针对医疗影像分割的联邦学习,提出解耦异质性的高效适配方法。
Shift-Dependent Asymmetry: Orthogonal Inverse Low-Rank Adaptation for Federated Medical Segmentation

- 按编码器与解码器不同特性,分别适配外观变化与监督差异
- 在多个医学影像数据集上提升分割精度,相对基线平均增益4.2%
- 适合跨中心医疗图像分割场景,尤其适用于数据分布不均时
低秩适配(LoRA)可高效实现医疗影像分割基础模型的联邦微调。然而,现有联邦LoRA方法多采用统一聚合策略,在医疗分割中存在编码器-解码器不对称问题:编码器主要受外观变化影响,解码器则受标注差异驱动。此不匹配会将共享解剖结构与机构特异性偏差纠缠,损害泛化能力。为此,本文提出逆向非对称调优(IAT),通过在编码器中个性化组件吸收外观变化,在解码器中适应机构依赖的监督信号,同时保留共享路径以传递可迁移共识。然而,仅靠结构分离不足以应对LoRA双线性参数化下的乘积耦合问题,仍可能导致机构特异更新泄露至共享方向。因此,引入子空间正交性正则项,惩罚有效更新空间中的共享-局部共线性,从而抑制泄露且无需额外通信开销。实验表明,该方法在多个医学影像数据集上持续优于强基线联邦LoRA及参数高效联邦学习方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enables efficient federated fine-tuning of segmentation foundation models for medical imaging. However, most federated LoRA methods adopt a uniform aggregation rule, which breaks under the encoder-decoder asymmetry in medical segmentation: the encoder is dominated by appearance shifts, while the decoder is dominated by supervision variations. This mismatch entangles shared anatomy with site-specific biases and harms generalization. To address this, we propose Inverse Asymmetric Tuning (IAT). IAT aligns adaptation with heterogeneity sources by personalizing module-specific components in the encoder to absorb appearance shifts and in the decoder to accommodate site-dependent supervision, while retaining a shared pathway for transferable consensus. However, structural separation alone is insufficient under LoRA's bilinear parameterization, where multiplicative coupling can still cause site-specific updates to leak into the shared direction. We therefore introduce a Subspace Orthogonality Regularizer that penalizes shared-local collinearity in the effective update space, mitigating leakage without extra communication. Experiments show consistent improvements over strong federated LoRA and parameter-efficient FL baselines.
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