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Evaluating and Incentivizing Diverse Data Contributions in Collaborative Learning
Baihe Huang · Sai Praneeth Karimireddy · Michael Jordan

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For a federated learning model to perform well, it is crucial to have a diverse and representative dataset. However, the data contributors may only be concerned with the performance on a specific subset of the population, which may not reflect the diversity of the wider population. This creates a tension between the principal (the FL platform designer) who cares about global performance and the agents (the data collectors) who care about local performance and will hence only collect locally useful data. In this work, we formulate this tension as a game between the principal and multiple agents, and focus on the linear experiment design problem to formally study their interaction. We show that the statistical criterion used to quantify the diversity of the data, as well as the choice of the federated learning algorithm used, has a significant effect on the resulting equilibrium. We leverage this to design simple optimal federated learning mechanisms that encourage data collectors to contribute data representative of the global population, thereby maximizing global performance.

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Baihe Huang (University of California, Berkeley)
Sai Praneeth Karimireddy (EPFL)
Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley)

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