Federated learning (FL) is a distributed framework for collaboratively
training with privacy guarantees. In real-world scenarios, clients may have
Non-IID data (local class imbalance) with poor annotation quality (label
noise). The co-existence of label noise and class imbalance in FL's small local
datasets renders conventional FL methods and noisy-label learning methods both
ineffective. To address the challenges, we propose FedCNI without using an
additional clean proxy dataset. It includes a noise-resilient local solver and
a robust global aggregator. For the local solver, we design a more robust
prototypical noise detector to distinguish noisy samples. Further to reduce the
negative impact brought by the noisy samples, we devise a curriculum pseudo
labeling method and a denoise Mixup training strategy. For the global
aggregator, we propose a switching re-weighted aggregation method tailored to
different learning periods. Extensive experiments demonstrate our method can
substantially outperform state-of-the-art solutions in mix-heterogeneous FL
environments.

本篇论文提出了一种名为 FedCNI 的方法，通过使用噪声鲁棒局部求解器和强健的全局聚合器，在 Federated learning 的小规模本地数据集中解决标签噪声和类别不平衡带来的挑战，并在混合异构 FL 场景中实现了比现有技术更好的性能。