How Robust is Federated Learning to Communication Error? A Comparison Study Between Uplink and Downlink Channels

Linping Qu, Shenghui Song, Chi-Ying Tsui, Yuyi Mao
10/25/2023
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Because of its privacy-preserving capability, federated learning (FL) has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. However, when being implemented over wireless networks, it is not clear how much communication error can be tolerated by FL. This paper investigates the robustness of FL to the uplink and downlink communication error. Our theoretical analysis reveals that the robustness depends on two critical parameters, namely the number of clients and the numerical range of model parameters. It is also shown that the uplink communication in FL can tolerate a higher bit error rate (BER) than downlink communication, and this difference is quantified by a proposed formula. The findings and theoretical analyses are further validated by extensive experiments.

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@article{qu2023robust,
  title  = {How Robust is Federated Learning to Communication Error? A Comparison Study Between Uplink and Downlink Channels},
  author = {Linping Qu and Shenghui Song and Chi-Ying Tsui and Yuyi Mao},
  year   = {2023},
  eprint = {2310.16652},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16652v2}
}

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