Poster
Handling Spatial-Temporal Data Heterogeneity for Federated Continual Learning via Tail Anchor
Hao Yu · Xin Yang · Le Zhang · Hanlin Gu · Tianrui Li · Lixin Fan · Qiang Yang
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Abstract:
Federated continual learning (FCL) allows each client to continually update its knowledge from task streams, enhancing the applicability of federated learning in real-world scenarios. However, FCL needs to address not only spatial data heterogeneity between clients but also temporal data heterogeneity between tasks. In this paper, empirical experiments demonstrate that such input-level heterogeneity significantly affects the model's internal parameters and outputs, leading to severe spatial-temporal catastrophic forgetting of previous and local knowledge. To this end, we propose Federated Tail Anchor (FedTA) to mix trainable with the frozen output features to adjust their position in the feature space, thereby overcoming parameter-forgetting and output-forgetting. Moreover, three novel components are also included in FedTA: for improving the performance of pre-trained models on downstream tasks; for fusion of heterogeneous local knowledge on the server side; and for finding the best anchor point for each class in the feature space. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FedTA not only outperforms existing FCL methods but also effectively preserves the relative positions of features, remaining unaffected by spatial and temporal changes.
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