提出异步联邦遗忘框架,实现医疗影像模型高效删除用户数据。
Asynchronous Federated Unlearning with Invariance Calibration for Medical Imaging
- 分离删除流程与训练,支持客户端异步遗忘不阻塞全局训练
- 服务器端校准不变性,防止被删数据在后续训练中重现
- 在三个医学数据集上效果接近重训练,延迟显著低于同步方法
联邦遗忘(FU)是联邦学习(FL)中新兴的范式,使参与方能够完全移除其对全局模型的贡献,以满足数据保护法规中“被遗忘权”的要求。然而,现有方法多依赖同步协调,迫使整个联邦系统暂停等待落后设备完成删除,因设备异构性导致显著延迟。此外,这些方法常存在被删数据的影响仅暂时抑制、在后续训练中重新出现的问题。为此,本文提出异步联邦遗忘与不变性校准框架(AFU-IC),专为医疗影像设计,将删除过程与全局训练流程解耦,使目标客户端可异步执行遗忘而不中断全局训练。同时,服务器端引入不变性校准机制,防止模型重新学习被删数据。在三个医学基准上的大量实验表明,AFU-IC 在遗忘效果和模型保真度方面达到与黄金标准重训练相当的水平,且相比同步基线显著降低实际运行时间。该方法确保了跨数据中心医疗联邦学习的高效、合规与可靠。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Federated Unlearning (FU) is an emerging paradigm in Federated Learning (FL) that enables participating clients to fully remove their contributions from a trained global model, driven by data protection regulations that mandate the right to be forgotten. However, existing FU methods mostly rely on synchronous coordination. This requirement forces the entire federation to halt and wait for stragglers to complete erasure, creating significant delays due to device heterogeneity. Furthermore, these methods often face the problem that the influence of erased data is merely suppressed temporarily and resurfaces during subsequent training, rather than being genuinely removed. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes Asynchronous Federated Unlearning with Invariance Calibration (AFU-IC), a novel framework for medical imaging that decouples the erasure process from the global training workflow. This enables the target client to perform unlearning asynchronously without interrupting global training. Meanwhile, a server-side invariance calibration mechanism prevents the model from relearning the erased data. Extensive experiments on three medical benchmarks demonstrate that AFU-IC achieves unlearning efficacy and model fidelity comparable to gold-standard retraining while significantly reducing wall-clock latency compared to synchronous baselines. AFU-IC ensures efficient, compliant and reliable FL in cross-silo medical environments.
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