Title
Decentralized Federated Learning for Electronic Health Records
Abstract
Federated learning opens a number of research opportunities due to its high communication efficiency in distributed training problems within a star network. In this paper, we focus on improving the communication efficiency for fully decentralized federated learning (DFL) over a graph, where the algorithm performs local updates for several iterations and then enables communications among the nodes. In such a way, the communication rounds of exchanging the common interest of parameters can be saved significantly without loss of optimality of the solutions. Multiple numerical simulations based on large, real- world electronic health record databases showcase the superiority of the decentralized federated learning compared with classic methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/CISS48834.2020.1570617414
2020 54th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
decentralized federated learning (DFL),communication efficiency,health record databases,heterogeneous networks,non-convex optimization
Conference
978-1-7281-8831-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Songtao Lu18419.52
Yawen Zhang200.34
Yunlong Wang301.35