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Personalized Subgraph Federated Learning with Sheaf Collaboration

Published: August 19, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2508.13642v1

By: Wenfei Liang , Yanan Zhao , Rui She and more

Potential Business Impact:

Helps computers learn better from connected data.

Business Areas:
Personalization Commerce and Shopping

Graph-structured data is prevalent in many applications. In subgraph federated learning (FL), this data is distributed across clients, each with a local subgraph. Personalized subgraph FL aims to develop a customized model for each client to handle diverse data distributions. However, performance variation across clients remains a key issue due to the heterogeneity of local subgraphs. To overcome the challenge, we propose FedSheafHN, a novel framework built on a sheaf collaboration mechanism to unify enhanced client descriptors with efficient personalized model generation. Specifically, FedSheafHN embeds each client's local subgraph into a server-constructed collaboration graph by leveraging graph-level embeddings and employing sheaf diffusion within the collaboration graph to enrich client representations. Subsequently, FedSheafHN generates customized client models via a server-optimized hypernetwork. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that FedSheafHN outperforms existing personalized subgraph FL methods on various graph datasets. Additionally, it exhibits fast model convergence and effectively generalizes to new clients.

Country of Origin
πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¬ Singapore

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Page Count
15 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Machine Learning (CS)