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FLeet: Online Federated Learning via Staleness Awareness and Performance Prediction

Damaskinos, Georgios  
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Guerraoui, Rachid  
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Kermarrec, Anne-Marie  
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2020
Middleware '20: Proceedings of the 21st International Middleware Conference
Middleware '20: 21st International Middleware Conference

Federated Learning (FL) is very appealing for its privacy benefits: essentially, a global model is trained with updates computed on mobile devices while keeping the data of users local. Standard FL infrastructures are however designed to have no energy or performance impact on mobile devices, and are therefore not suitable for applications that require frequent (online) model updates, such as news recommenders. This paper presents FLeet, the first Online FL system, acting as a middleware between the Android OS and the machine learning application. FLeet combines the privacy of Standard FL with the precision of online learning thanks to two core components: (i) I-Prof, a new lightweight profiler that predicts and controls the impact of learning tasks on mobile devices, and (ii) AdaSGD, a new adaptive learning algorithm that is resilient to delayed updates. Our extensive evaluation shows that Online FL, as implemented by FLeet, can deliver a 2.3× quality boost compared to Standard FL, while only consuming 0.036% of the battery per day. I-Prof can accurately control the impact of learning tasks by improving the prediction accuracy up to 3.6× (computation time) and up to 19× (energy). AdaSGD outperforms alternative FL approaches by 18.4% in terms of convergence speed on heterogeneous data.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3423211.3425685
Author(s)
Damaskinos, Georgios  
Guerraoui, Rachid  
Kermarrec, Anne-Marie  
Nitu, Vlad
Patra, Rhicheek  
Taiani, Francois
Date Issued

2020

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Publisher place

New York

Published in
Middleware '20: Proceedings of the 21st International Middleware Conference
ISBN of the book

978-1-450381-53-6

Start page

163

End page

177

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Middleware '20: 21st International Middleware Conference

Delft, Netherlands (online)

December, 2020

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January 13, 2021
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