Abstract

<italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Federated learning (FL)</i> is a popular framework for training an AI model using distributed mobile data in a wireless network. It features data parallelism by distributing the learning task to multiple edge devices while attempting to preserve their local-data privacy. One main challenge confronting practical FL is that resource constrained devices struggle with the computation intensive task of updating of a deep-neural network model. To tackle the challenge, in this letter, <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">a federated dropout</i> (FedDrop) scheme is proposed building on the classic dropout scheme for random model pruning. Specifically, in each iteration of the FL algorithm, several subnets are independently generated from the global model at the server using dropout but with heterogeneous dropout rates (i.e., parameter-pruning probabilities), each of which is adapted to the state of an assigned channel. The subnets are downloaded to associated devices for updating. Thereby, FedDrop reduces both the communication overhead and devices’ computation loads compared with the conventional FL while outperforming the latter in the case of overfitting and also the FL scheme with uniform dropout (i.e., identical subnets).

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