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Assessing the Impacts of Imperfect Datasets on Client Selections in Federated Learning

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 29 references
Computer Science

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This study experimentally measures the impact of non-IID data, noisy data, and fairness in client selection on model accuracy and convergence, and proposes a privacy-preserving scoring method to assess each client's contribution in FL.

Abstract

Federated learning (FL) is a popular distributed learning framework where multiple clients perform local training and a server aggregates the locally updated models. FL enables decentralized training while preserving the privacy of clients'datasets. However, non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) or noisy datasets can lead to low model accuracy or high convergence latency. Precluding these clients through client selection may mitigate the problem, but heavily biased client selections may also degrade the learning performance. In this study, we first experimentally measure the impact of non-IID data (including skews in data quantity and label distribution), noisy data, and fairness in client selection on model accuracy and convergence. We then propose a privacy-preserving scoring method to assess each client's contribution in FL, with experiments conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed assessment.

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