Federated learning(FL)is a distributed machine learning paradigm for edge cloud computing.FL can facilitate data-driven decision-making in tactical scenarios,effectively addressing both data volume and infrastructure ...Federated learning(FL)is a distributed machine learning paradigm for edge cloud computing.FL can facilitate data-driven decision-making in tactical scenarios,effectively addressing both data volume and infrastructure challenges in edge environments.However,the diversity of clients in edge cloud computing presents significant challenges for FL.Personalized federated learning(pFL)received considerable attention in recent years.One example of pFL involves exploiting the global and local information in the local model.Current pFL algorithms experience limitations such as slow convergence speed,catastrophic forgetting,and poor performance in complex tasks,which still have significant shortcomings compared to the centralized learning.To achieve high pFL performance,we propose FedCLCC:Federated Contrastive Learning and Conditional Computing.The core of FedCLCC is the use of contrastive learning and conditional computing.Contrastive learning determines the feature representation similarity to adjust the local model.Conditional computing separates the global and local information and feeds it to their corresponding heads for global and local handling.Our comprehensive experiments demonstrate that FedCLCC outperforms other state-of-the-art FL algorithms.展开更多
Heterogeneous federated learning(HtFL)has gained significant attention due to its ability to accommodate diverse models and data from distributed combat units.The prototype-based HtFL methods were proposed to reduce t...Heterogeneous federated learning(HtFL)has gained significant attention due to its ability to accommodate diverse models and data from distributed combat units.The prototype-based HtFL methods were proposed to reduce the high communication cost of transmitting model parameters.These methods allow for the sharing of only class representatives between heterogeneous clients while maintaining privacy.However,existing prototype learning approaches fail to take the data distribution of clients into consideration,which results in suboptimal global prototype learning and insufficient client model personalization capabilities.To address these issues,we propose a fair trainable prototype federated learning(FedFTP)algorithm,which employs a fair sampling training prototype(FSTP)mechanism and a hyperbolic space constraints(HSC)mechanism to enhance the fairness and effectiveness of prototype learning on the server in heterogeneous environments.Furthermore,a local prototype stable update(LPSU)mechanism is proposed as a means of maintaining personalization while promoting global consistency,based on contrastive learning.Comprehensive experimental results demonstrate that FedFTP achieves state-of-the-art performance in HtFL scenarios.展开更多
The attention mechanism can extract salient features in images,which has been proved to be effective in improving the performance of person re-identification(Re-ID).However,most of the existing attention modules have ...The attention mechanism can extract salient features in images,which has been proved to be effective in improving the performance of person re-identification(Re-ID).However,most of the existing attention modules have the following two shortcomings:On the one hand,they mostly use global average pooling to generate context descriptors,without highlighting the guiding role of salient information on descriptor generation,resulting in insufficient ability of the final generated attention mask representation;On the other hand,the design of most attention modules is complicated,which greatly increases the computational cost of the model.To solve these problems,this paper proposes an attention module called self-supervised recalibration(SR)block,which introduces both global and local information through adaptive weighted fusion to generate a more refined attention mask.In particular,a special"Squeeze-Excitation"(SE)unit is designed in the SR block to further process the generated intermediate masks,both for nonlinearizations of the features and for constraint of the resulting computation by controlling the number of channels.Furthermore,we combine the most commonly used Res Net-50 to construct the instantiation model of the SR block,and verify its effectiveness on multiple Re-ID datasets,especially the mean Average Precision(m AP)on the Occluded-Duke dataset exceeds the state-of-the-art(SOTA)algorithm by 4.49%.展开更多
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region(Grant No.2022D01B 187)。
文摘Federated learning(FL)is a distributed machine learning paradigm for edge cloud computing.FL can facilitate data-driven decision-making in tactical scenarios,effectively addressing both data volume and infrastructure challenges in edge environments.However,the diversity of clients in edge cloud computing presents significant challenges for FL.Personalized federated learning(pFL)received considerable attention in recent years.One example of pFL involves exploiting the global and local information in the local model.Current pFL algorithms experience limitations such as slow convergence speed,catastrophic forgetting,and poor performance in complex tasks,which still have significant shortcomings compared to the centralized learning.To achieve high pFL performance,we propose FedCLCC:Federated Contrastive Learning and Conditional Computing.The core of FedCLCC is the use of contrastive learning and conditional computing.Contrastive learning determines the feature representation similarity to adjust the local model.Conditional computing separates the global and local information and feeds it to their corresponding heads for global and local handling.Our comprehensive experiments demonstrate that FedCLCC outperforms other state-of-the-art FL algorithms.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region(No.2022D01B187).
文摘Heterogeneous federated learning(HtFL)has gained significant attention due to its ability to accommodate diverse models and data from distributed combat units.The prototype-based HtFL methods were proposed to reduce the high communication cost of transmitting model parameters.These methods allow for the sharing of only class representatives between heterogeneous clients while maintaining privacy.However,existing prototype learning approaches fail to take the data distribution of clients into consideration,which results in suboptimal global prototype learning and insufficient client model personalization capabilities.To address these issues,we propose a fair trainable prototype federated learning(FedFTP)algorithm,which employs a fair sampling training prototype(FSTP)mechanism and a hyperbolic space constraints(HSC)mechanism to enhance the fairness and effectiveness of prototype learning on the server in heterogeneous environments.Furthermore,a local prototype stable update(LPSU)mechanism is proposed as a means of maintaining personalization while promoting global consistency,based on contrastive learning.Comprehensive experimental results demonstrate that FedFTP achieves state-of-the-art performance in HtFL scenarios.
基金supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region(Grant No.2022D01B186 and No.2022D01B05)。
文摘The attention mechanism can extract salient features in images,which has been proved to be effective in improving the performance of person re-identification(Re-ID).However,most of the existing attention modules have the following two shortcomings:On the one hand,they mostly use global average pooling to generate context descriptors,without highlighting the guiding role of salient information on descriptor generation,resulting in insufficient ability of the final generated attention mask representation;On the other hand,the design of most attention modules is complicated,which greatly increases the computational cost of the model.To solve these problems,this paper proposes an attention module called self-supervised recalibration(SR)block,which introduces both global and local information through adaptive weighted fusion to generate a more refined attention mask.In particular,a special"Squeeze-Excitation"(SE)unit is designed in the SR block to further process the generated intermediate masks,both for nonlinearizations of the features and for constraint of the resulting computation by controlling the number of channels.Furthermore,we combine the most commonly used Res Net-50 to construct the instantiation model of the SR block,and verify its effectiveness on multiple Re-ID datasets,especially the mean Average Precision(m AP)on the Occluded-Duke dataset exceeds the state-of-the-art(SOTA)algorithm by 4.49%.
