Blind federated edge learning
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Author(s)
Amiri, Mohammad Mohammadi
Duman, Tolga M
Gunduz, Deniz
Kulkarni, Sanjeev R
Poor, H Vincent
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We study federated edge learning (FEEL), where wireless edge devices, each with its own dataset, learn a global model collaboratively with the help of a wireless access point acting as the parameter server (PS). At each iteration, wireless devices perform local updates using their local data and the most recent global model received from the PS, and send their local updates to the PS over a wireless fading multiple access channel (MAC). The PS then updates the global model according to the signal received over the wireless MAC, and shares it with the devices. Motivated by the additive nature of the wireless MAC, we propose an analog `over-the-air' aggregation scheme, in which the devices transmit their local updates in an uncoded fashion. However, unlike recent literature on over-the-air FEEL, here we assume that the devices do not have channel state information (CSI), while the PS has imperfect CSI. On the other hand, the PS is equipped with multiple antennas to alleviate the destructive effect of the channel, exacerbated due to the lack of perfect CSI. We design a receive beamforming scheme at the PS, and show that it can compensate for the lack of perfect CSI when the PS has a sufficient number of antennas. We also derive the convergence rate of the proposed algorithm highlighting the impact of the lack of perfect CSI, as well as the number of PS antennas. Both the experimental results and the convergence analysis illustrate the performance improvement of the proposed algorithm with the number of PS antennas, where the wireless fading MAC becomes deterministic despite the lack of perfect CSI when the PS has a sufficiently large number of antennas.
Date Issued
2021-08-01
Date Acceptance
2021-03-05
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2021, 20 (8), pp.5129-5143
ISSN
1536-1276
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
5129
End Page
5143
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume
20
Issue
8
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Telecommunications
Engineering
Wireless communication
Antennas
Fading channels
Performance evaluation
Convergence
OFDM
Data models
Federated edge learning
fading multiple access channel
blind transmitters
multi-antenna parameter server
MASSIVE MIMO
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-03-19