arXiv:2605.18892cs.LGcs.AI2026-05

不共享数据也能评估客户端贡献,提升联邦学习公平性

Data-Free Client Contribution Estimation via Logit Maximization for Federated Learning

论文配图:Data-Free Client Contribution Estimation via Logit Maximization for Federated Learning
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  • 通过最大化输出置信度,无数据估算各客户端对每类的贡献
  • 在极端标签偏斜下,使少数类准确率提升12.3%以上
  • 适合隐私敏感场景,兼容现有联邦学习流程

联邦学习(FL)允许多方协作训练视觉模型,但隐私和监管限制导致数据无法集中。实际部署中常出现严重类别不平衡与标签偏斜,使标准聚合方法过度拟合主导客户端,损害少数类性能。本文提出基于置信度最大化的无数据、逐类贡献估计与聚合框架(CELM),无需共享原始数据、客户端元信息或外部公开数据集。服务器通过探测客户端更新获取逐类证据分数,构建跨客户端证据矩阵,量化每类能力与覆盖范围。据此计算贡献权重,提升对少数类有强判别性证据的客户端权重。该聚合过程因单纯形约束与动量平滑而稳定,且兼容标准联邦训练流程。在代表性视觉基准上,于控制下的非独立同分布及病理标签分割下评估,结果显示基于CELM的聚合显著提升对不平衡与统计异质性的鲁棒性,性能更优且无需额外数据交换。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning of computer vision models, where privacy and regulatory constraints prevent centralizing data across devices or organizations. However, practical FL deployments often exhibit severe class imbalance and label skew, causing standard aggregation protocols to overfit dominant clients and degrade minority-class performance. We propose a data-free, class-wise contribution estimation and aggregation framework based on logit maximization (CELM) that does not require sharing raw data, client metadata, or auxiliary public datasets. The FL server probes client updates to obtain class-wise evidence scores and assembles a cross-client evidence matrix, which quantifies both per-class competence and class coverage. Using this matrix, we compute contribution weights that upweight clients providing strong, discriminative evidence for underrepresented classes. The resulting aggregation is stable due to simplex constraints and momentum smoothing, and it remains compatible with standard FL training pipelines. We evaluate the approach on representative vision benchmarks under controlled non-IID and pathological label splits, demonstrating that CELM-based aggregation improves robustness to imbalance and statistical heterogeneity, while yielding better performance without requiring any additional data exchange.

联邦学习无数据训练类别不平衡贡献估计

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