Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that facilitates collaborative training of a shared global model across devices while keeping data localized. The deployment of FL in numerous real-world applications faces delays, primarily due to the prevalent reliance on supervised tasks. Generating detailed labels at edge devices, if feasible, is demanding, given resource constraints and the imperative for continuous data updates. In addressing these challenges, solutions such as federated semi-supervised learning (FSSL), which relies on unlabeled clients' data and a limited amount of labeled data on the server, become pivotal. In this paper, we propose FedAnchor, an innovative FSSL method that introduces a unique double-head structure, called anchor head, paired with the classification head trained exclusively on labeled anchor data on the server. The anchor head is empowered with a newly designed label contrastive loss based on the cosine similarity metric. Our approach mitigates the confirmation bias and overfitting issues associated with pseudo-labeling techniques based on high-confidence model prediction samples. Extensive experiments on CIFAR10/100 and SVHN datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art method by a significant margin in terms of convergence rate and model accuracy.

本文提出了FedAnchor方法，它是一种创新的半监督学习方法，引入了独特的双头结构（称为锚头），与仅在服务器上进行训练的分类头配对，锚头使用基于余弦相似度度量的新设计标签对比损失，通过减轻伪标签技术中的确认偏见和过拟合问题，显著提高了模型的收敛速度和准确性。

FedAnchor: 为未标记的客户端增强联邦半监督学习的标签对比损失