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D-Cliques: Compensating for Data Heterogeneity with Topology in Decentralized Federated Learning

Bellet, Aurélien
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Kermarrec, Anne-Marie  
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Lavoie, Erick  
September 22, 2022
2022 41St International Symposium On Reliable Distributed Systems (Srds 2022)
41st International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2022)

The convergence speed of machine learning models trained with Federated Learning is significantly affected by non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data partitions, even more so in a fully decentralized setting without a central server. In this paper, we show that the impact of local class bias, an important type of data non-IIDness, can be significantly reduced by carefully designing the underlying communication topology. We present D-Cliques, a novel topology that reduces gradient bias by grouping nodes in interconnected cliques such that the local joint distribution in a clique is representative of the global class distribution. We also show how to adapt the updates of decentralized SGD to obtain unbiased gradients and implement an effective momentum with D-Cliques. Our empirical evaluation on MNIST and CIFAR10 demonstrates that our approach provides similar convergence speed as a fully-connected topology with a significant reduction in the number of edges and messages. In a 1000-node topology, D-Cliques requires 98% less edges and 96% less total messages, with further possible gains using a small-world topology across cliques.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/SRDS55811.2022.00011
Author(s)
Bellet, Aurélien
Kermarrec, Anne-Marie  
Lavoie, Erick  
Date Issued

2022-09-22

Published in
2022 41St International Symposium On Reliable Distributed Systems (Srds 2022)
ISBN of the book

978-1-665497-53-4

Total of pages

11

Series title/Series vol.

Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Proceedings

Subjects

Decentralized Learning

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Federated Learning

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Topology

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Heterogeneous Data

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Stochastic Gradient Descent

URL
https://srds-conference.org/
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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
41st International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2022)

Vienna, Austria

September 19-22, 2022

Available on Infoscience
June 29, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/188792
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