arXiv:2607.26788cs.GTcs.LG2026-07

提出博弈论方法解决联邦学习聚类中的稳定与预算可行问题。

Stable and Budget-Feasible Coalition Formation for Clustered Federated Learning: A Hedonic Potential-Game Approach

论文配图:Stable and Budget-Feasible Coalition Formation for Clustered Federated Learning: A Hedonic Potential-Game Approach
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  • 用可转移盈余模型将学习收益与成本分离,构造势博弈确保稳定分区存在。
  • 在CIFAR-10实验中,机制在所有主实例上达到认证的福利最优,优于均分策略。
  • 适用于需要公平分配且预算受限的分布式学习场景,如医疗或金融数据协作。

聚类联邦学习通过将异构参与者组织为训练专属模型的联盟提升性能,但其可持续性取决于参与者对所属联盟的偏好及转移成本的可负担性。本文构建一个可转移盈余模型,区分学习收益、系统成本、参与者成本与货币转移;通过分配规则将联盟盈余转化为赫多尼克偏好,并保证协调者留存盈余非负。对称成对分配下诱导出精确势博弈:纳什稳定划分存在,严格改进过程必收敛,接受目的地同意的改进可达个体稳定划分。当留存冗余为子模时,可在多项式预言机时间内验证指数级预算约束可行性。将福利分解为参与者势与留存冗余,获得加法与乘法形式的稳定性价格界,后者渐近紧致;仅预算可行无法避免福利损失,精确平衡仅在成对可表示类中实现福利最优。全局势最大化等价于加权最大一致相关聚类,近似后稳定化满足由留存冗余与负边质量决定的端到端福利界,可通过显式构造达成。预注册的五种子集CIFAR-10研究显示,该机制在每个主实例上达到认证估计表福利最优,均盈余分享在三个实例上无纳什稳定结果,成对验证增益显著优于梯度对齐的配对符号预测。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Clustered federated learning benefits from organizing heterogeneous participants into coalitions that train coalition-specific models, but such clustering is sustainable only if participants prefer their assigned coalition and the required transfers are affordable. We develop a transferable-surplus model separating learning benefit, system cost, participant cost, and monetary transfers; an allocation rule converts coalition surplus into hedonic preferences, and weak budget feasibility guarantees nonnegative retained coordinator surplus. For symmetric pairwise allocations the induced game is an exact potential game: a Nash-stable partition exists, every strict better-response process converges, and with destination consent accepted better responses reach an individually stable partition. We characterize feasibility of bounded pair incentives and verify the exponentially many budget constraints in polynomial oracle time when retained slack is submodular. Decomposing welfare into participant potential and retained slack yields additive and multiplicative price-of-stability guarantees, the latter asymptotically tight; exact balance gives welfare-optimal stability only on the pairwise-representable class, and budget feasibility alone permits unbounded welfare loss. Global potential maximization equals weighted maximum-agreement correlation clustering, and approximation followed by stabilization satisfies an end-to-end welfare bound governed by retained slack and negative-edge mass, attained by an explicit construction. In a preregistered five-seed CIFAR-10 study the mechanism reaches the certified estimated-table welfare optimum on every primary instance, equal-surplus sharing has no Nash-stable outcome on three, and pairwise validation gain gives far more reliable pair signs than gradient alignment.

联邦学习博弈论聚类优化

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