A package for computing the average marginal contribution (Shapley Value) for each client in a Federated Learning environment
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ShapleyValueFL
A pip library for computing the marginal contribution (Shapley Value) for each client in a Federated Learning environment.
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Brief
The Shapley Value is a game theory concept that explores how to equitably distribute rewards and costs among members of a coalition. It is extensively used in incentive mechanisms for Federated Learning to fairly distribute rewards to clients based on their contribution to the system.
Let $v(S)$ where $S\subset N$ is defined as the contribution of the model collaboratively trained by the subset $S$. $N$ is a set of all the participants in the system. The $i-th$ participant’s Shapley Value $\phi(i)$ is defined as
$$\phi(i) = \sum_{S\subset N \backslash {i}} \frac{|S|!(N-|S|-1)!}{|N|!}(v(S\cup {i}) - v(S))$$
The marginal contribution of the $i-th$ participant is defined as $(v(S \cup {i}) - v(S))$ when they join this coalition.
Let's see this equation in action, consider a Federated Learning environment with three clients, so $N = {0, 1, 2}$. We list the contribution of each subset within this coalition. Let's consider the contribution to be measured in terms of model accuracy.
$v(\emptyset) = 0$ $v({0}) = 40$ $v({1}) = 60$ $v({2}) = 80$
$v({0,1}) = 70$ $v({0,2}) = 75$ $v({1,2}) = 85$
$v({0,1,2}) = 90$
Subset | Client #0 | Client #1 | Client #2 |
---|---|---|---|
$0 \leftarrow 1 \leftarrow 2$ | 40 | 30 | 20 |
$0 \leftarrow 2 \leftarrow 1$ | 40 | 15 | 35 |
$1 \leftarrow 0 \leftarrow 2$ | 10 | 60 | 20 |
$1 \leftarrow 2 \leftarrow 0$ | 5 | 60 | 25 |
$2 \leftarrow 0 \leftarrow 1$ | 0 | 10 | 80 |
$2 \leftarrow 1 \leftarrow 0$ | 5 | 5 | 80 |
$Sum$ | 100 | 180 | 260 |
$\phi(i)$ | 16.67 | 30 | 20 |
The arrow signifies the order in which each client joins the coalition. Consider the first iteration $0 \leftarrow 1 \leftarrow 2$, we calculate the marginal contribution of each client using the above equation.
- Client 0's marginal contribution is given as $v({0}) = 40$.
- Client 1's marginal contribution is given as $v({0, 1}) - v({0}) = 30$.
- Client 2's marginal contribution is given as $v({0, 1, 2}) - v({0, 1}) - v({0}) = 20$.
The marginal contribution is calculated for each permutation likewise, and the Shapley Value is derived by averaging all of these marginal contributions.
Usage
from svfl.svfl import calculate_sv
models = {
"client-id-1" : ModelUpdate(),
"client-id-2" : ModelUpdate(),
"client-id-3" : ModelUpdate(),
}
def evaluate_model(model):
# function to compute evaluation metric, ex: accuracy, precision
return metric
def fed_avg(models):
# function to merge the model updates into one model for evaluation, ex: FedAvg, FedProx
return model
# returns a key value pair with the client identifier and it's respective Shapley Value
contribution_measure = calculate_sv(models, evaluate_model, fed_avg)
Future Work
- Built-in support for standard averaging methods like FedAvg, & FedProx.
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