• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.1-13
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• 2023

As federated learning brings a large paradigm to modern artificial intelligence research, efforts are being made to incorporate federated learning into research in various fields. However, researchers who apply federated learning face the problem of choosing a federated learning framework and benchmark tool suitable for their situation and purpose. This study aims to present guidelines for selection of federated learning frameworks and benchmark tools considering the circumstances of researchers who apply federated learning in practice. In particular, there are three main contributions in this study. First, it generalizes the situation of the researcher applying federated learning by combining it with the goal of federated learning and proposes guidelines for selecting a federated learning framework suitable for each situation. Second, it shows the suitability of selection by comparing the characteristics and performance of each federated learning framework to the researcher. Finally, the limitations of the existing federated learning framework and a plan for real-world federated learning operation are proposed.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.233-244
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• 2023

Although artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies have been used in various fields, problems with personal information protection have arisen based on centralized data collection and processing. Federated learning has been proposed to solve this problem. Federated learning is a process in which clients who own data in a distributed data environment learn a model using their own data and collectively create an artificial intelligence model by centrally collecting learning results. Unlike the centralized method, Federated learning has the advantage of not having to send the client's data to the central server. In this paper, we quantitatively present the performance improvement when federated learning is applied using the building change detection learning data. As a result, it has been confirmed that the performance when federated learning was applied was about 29% higher on average than the performance when it was not applied. As a future work, we plan to propose a method that can effectively reduce the number of federated learning rounds to improve the convergence time of federated learning.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.119-130
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• 2022

Crime is a common social problem that affects the quality of life. As the number of crimes increases, it is necessary to build a model to predict the number of crimes that may occur in a given period, identify the characteristics of a person who may commit a particular crime, and identify places where a particular crime may occur. Data privacy is the main challenge that organizations face when building this type of predictive models. Federated learning (FL) is a promising approach that overcomes data security and privacy challenges, as it enables organizations to build a machine learning model based on distributed datasets without sharing raw data or violating data privacy. In this paper, a federated long short- term memory (LSTM) model is proposed and compared with a traditional LSTM model. Proposed model is developed using TensorFlow Federated (TFF) and the Keras API to predict the number of crimes. The proposed model is applied on the Boston crime dataset. The proposed model's parameters are fine tuned to obtain minimum loss and maximum accuracy. The proposed federated LSTM model is compared with the traditional LSTM model and found that the federated LSTM model achieved lower loss, better accuracy, and higher training time than the traditional LSTM model.

• The Journal of Bigdata
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.89-96
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• 2020

Deep learning using an artificial neural network has been recently researched and developed in various fields such as image recognition, big data and data analysis. However, federated learning has emerged to solve issues of data privacy invasion and problems that increase the cost and time required to learn. Federated learning presented learning techniques that would bring the benefits of distributed processing system while solving the problems of existing deep learning, but there were still problems with server-client system and motivations for providing learning data. So, we replaced the role of the server with a blockchain system in federated learning, and conducted research to solve the privacy and security problems that are associated with federated learning. In addition, we have implemented a blockchain-based system that motivates users by paying compensation for data provided by users, and requires less maintenance costs while maintaining the same accuracy as existing learning. In this paper, we present the experimental results to show the validity of the blockchain-based system, and compare the results of the existing federated learning with the blockchain-based federated learning. In addition, as a future study, we ended the thesis by presenting solutions to security problems and applicable business fields.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.80-88
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• 2023

To construct a learning model in the field of artificial intelligence, a dataset should be collected and be delivered to the central server where the learning model is constructed. Federated learning is a machine learning method building a global learning model without transmitting data located in a client side in a collaborative manner. It can be used to protect privacy, and after constructing a local trained model on individual clients, the parameters of the local model are aggregated centrally to update the global model. In this paper, we reuse the existing learning parameter to improve federated learning, describe incremental federated learning. For this work, we do experiments using the federated learning framework named Flower, and evaluate the experiment results with regard to elapsed time and precision when executing optimization algorithms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.742-756
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• 2022

