Federated Learning with Spiking Neural Networks in Heterogeneous Systems

Sadia Anjum Tumpa, Sonali Singh, Md Fahim Faysal Khan, Mahmut Tylan Kandemir, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chita R. Das

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Abstract

With the advances in IoT and edge-computing, Federated Learning is ever more popular as it offers data privacy. Low-power spiking neural networks (SNN) are ideal candidates for local nodes in such federated setup. Most prior works assume that the participating nodes have uniform compute resources, which may not be practical. In this work, we propose a federated SNN learning framework for a realistic heterogeneous environment, consisting of nodes with diverse memory-compute capabilities through activation-checkpointing and time-skipping that offers 4times reduction in effective memory requirement for low-memory nodes while improving the accuracy upto 10% for non-independent and identically-distributed data.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2023 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2023 - Proceedings
EditorsFernanda Kastensmidt, Ricardo Reis, Aida Todri-Sanial, Hai Li, Carolina Metzler
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9798350327694
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event26th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2023 - Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
Duration: Jun 20 2023Jun 23 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI
Volume2023-June
ISSN (Print)2159-3469
ISSN (Electronic)2159-3477

Conference

Conference26th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2023
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityFoz do Iguacu
Period6/20/236/23/23

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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