Federated Learning With Nesterov Accelerated Gradient

doi:10.1109/TPDS.2022.3206480

Federated Learning With Nesterov Accelerated Gradient

2022-12-01

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DOI：10.1109/TPDS.2022.3206480

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Federated learning (FL) is a fast-developing technique that allows multiple workers to train a global model based on a distributed dataset. Conventional FL (FedAvg) employs gradient descent algorithm, which may not be efficient enough. Momentum is able to improve the situation by adding an additional momentum step to accelerate the convergence and has demonstrated its benefits in both centralized and FL environments. It is well-known that Nesterov Accelerated Gradient (NAG) is a more advantageous form of momentum, but it is not clear how to quantify the benefits of NAG in FL so far. This motives us to propose FedNAG, which employs NAG in each worker as well as NAG momentum and model aggregation in the aggregator. We provide a detailed convergence analysis of FedNAG and compare it with FedAvg. Extensive experiments based on real-world datasets and trace-driven simulation are conducted, demonstrating that FedNAG increases the learning accuracy by 3-24% and decreases the total training time by 11-70% compared with the benchmarks under a wide range of settings.

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federated learning

nesterov accelerated gradient

Federated Learning With Nesterov Accelerated Gradient

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