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Open-Vocabulary Federated Learning with Multimodal Prototyping for Unseen Classes

Q: How can the proposed Fed-MP framework be extended to other modalities beyond images, such as text or audio?

In order to extend the Fed-MP framework to other modalities beyond images, such as text or audio, several modifications and adaptations would be necessary. For text modalities, the text prompts used in the CLIP model can be replaced with text embeddings or representations. The adaptive aggregation mechanism can be adjusted to consider the semantic similarity between text representations from different clients and the new user's queries. The multimodal prototyping can be enhanced to incorporate text prototypes along with visual prototypes for making predictions on text-based queries. When it comes to audio modalities, the framework would need to incorporate audio encoders and adaptors in a similar manner to the visual encoders used for images. The adaptive aggregation process would then consider the similarity between audio representations from different clients and the new user's queries. Multimodal prototyping would involve creating audio prototypes and integrating them with visual and text prototypes for comprehensive predictions. Overall, extending the Fed-MP framework to other modalities would involve customizing the model architecture, aggregation mechanisms, and prototyping strategies to suit the specific characteristics and requirements of the new modalities.

Q: How can the potential ethical concerns and biases that may arise from using pre-trained vision-language models in the open-vocabulary federated learning setting be mitigated?

The use of pre-trained vision-language models in the open-vocabulary federated learning setting can raise ethical concerns and biases, especially related to the inherent biases present in the pre-training data. To mitigate these issues, several strategies can be implemented: Bias Detection and Mitigation: Conduct thorough bias assessments on the pre-trained models to identify and mitigate any biases present in the model. This can involve analyzing the training data, model outputs, and decision-making processes for potential biases. Fairness and Transparency: Implement fairness-aware training techniques to ensure that the model's predictions are fair and unbiased across different demographic groups. Transparency in the model's decision-making process can also help in identifying and addressing biases. Diverse Training Data: Ensure that the pre-training data used for the vision-language models is diverse and representative of the population to reduce biases. Incorporating data from various sources and demographics can help in creating a more inclusive model. Regular Auditing: Regularly audit the model's performance and outputs to detect and rectify any biases that may arise during the federated learning process. Continuous monitoring and auditing can help in maintaining fairness and ethical standards. Ethical Guidelines: Establish clear ethical guidelines and standards for the use of vision-language models in federated learning. Ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the ethical considerations and adhere to the guidelines throughout the model's lifecycle. By implementing these strategies, the potential ethical concerns and biases associated with using pre-trained vision-language models in open-vocabulary federated learning can be effectively mitigated.

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This work presents Fed-MP, a novel open-vocabulary federated learning framework that leverages pre-trained vision-language models to enable accurate predictions for queries involving unseen classes.

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The content discusses the challenge of open-vocabulary in federated learning (FL) applications, where new users may send queries involving data from unseen classes that were not present in the training data of the FL system.

To address this challenge, the authors propose Fed-MP, a novel FL framework that adapts pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP for open-vocabulary settings. Fed-MP consists of two key components:

Adaptive Model Aggregation: Fed-MP adaptively aggregates the local model weights from clients based on the semantic similarity between the new user's queries and the perturbed prompt representations of the clients. This allows the global model to be tailored to the new user's interests.
Multimodal Prototyping: Fed-MP develops both textual and visual prototypes to make predictions for open-vocabulary queries. The textual prototypes are the original encoded prompts, while the visual prototypes are dynamically updated based on the pseudo-labeled test samples.

The authors evaluate Fed-MP on 6 image classification datasets and show that it outperforms state-of-the-art FL baselines in open-vocabulary generalization. Fed-MP is also shown to be robust to the number of training samples per class and scalable to a large number of clients. Additionally, the authors provide an efficiency analysis demonstrating Fed-MP's light-weight and feasible design for real-world FL applications.

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The training data is non-i.i.d. and heterogeneous across clients, with each client only having data from a disjoint set of classes.
The test data contains samples from unseen classes that are not present in the training data.
The number of training samples per class is varied from 2 to 16 to study the robustness of the methods.
The number of clients is varied from 5 to 30 to study the scalability of the methods.

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"To the best of our knowledge, Fed-MP is the first VLM-based FL framework that explicitly addresses the open-vocabulary challenge in FL applications."
"Technically, to build Fed-MP, we present a novel adaptive aggregation protocol and a novel multimodal prototyping mechanism."
"Extensive experimental results on 6 image classification datasets suggest that Fed-MP can effectively improve model performance on test data from unseen categories, outperforming the state-of-the-art baselines."

