Exploiting diversity via importance-aware user scheduling for fast edge learning

Dongzhu Liu, Guangxu Zhu, Jun Zhang, Kaibin Huang

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Abstract

With the prevalence of intelligent mobile applications, edge learning is emerging as a promising technology for powering fast intelligence acquisition for edge devices from distributed data generated at the network edge. One critical task of edge learning is to efficiently utilize the limited radio resource to acquire data samples for model training at an edge server. In this paper, we develop a novel user scheduling algorithm for data acquisition in edge learning, called (data) importance-aware scheduling. A key feature of this scheduling algorithm is that it takes into account the informativeness of data samples, besides communication reliability. Specifically, the scheduling decision is based on a data importance indicator (DII), elegantly incorporating two importance metrics from communication and learning perspectives, i.e., the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and data uncertainty. We derive an explicit expression for this indicator targeting the classic classifier of support vector machine (SVM), where the uncertainty of a data sample is measured by its distance to the decision boundary. As demonstrated via experiments using real datasets, the proposed importance-aware scheduling method can exploit the two-fold multi-user diversity, namely the diversity in both the multiuser channels and the distributed data samples. This leads to faster model convergence than the conventional scheduling schemes that exploit only a single type of diversity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728174402
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2020
Event2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2020 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 7 Jun 202011 Jun 2020

Publication series

Name2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2020 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2020
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period7/06/2011/06/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Signal Processing
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Control and Optimization

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