Sensors, Vol. 24, Pages 2579: Adaptive Dataset Management Scheme for Lightweight Federated Learning in Mobile Edge Computing

Sensors, Vol. 24, Pages 2579: Adaptive Dataset Management Scheme for Lightweight Federated Learning in Mobile Edge Computing Sensors doi: 10.3390/s24082579 Authors: Jingyeom Kim Juneseok Bang Joohyung Lee Federated learning (FL) in mobile edge computing has emerged as a promising machine-learning paradigm in the Internet of Things, enabling distributed training without exposing private data. It allows multiple mobile devices (MDs) to collaboratively create a global model. FL not only addresses the issue of private data exposure but also alleviates the burden on a centralized server, which is common in conventional centralized learning. However, a critical issue in FL is the imposed computing for local training on multiple MDs, which often have limited computing capabilities. This limitation poses a challenge for MDs to actively contribute to the training process. To tackle this problem, this paper proposes an adaptive dataset management (ADM) scheme, aiming to reduce the burden of local training on MDs. Through an empirical study on the influence of dataset size on accuracy improvement over communication rounds, we confirm that the amount of dataset has a reduced impact on accuracy gain. Based on this finding, we introduce a discount factor that represents the reduced impact of the size of the dataset on the accuracy gain over communication rounds. To address the ADM problem, which involves determining how much the dataset should be reduced over classes while cons...
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