Differential Privacy Meets Federated Learning under Communication Constraints

@article{Mohammadi2021DifferentialPM,
title={Differential Privacy Meets Federated Learning under Communication Constraints},
author={Nima Mohammadi and Jianan Bai and Qiang Fan and Yifei Song and Yang Cindy Yi and Lingjia Liu},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2101.12240}
}
• Published 28 January 2021
• Computer Science
• ArXiv
The performance of federated learning systems is bottlenecked by communication costs and training variance. The communication overhead problem is usually addressed by three communication-reduction techniques, namely, model compression, partial device participation, and periodic aggregation, at the cost of increased training variance. Different from traditional distributed learning systems, federated learning suffers from data heterogeneity (since the devices sample their data from possibly…
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