An incentive mechanism with bandwidth allocation for federated learning

Abstract

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm that can make full use of crowd sourced mobile resources for training on decentralized data.However, it is challenging to deploy FL over a wireless network because of the limited bandwidth and clients’ selfishness.To address these challenges, an incentive mechanism with bandwidth allocation (IMBA) was proposed.Considering the difference between clients' data quality and computing power, IMBA designs a payment scheme to incentivize high-quality clients to contribute their computing resources, thus improving the training accuracy of the model.By minimizing the weight sum of training time and payment cost, the optimal payment and bandwidth allocation scheme was determined, and the training delay was reduced by optimizing bandwidth allocation.Experiments show that IMBA effectively improves training accuracy, reduces the training delay and helps the server flexibly balance training delay and hiring payment.

Keywords

• federated learning;incentive mechanism;bandwidth allocation;Stackelberg game;training quality