Client Selection for Federated Learning With Non IID Data in Mobile Edge Computing
Federated Learning (FL) has recently attracted considerable attention in internet of things, due to its capability of enabling mobile clients to collaboratively learn a global prediction model without sharing their privacy sensitive data to the server. Despite its great potential, a main challenge of FL is that the training data are usually non Independent, Identically Distributed (non IID) on the clients, which may bring the biases in the model training and cause possible accuracy degradation. To address this issue, this paper aims to propose a novel FL algorithm to alleviate the accuracy degradation caused by non IID data at clients. Firstly, we observe that the clients with different degrees of non IID data present heterogeneous weight divergence with the clients owning IID data. Inspired by this, we utilize weight divergence to recognize the non IID degrees of clients. Then, we propose an efficient FL algorithm, named CSFedAvg, in which the clients with lower degree of non IID data will be chosen to train the models with higher frequency. Finally, we conduct simulations using publicly available datasets to train deep neural networks. Simulation results show that the proposed FL algorithm improves the training performance compared with existing FL protocol.
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