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Provably Personalized and Robust Federated Learning

14 Jun 2023arXiv:2306.08393archive 2025-07-28

Mariel Werner, Lie He, Michael Jordan, Martin Jaggi, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy

Identifying clients with similar objectives and learning a model-per-cluster is an intuitive and interpretable approach to personalization in federated learning. However, doing so with provable and optimal guarantees has remained an open challenge. We formalize this problem as a stochastic optimization problem, achieving optimal convergence rates for a large class of loss functions. We propose simple iterative algorithms which identify clusters of similar clients and train a personalized model-per-cluster, using local client gradients and flexible constraints on the clusters. The convergence rates of our algorithms asymptotically match those obtained if we knew the true underlying clustering of the clients and are provably robust in the Byzantine setting where some fraction of the clients are malicious.

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