (LeNet, AlexNet, and ResNet-34) and analyze the joint effect of algorithm choice, model capacity, client fraction, client count, batch size, and communication cost. Experiments on the UC Merced multi-label dataset show that FedProx outperforms FedAvg for deeper architectures under data heterogeneity, that BSP approaches centralized accuracy at the cost of high sequential communication, and that LeNet provides the best accuracy-communication trade-off for the dataset scale considered.

联邦学习遥感多标签分类非独立同分布

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