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Abstract
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising privacy-preserving
distributed machine learning framework recently. It aims at collaboratively
learning a shared global model by performing distributed training locally on
edge devices and aggregating local models into a global one without centralized
raw data sharing in the cloud server. However, due to the large local data
heterogeneities (Non-I.I.D. data) across edge devices, the FL may easily obtain
a global model that can produce more shifted gradients on local datasets,
thereby degrading the model performance or even suffering from the
non-convergence during training. In this paper, we propose a novel FL training
framework, dubbed Fed-FSNet, using a properly designed Fuzzy Synthesizing
Network (FSNet) to mitigate the Non-I.I.D. FL at-the-source. Concretely, we
maintain an edge-agnostic hidden model in the cloud server to estimate a
less-accurate while direction-aware inversion of the global model. The hidden
model can then fuzzily synthesize several mimic I.I.D. data samples (sample
features) conditioned on only the global model, which can be shared by edge
devices to facilitate the FL training towards faster and better convergence.
Moreover, since the synthesizing process involves neither access to the
parameters/updates of local models nor analyzing individual local model
outputs, our framework can still ensure the privacy of FL. Experimental results
on several FL benchmarks demonstrate that our method can significantly mitigate
the Non-I.I.D. issue and obtain better performance against other representative
methods.