FedGT: Federated Node Classification with Scalable Graph Transformer
Primary Area: general machine learning (i.e., none of the above)
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Keywords: Graph Federated Learning, Graph Transformer, Node Classification
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Abstract: Graphs are widely used to model relational data in various data mining tasks. As graphs are getting larger and larger in real-world scenarios, there is a trend to store and compute subgraphs in multiple local systems. For example, recently proposed \emph{subgraph federated learning} methods train Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) distributively on local subgraphs and aggregate GNN parameters with a central server. However, existing methods have the following limitations: (1) The links between local subgraphs are missing in the subgraph federated learning. This could severely damage the performance of GNNs that follow message-passing paradigms to update node/edge features. (2) Most existing methods overlook the subgraph heterogeneity issue, brought by subgraphs being from different parts of the whole graph. To address the aforementioned challenges, we propose a scalable \textbf{Fed}erated \textbf{G}raph \textbf{T}ransformer (\textbf{FedGT}) in the paper. Firstly, we design a hybrid attention scheme to reduce the complexity of Graph Transformer to linear while ensuring a global receptive field with theoretical bounds. Specifically, each node attends to the sampled local neighbors and a set of curated global nodes to learn both local and global information and be robust to missing links. The global nodes are dynamically updated during training with an online clustering algorithm to capture the data distribution of the corresponding local subgraph. Secondly, FedGT computes similarity based on the aligned global nodes with optimal transport. The similarity is used to perform weighted averaging for personalized aggregation, which well addresses the data heterogeneity problem. Moreover, local differential privacy is applied to further protect the privacy of clients. Finally, extensive experimental results on 6 datasets and both non-overlapping and overlapping subgraph settings validate the effectiveness of FedGT.
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Submission Number: 3964
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