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Workshop: Federated Learning: Recent Advances and New Challenges

Federated Frank-Wolfe Algorithm

Ali Dadras · Karthik Prakhya · Alp Yurtsever


Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has gained much attention in recent years for building privacy-preserving collaborative learning systems. However, FL algorithms for constrained machine learning problems are still very limited, particularly when the projection step is costly. To this end, we propose a Federated Frank-Wolfe Algorithm (FedFW). FedFW provably finds an ε-suboptimal solution of the constrained empirical risk-minimization problem after O(ε2) iterations if the objective function is convex. The rate becomes O(ε3) if the objective is non-convex. The method enjoys data privacy, low per-iteration cost and communication of sparse signals. We demonstrate empirical performance of the FedFW algorithm on several machine learning tasks.

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