Model-Contrastive Federated Learning

This is the code for paper Model-Contrastive Federated Learning.

Abstract: Federated learning enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a machine learning model without communicating their local data. A key challenge in federated learning is to handle the heterogeneity of local data distribution across parties. Although many studies have been proposed to address this challenge, we find that they fail to achieve high performance in image datasets with deep learning models. In this paper, we propose MOON: model-contrastive federated learning. MOON is a simple and effective federated learning framework. The key idea of MOON is to utilize the similarity between model representations to correct the local training of individual parties, i.e., conducting contrastive learning in model-level. Our extensive experiments show that MOON significantly outperforms the other state-of-the-art federated learning algorithms on various image classification tasks.

Dependencies

• PyTorch >= 1.0.0
• torchvision >= 0.2.1
• scikit-learn >= 0.23.1

Parameters

Parameter	Description
model	The model architecture. Options: simple-cnn, resnet50 .
alg	The training algorithm. Options: moon, fedavg, fedprox, local_training
dataset	Dataset to use. Options: cifar10. cifar100, tinyimagenet
lr	Learning rate.
batch-size	Batch size.
epochs	Number of local epochs.
n_parties	Number of parties.
sample_fraction	the fraction of parties to be sampled in each round.
comm_round	Number of communication rounds.
partition	The partition approach. Options: noniid, iid.
beta	The concentration parameter of the Dirichlet distribution for non-IID partition.
mu	The parameter for MOON and FedProx.
temperature	The temperature parameter for MOON.
out_dim	The output dimension of the projection head.
datadir	The path of the dataset.
logdir	The path to store the logs.
device	Specify the device to run the program.
seed	The initial seed.

Usage

Here is an example to run MOON on CIFAR-10 with a simple CNN:

python main.py --dataset=cifar10 \
    --model=simple-cnn \
    --alg=moon \
    --lr=0.01 \
    --mu=5 \
    --epochs=10 \
    --comm_round=100 \
    --n_parties=10 \
    --partition=noniid \
    --beta=0.5 \
    --logdir='./logs/' \
    --datadir='./data/' \

Tiny-ImageNet

You can download Tiny-ImageNet here. Then, you can follow the instructions to reformat the validation folder.

Hyperparameters

If you use the same setting as our papers, you can simply adopt the hyperparameters reported in our paper. If you try a setting different from our paper, please tune the hyperparameters of MOON. You may tune mu from {0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 5, 10}. If you have sufficient computing resources, you may also tune temperature from {0.1, 0.5, 1.0} and the output dimension of projection head from {64, 128, 256}.

Citation

Please cite our paper if you find this code useful for your research.

@inproceedings{li2021model,
      title={Model-Contrastive Federated Learning}, 
      author={Qinbin Li and Bingsheng He and Dawn Song},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
      year={2021},
}