A Real-time Contribution Measurement Method for Participants in Federated Learning
Authors: Bingjie Yan, Yize Zhou, Boyi Liu, Jun Wang, Yuhan Zhang, Li Liu, Xiaolan Nie, Zhiwei Fan, Zhixuan Liang
Keywords: Federated Learning, Contribution Evaluation, Multi-party Participation
Abstract: Federated learning is a framework for protecting distributed data privacy and has participated in commercial activities. However, there is a lack of a sufficiently reasonable contribution measurement mechanism to distribute the reward for each agent. In the commercial union, if there is no mechanism like this, every agent will get the same reward. This is unfair to agents that provide better data, so such a mechanism is needed. To address this issue, this work proposes a real-time contribution measurement method. Firstly, the method defines the impact of each agent. Furthermore, we comprehensively consider the current round and the previous round to obtain the contribution rate of each agent. To verify effectiveness of the proposed method, the work conducts pseudo-distributed training and an experiment on the Penn Treebank dataset. Comparing the Shapley Value in game theory, the comparative experiment result shows that the proposed method is more sensitive to both data quantity and data quality under the premise of maintaining real-time.