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Poster
Coresets for Vertical Federated Learning: Regularized Linear Regression and $K$-Means Clustering
Lingxiao Huang · Zhize Li · Jialin Sun · Haoyu Zhao

Tue Nov 29 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Hall J #734
in Poster Session 2 »
Vertical federated learning (VFL), where data features are stored in multiple parties distributively, is an important area in machine learning. However, the communication complexity for VFL is typically very high. In this paper, we propose a unified framework by constructing \emph{coresets} in a distributed fashion for communication-efficient VFL. We study two important learning tasks in the VFL setting: regularized linear regression and $k$-means clustering, and apply our coreset framework to both problems. We theoretically show that using coresets can drastically alleviate the communication complexity, while nearly maintain the solution quality. Numerical experiments are conducted to corroborate our theoretical findings.
Keywords: linear regression · coreset · Vertical federated learning · k-means clustering
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Author Information

Lingxiao Huang (Huawei TCS Lab)
Zhize Li (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jialin Sun (Fudan University)
Haoyu Zhao (Princeton University)

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