Exploration across small silos: federated few-shot learning on network edge
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Journal Article
Abstract
Federated Learning (FL) has been drawing significant attention from both academia and industry working on distributed machine learning. In practice, learning over mutually isolated datasets residing at the network edge, also known as silos, FL clients can suffer from a lack of samples, due to many reasons (e.g., expensive annotation), and this has potentially significant negative impact on FL performance. Few-Shot Learning (FSL) has been considered as a promising solution, but unfortunately cannot be directly applied to practical Cross-Silo Federated Learning (CSFL) systems. In this article, as far as we know, we conduct the first systematic discussion of the specific challenges of FSL in CSFL systems. We extract essential design issues found in Federated Few-Shot Learning (FFSL), and develop a new FFSL method based on Model-Agnostic Meta Learning (MAML). Through experiments using real-world federated datasets, we comprehensively demonstrate our method's advantages over existing FL and FSL methods in different practical CSFL scenarios where hitherto FL and FSL methods failed. We also highlight some promising future research directions.
Date Issued
2021-11-13
Date Acceptance
2021-09-27
Citation
IEEE Network: the magazine of global information exchange, 2021, 36 (1)
ISSN
0890-8044
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Network: the magazine of global information exchange
Volume
36
Issue
1
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Sponsor
Lloyd¿s Register Foundation
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9599589
Grant Number
ATIPO000005051
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Computer Science, Information Systems
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Telecommunications
Computer Science
Engineering
Task analysis
Computational modeling
Training
Servers
Computer architecture
Privacy
Frequency modulation
Networking & Telecommunications
0805 Distributed Computing
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Publication Status
Published online
Date Publish Online
2021-11-13