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Open-Vocabulary Federated Learning with Multimodal Prototyping

by Huimin Zeng,... om arxiv.org 04-02-2024

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.01232.pdf

Open-Vocabulary Federated Learning with Multimodal Prototyping

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How can the proposed Fed-MP framework be extended to other modalities beyond images, such as text or audio?

In order to extend the Fed-MP framework to other modalities beyond images, such as text or audio, several modifications and adaptations would be necessary.
For text modalities, the text prompts used in the CLIP model can be replaced with text embeddings or representations. The adaptive aggregation mechanism can be adjusted to consider the semantic similarity between text representations from different clients and the new user's queries. The multimodal prototyping can be enhanced to incorporate text prototypes along with visual prototypes for making predictions on text-based queries.
When it comes to audio modalities, the framework would need to incorporate audio encoders and adaptors in a similar manner to the visual encoders used for images. The adaptive aggregation process would then consider the similarity between audio representations from different clients and the new user's queries. Multimodal prototyping would involve creating audio prototypes and integrating them with visual and text prototypes for comprehensive predictions.
Overall, extending the Fed-MP framework to other modalities would involve customizing the model architecture, aggregation mechanisms, and prototyping strategies to suit the specific characteristics and requirements of the new modalities.

How can the potential ethical concerns and biases that may arise from using pre-trained vision-language models in the open-vocabulary federated learning setting be mitigated?

The use of pre-trained vision-language models in the open-vocabulary federated learning setting can raise ethical concerns and biases, especially related to the inherent biases present in the pre-training data. To mitigate these issues, several strategies can be implemented:

Bias Detection and Mitigation: Conduct thorough bias assessments on the pre-trained models to identify and mitigate any biases present in the model. This can involve analyzing the training data, model outputs, and decision-making processes for potential biases.

Fairness and Transparency: Implement fairness-aware training techniques to ensure that the model's predictions are fair and unbiased across different demographic groups. Transparency in the model's decision-making process can also help in identifying and addressing biases.

Diverse Training Data: Ensure that the pre-training data used for the vision-language models is diverse and representative of the population to reduce biases. Incorporating data from various sources and demographics can help in creating a more inclusive model.

Regular Auditing: Regularly audit the model's performance and outputs to detect and rectify any biases that may arise during the federated learning process. Continuous monitoring and auditing can help in maintaining fairness and ethical standards.

Ethical Guidelines: Establish clear ethical guidelines and standards for the use of vision-language models in federated learning. Ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the ethical considerations and adhere to the guidelines throughout the model's lifecycle.

By implementing these strategies, the potential ethical concerns and biases associated with using pre-trained vision-language models in open-vocabulary federated learning can be effectively mitigated.

What are the theoretical guarantees or convergence properties of the adaptive aggregation and multimodal prototyping mechanisms in Fed-MP, and how can they be further improved?

The adaptive aggregation mechanism in Fed-MP aims to aggregate model weights based on the semantic similarity between clients and new user queries. The convergence properties of this mechanism can be analyzed using techniques from optimization theory and federated learning. Convergence guarantees can be established by ensuring that the aggregation process converges to a global optimum that minimizes the loss function across all clients.
Similarly, the multimodal prototyping mechanism in Fed-MP can be analyzed for its convergence properties in making predictions based on visual and text prototypes. The convergence of the multimodal prototyping process can be studied in terms of its ability to accurately predict unseen classes and generalize well to new data.
To further improve the theoretical guarantees and convergence properties of these mechanisms in Fed-MP, the following steps can be taken:

Theoretical Analysis: Conduct a rigorous theoretical analysis of the adaptive aggregation and multimodal prototyping mechanisms to establish convergence properties, convergence rates, and optimization guarantees.

Regularization Techniques: Incorporate regularization techniques to prevent overfitting and improve the generalization capabilities of the model. Regularization can help in stabilizing the convergence properties and ensuring robust performance.

Empirical Validation: Validate the theoretical guarantees through extensive empirical evaluations on diverse datasets and scenarios. Real-world experiments can provide insights into the practical convergence properties of the mechanisms.

Fine-tuning Strategies: Explore different fine-tuning strategies for the adaptive aggregation and multimodal prototyping mechanisms to enhance convergence properties and optimize model performance.

By combining theoretical analysis, empirical validation, regularization techniques, and fine-tuning strategies, the adaptive aggregation and multimodal prototyping mechanisms in Fed-MP can be further improved in terms of their convergence properties and overall performance.