联邦学习中用协作生成数据,在保护隐私前提下实现高效模型迁移。
Collaborative Synthetic Data Generation for Knowledge Transfer in Federated Learning

- 利用预训练自编码器构建共享隐空间,客户端单次前向传播编码数据
- 服务器聚合隐层统计量并加差分隐私噪声,生成可训练的合成数据集
- 兼顾隐私、通信效率与异构数据鲁棒性,适合大规模安全联邦学习
单轮联邦学习(OSFL)通过限制训练为单轮来降低通信开销,但保持模型质量在客户端数据分布差异大时极具挑战。现有方法通过构建可迁移的合成数据集或蒸馏数据缓解此问题,但大多缺乏严格的隐私保障。本文提出FedKT-CSD框架,受神经图像压缩启发,利用公开预训练自编码器作为共享隐空间。每个客户端仅需一次前向传播即可编码私有数据,计算类别条件隐层统计量并上传。服务器通过安全聚合整合这些统计量,加入校准的差分隐私噪声后解码生成合成数据集,用于训练全局模型及下游任务。该设计天然满足$(\varepsilon,δ)$-差分隐私,且客户端计算与通信开销极低。尽管在隐私约束下,FedKT-CSD在多种数据集和异构设置下表现优于甚至媲美非私有基线,且支持大规模客户端扩展。代码已开源:https://github.com/an7123/FedKT-CSD
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
One-shot federated learning (OSFL) addresses the communication overhead of federated learning by limiting training to a single round, but doing so without sacrificing model quality is non-trivial, particularly when client data distributions diverge. Recent work has addressed this challenge by aggregating client knowledge on the server through the construction of transferable synthetic datasets or distillates. However, most of these methods lack formal privacy guarantees, leaving a gap in jointly achieving low communication, robustness to heterogeneity, and rigorous privacy. We propose FedKT-CSD (Federated Knowledge Transfer via Collaborative Synthetic Data), a framework inspired by neural image compression that closes this gap by leveraging publicly pretrained autoencoders as a shared latent space. Each client encodes its private data in a single forward pass, computes class-conditional latent statistics, and transmits these to the server. The server aggregates these statistics via secure aggregation, adds calibrated differential privacy noise, and decodes a synthetic dataset for training a global model and further downstream tasks. This design provides formal $(\varepsilon,δ)$-differential privacy by construction, while keeping client-side computation and communication lightweight. Despite operating under privacy constraints, FedKT-CSD is competitive with and even outperforms non-private baselines across diverse datasets and heterogeneity settings, and scales to a large number of clients. Our code is available at: https://github.com/an7123/FedKT-CSD
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