A flood of information has occurred with the rise of the internet and digital devices in the fourth industrial revolution era. Every millisecond, massive amounts of structured and unstructured data are generated; smartphones, wearable devices, sensors, and self-driving cars are just a few examples of devices that currently generate massive amounts of data in our daily. Machine learning has been considered an approach to support and recognize patterns in data in many areas to provide a convenient way to other sectors, including the healthcare sector, government sector, banks, military sector, and more. However, the conventional machine learning model requires the data owner to upload their information to train the model in one central location to perform the model training. This classical model has caused data owners to worry about the risks of transferring private information because traditional machine learning is required to push their data to the cloud to process the model training. Furthermore, the training of machine learning and deep learning models requires massive computing resources. Thus, many researchers have jumped to a new model known as "Federated Learning". Federated learning is emerging to train Artificial Intelligence models over distributed clients, and it provides secure privacy information to the data owner. Hence, this paper implements Federated Averaging with a Deep Neural Network to classify the handwriting image and protect the sensitive data. Moreover, we compare the centralized machine learning model with federated averaging. The result shows the centralized machine learning model outperforms federated learning in terms of accuracy, but this classical model produces another risk, like privacy concern, due to the data being stored in the data center. The MNIST dataset was used in this experiment.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.441-452
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• 2021

Federated learning provides an efficient integrated model for distributed data, allowing the local training of different data. Meanwhile, the goal of multi-task learning is to simultaneously establish models for multiple related tasks, and to obtain the underlying main structure. However, traditional federated multi-task learning models not only have strict requirements for the data distribution, but also demand large amounts of calculation and have slow convergence, which hindered their promotion in many fields. In our work, we apply the rank constraint on weight vectors of the multi-task learning model to adaptively adjust the task's similarity learning, according to the distribution of federal node data. The proposed model has a general framework for solving optimal solutions, which can be used to deal with various data types. Experiments show that our model has achieved the best results in different dataset. Notably, our model can still obtain stable results in datasets with large distribution differences. In addition, compared with traditional federated multi-task learning models, our algorithm is able to converge on a local optimal solution within limited training iterations.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.21-34
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• 2023

Federated Learning is divided into synchronous federated learning and asynchronous federated learning. Asynchronous federated learning has a time advantage over synchronous federated learning, but asynchronous federated learning still has some challenges to obtain better performance. In particular, preventing performance degradation in non-IID training datasets, selecting appropriate clients, and managing stale gradient information are important for improving model performance. In this paper, we deal with K-asynchronous federated learning by using non-IID datasets. In addition, unlike traditional method using static K, we proposed an algorithm that adaptively adjusts K and we can reduce the learning time. Additionally, the we show that model performance is improved by using stale gradient handling method. Finally, we use a method of judging model performance to obtain strong model stability. Experiment results show that overall algorithm can obtain advantages of reducing training time, improving model accuracy, and improving model stability.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.27-40
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• 2022

Medical AI, which has lately made significant advances, is playing a vital role, such as assisting clinicians with diagnosis and decision-making. The field of chest X-rays, in particular, is attracting a lot of attention since it is important for accessibility and identification of chest diseases, as well as the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, despite the vast amount of data, there remains a limit to developing an effective AI model due to a lack of labeled data. A research that used federated learning on chest X-ray data to lessen this difficulty has emerged, although it still has the following limitations. 1) It does not consider the problems that may occur in the Non-IID environment. 2) Even in the federated learning environment, there is still a shortage of labeled data of clients. We propose a method to solve the above problems by using the self-supervised learning model as a global model of federated learning. To that aim, we investigate a self-supervised learning methods suited for federated learning using chest X-ray data and demonstrate the benefits of adopting the self-supervised learning model for federated learning.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.97-110
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• 2022

Federated learning is a learning method capable of performing model learning without transmitting learning data. The IoT or healthcare field is sensitive to information leakage as it deals with users' personal information, so a lot of attention should be paid to system design, but when using federated-learning, data does not move from devices where data is collected. Accordingly, many federated-learning implementations have been developed, but detailed research on system design for the development and operation of systems using federated learning is insufficient. This study shows that measures for the life cycle, code version management, model serving, and device monitoring of federated learning are needed to be applied to actual projects and distributed to IoT devices, and we propose a design for a development environment that complements these points. The system proposed in this paper considered uninterrupted model-serving and includes source code and model version management, device state monitoring, and server-client learning schedule management.