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SCAFFOLD

A classical optimization algorithm in federated learning that introduces control variates for variance reduction, effectively mitigating client drift. It provides well-established theoretical convergence guarantees for federated convex optimization problems.

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Oct 30

Means of mitigating problems caused by non-IID data include the proximal term constraint of FedProx, the control variate correction of SCAFFOLD, and personalized federated learning.

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Sep 29

Federated convex optimization algorithms such as SCAFFOLD and FedProx correct client drift by introducing variance reduction or proximal regularization terms, and have established near-optimal communication complexity bounds.

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Sep 29

A key prerequisite for techniques such as SCAFFOLD and FedProx is that the operator F itself is a gradient field of some function, allowing the construction of a Lyapunov potential via function value descent to prove convergence, whereas a general monotone operator does not possess such a potential function.

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