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Federated Multi-Task Learning

NeurIPS 2017 · Federated learning and privacy › Communication-efficient FL · approach: Communication-efficient heterogeneous FL · 113 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use multi-task learning instead of a global modelSVM · Human Activityprediction error: 2.23 (0.30) -> 0.46 (0.11)Helped
Use multi-task learning instead of a local modelSVM · Human Activityprediction error: 1.34 (0.21) -> 0.46 (0.11)Helped
Use multi-task learning instead of a global modelSVM · Google Glassprediction error: 5.34 (0.26) -> 2.02 (0.15)Helped
Use multi-task learning instead of a local modelSVM · Google Glassprediction error: 4.92 (0.26) -> 2.02 (0.15)Helped
Use multi-task learning instead of a global modelSVM · Vehicle Sensorprediction error: 13.4 (0.26) -> 6.59 (0.21)Helped
Use multi-task learning instead of a local modelSVM · Vehicle Sensorprediction error: 7.81 (0.13) -> 6.59 (0.21)Helped
Allow per-node approximation levels to vary rather than using a fixed shared approximation (ablation)MOCHA · Statistical heterogeneity simulationsperformanceHelped
Use MOCHA's per-node approximation flexibility instead of fixed-parameter CoCoADistributed multi-task learning · Statistical heterogeneity simulationsperformanceHelped
Allow devices to periodically drop updates (ablation)MOCHA · Dropped-node simulationsperformanceNo clear effect
Have a node never send updates (ablation)MOCHA · Dropped-node simulationsconvergenceHurt

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