WE1.R2.3

Computation Selection: Scheduling Users to Enable Over-the-Air Federated Learning

Bobak Nazer, Boston University, United States; Krishna Narayanan, Texas A&M University, United States

Session:
Federated Learning

Track:
15: Distributed and Federated Learning

Location:
Ypsilon I-II-III

Presentation Time:
Wed, 10 Jul, 10:30 - 10:50

Session Chair:
Lav Varshney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
Recent work has argued that federated learning over wireless channels can be accelerated by a factor of $K$ (the numbers of users), by using computation over multiple-access channels to directly average the gradients. This implicitly presumes that timely channel state information is available at the transmitters, which may not be feasible for large $K$. This paper presents a simple scheduling algorithm that only uses channel state information at the receiver to activate a subset of the users for computation, and accelerates averaging by a factor of $K^{2/3}$.
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