An Adaptive Federated Control Strategy for Participant Selection in Multi-Client Collaboration

The federated ecology provides a new paradigm for breaking the isolated data island problem and fully activating the potential of big data and artificial intelligence, especially in multi-client collaboration tasks. Participant selection strategy in multi-client collaboration is the main limitation for increasing the convergence speed and lowing the communication costs. However, in the face of the unbalanced and non-IID data distributions, the performance of federated optimization algorithms will also decrease. To solve the above problems, we propose an adaptive federated control strategy for participant selection in multi-client collaboration based on the Mann-Kendall test, named FedMK. By adaptively selecting weak participants for training rather than random selection, FedMK can speed up model convergence and reduce communication costs. Experiment results show that our method outperforms the baseline method in non-IID scenarios, and the number of communication rounds on CIFAR-10 and synthetic datasets reduced by more than 15% and 10 %,9 respectively.