Personalized Federated Learning through Global Knowledge Distillation and Local Head Adaptation
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Title:Personalized Federated Learning through Global Knowledge Distillation and Local Head Adaptation
Abstract:Statistical heterogeneity limits federated learning when a single global classifier cannot represent client-specific label distributions. In this work, we propose Personalized Federated Knowledge Distillation with Head Adaptation (pFedKDH), which aggregates only the shared backbone, keeps persistent client-specific heads, and uses a recalibrated global head as a teacher during local training. Across MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, CIFAR10, and CIFAR100 under class-wise Dirichlet partitions, pFedKDH obtains the best accuracy in most settings, with accuracy gaps up to 37.67\% over the weakest baseline and consistently low standard deviation across repetitions. Component-wise diagnostics and convergence results support the role of persistent heads and distillation-guided local optimization under label-skewed data.
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML); Other Statistics (stat.OT) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2609.17284 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2609.17284v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.17284
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