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pFedES: Model Heterogeneous Personalized Federated Learning with Feature Extractor Sharing
As a privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning paradigm, federated
learning (FL) has attracted significant interest from academia and the industry
alike. To allow each data owner (a.k.a., FL clients) to train a heterogeneous
and personalized local model based on its local data distribution, system
resources and requirements on model structure, the field of model-heterogeneous
personalized federated learning (MHPFL) has emerged. Existing MHPFL approaches
either rely on the availability of a public dataset with special
characteristics to facilitate knowledge transfer, incur high computation and
communication costs, or face potential model leakage risks. To address these
limitations, we propose a model-heterogeneous personalized Federated learning
approach based on feature Extractor Sharing (pFedES). It incorporates a small
homogeneous feature extractor into each client's heterogeneous local model.
Clients train them via the proposed iterative learning method to enable the
exchange of global generalized knowledge and local personalized knowledge. The
small local homogeneous extractors produced after local training are uploaded
to the FL server and for aggregation to facilitate easy knowledge sharing among
clients. We theoretically prove that pFedES can converge over wall-to-wall
time. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets against six
state-of-the-art methods demonstrate that pFedES builds the most accurate
model, while incurring low communication and computation costs. Compared with
the best-performing baseline, it achieves 1.61% higher test accuracy, while
reducing communication and computation costs by 99.6% and 82.9%, respectively.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:2310.1328
Numerical simulation of dental resurfacing of a feldspar porcelain with coarse diamond burs
Dental bioceramics are more and more attractive to both dentists and patients due to their unique biocompatibility and esthetics; they can be fabricated efficiently using chair-side CAD/CAM dental systems. However, the failure rate of ceramic prostheses is noticeable high. The major clinical failure mode lies in surface and subsurface damage in the ceramic prostheses due to their inherent brittleness. In clinical practice, ceramic prostheses are intraorally adjusted and resurfaced using dental handpieces/burs for marginal and occlusal fit. The clinical adjustments using abrasive burs produce surface and subsurface damage in prostheses. This paper will address this issue via numerical simulation. Finite element analysis was utilised to model the dental resurfacing of a feldspar porcelain with coarse diamond burs and to predict the degrees of subsurface damage of the porcelain prostheses
One Small Step for an Inflaton, One Giant Leap for Inflation: a novel non-Gaussian tail and primordial black holes
We report a novel prediction from single-field inflation that even a tiny
step in the inflaton potential can change our perception of primordial
non-Gaussianities of the curvature perturbation. Our analysis focuses on the
tail of probability distribution generated by an upward step transition between
two stages of slow-roll evolution. The nontrivial background dynamics with
off-attractor behavior is identified. By using a non-perturbative
analysis, we explicitly show that a highly non-Gaussian tail can be generated
by a tiny upward step, even when the conventional nonlinearity parameters
, , etc. remain small. With this example, we demonstrate for
the first time the sensitive dependence of non-perturbative effects on the tail
of probability distribution. Our scenario has an inconceivable application to
primordial black holes by either significantly boosting their abundance or
completely forbidding their appearance.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Full one-loop QCD and electroweak corrections to sfermion pair production in collisions
We have calculated the full one-loop electroweak (EW) and QCD corrections to
the third generation scalar-fermion pair production processes at an
electron-positron linear collider(LC) in the minimal supersymmetric standard
model (MSSM). We analyze the dependence of the radiative corrections on the
parameters such as the colliding energy and the SUSY
fundamental parameters , , , and so forth. The
numerical results show that the EW corrections to the squark-, stau-pair
production processes and QCD corrections to the squark-pair production
processes give substantial contributions in some parameter space. The EW
relative corrections to squark-pair production processes can be comparable with
QCD corrections at high energies. Therefore, these EW and QCD corrections
cannot be neglected in precise measurement of sfermion pair productions via
collision at future linear colliders.Comment: to be appeared in Phys. Rev.
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