Clients Behavior Monitoring in Federated Learning via Eccentricity Analysis
2024 (English)In: IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems / [ed] Iglesias Martinez J.A., Baruah R.D., Kangin D., De Campos Souza P.V., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The success of Federated Learning (FL) hinges upon the active participation and contributions of edge devices as they collaboratively train a global model while preserving data privacy. Understanding the behavior of individual clients within the FL framework is essential for enhancing model performance, ensuring system reliability, and protecting data privacy. However, analyzing client behavior poses a significant challenge due to the decentralized nature of FL, the variety of participating devices, and the complex interplay between client models throughout the training process. This research proposes a novel approach based on eccentricity analysis to address the challenges associated with understanding the different clients' behavior in the federation. We study how the eccentricity analysis can be applied to monitor the clients' behaviors through the training process by assessing the eccentricity metrics of clients' local models and clients' data representation in the global model. The Kendall ranking method is used for evaluating the correlations between the defined eccentricity metrics and the clients' benefit from the federation and influence on the federation, respectively. Our initial experiments on a publicly available data set demonstrate that the defined eccentricity measures can provide valuable information for monitoring the clients' behavior and eventually identify clients with deviating behavioral patterns. © 2024 IEEE.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024.
Series
IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems2, ISSN 23304863
Keywords [en]
Client Behavior Monitoring, Eccentricity Analysis, Federated Learning, Neural Networks, Learning systems, Behaviour monitoring, Client behaviour, Eccentricity analyse, Global models, Learning frameworks, Modeling performance, Neural-networks, Training process, Privacy-preserving techniques
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-26784DOI: 10.1109/EAIS58494.2024.10569103ISI: 001261404700006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85199276933ISBN: 9798350366235 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-26784DiVA, id: diva2:1888098
Conference
IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems, EAIS 2024, Madrid, May 23-24 2024
Part of project
HINTS - Human-Centered Intelligent Realities
Funder
Knowledge Foundation, 202200682024-08-122024-08-122024-08-30Bibliographically approved