arXiv AI
Jul 9
An Adaptive Differentially Private Federated Learning Framework
arXiv:2602. 06838v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy.
Privacy-Aligned Personalized Federated Learning with Compact Adaptation and Variable-Length Gaussian Communication
The paper proposes a privacy‑aligned personalized federated learning method that releases a private client context once and limits repeated adaptation to a fixed coefficient space, thereby reducing dimensionality misalignment. A factorized generator creates an adaptive optimization geometry that reshapes noisy updates, and most of the private‑training benefit is preserved by radial evolution. Variable‑length Gaussian quantization is used for coefficient updates, allowing the quantization error to act as the privacy perturbation and cutting protected uplink communication by a factor of 2.67 on CIFAR‑10 at ε=16 while maintaining comparable future‑client accuracy.
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