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Fine-Tuning Personalization in Federated Learning to Mitigate Adversarial Clients

Allouah, Youssef  
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El Mrini, Abdellah  
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Gupta, Nirupam  
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2024
38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)

Federated learning (FL) is an appealing paradigm that allows a group of machines (a.k.a. clients) to learn collectively while keeping their data local. However, due to the heterogeneity between the clients' data distributions, the model obtained through the use of FL algorithms may perform poorly on some client's data. Personalization addresses this issue by enabling each client to have a different model tailored to their own data while simultaneously benefiting from the other clients' data. We consider an FL setting where some clients can be adversarial, and we derive conditions under which full collaboration fails. Specifically, we analyze the generalization performance of an interpolated personalized FL framework in the presence of adversarial clients, and we precisely characterize situations when full collaboration performs strictly worse than fine-tuned personalization. Our analysis determines how much we should scale down the level of collaboration, according to data heterogeneity and the tolerable fraction of adversarial clients. We support our findings with empirical results on mean estimation and binary classification problems, considering synthetic and benchmark image classification datasets.

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conference paper
Author(s)
Allouah, Youssef  

EPFL

El Mrini, Abdellah  

EPFL

Gupta, Nirupam  
Guerraoui, Rachid  

EPFL

Pinot, Rafaël  
Date Issued

2024

Publisher

Neural information processing systems foundation

Series title/Series vol.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems; 37

ISSN (of the series)

1049-5258

URL

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https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/b6d0df730c5976ad918bbf4fb30afe7d-Abstract-Conference.html
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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)

NeurIPS 2024

Vancouver, Canada

2024-12-10 - 2024-12-15

FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Swiss National Science Foundation

TruBrain(218778)

218778

https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/218778

Swiss National Science Foundation

Controling The Spread of Epidemics: A Computing Perspective

200477

https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/200477
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March 13, 2025
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