FedHP: Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Privacy-preserving

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning environment, which ensures that clients complete collaborative training without sharing private data, only by exchanging parameters. However, the data does not satisfy the same distribution and the computing resources of clients are different, which brings challenges to the related research. To better solve the above heterogeneous problems, we designed a novel federated learning method. The local model consists of the pre-trained model as the backbone and fully connected layers as the head. The backbone can extract features for the head, and the embedding vector of classes is shared between clients to optimize the head so that the local model can perform better. By sharing the embedding vector of classes, instead of parameters based on gradient space, clients can better adapt to private data, and it is more efficient in the communication between the server and clients. To better protect privacy, we proposed a privacy-preserving hybrid method to add noise to the embedding vector of classes, which has less impact on the local model performance under the premise of satisfying differential privacy. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation with other federated learning methods on the self-built vehicle dataset under non-independent identically distributed(Non-IID)