FedCCH: Automatic Personalized Graph Federated Learning for Inter-Client and Intra-Client Heterogeneity

Abstract

Graph federated learning (GFL) is increasingly utilized in domains such as social network analysis and recommendation systems, where non-IID data exist extensively and necessitate a strong emphasis on personalized learning. However, existing methods focus only on the personality among different clients instead of the personality within a client which widely exists in the real social networks, where intra-client personality addresses the heterogeneity of known data, while inter-client personality always tackle client heterogeneity under privacy constraint. In this paper, we propose a novel automatic personalized graph federated learning (PGFL) scheme named FedCCH to capture both inter-client and intra-client heterogeneity. For intra-client heterogeneity, we innovatively propose the learnable Personalized Factor (PF) to automatically normalize each graph representation within clients by learnable parameters, which weakens the impact of non-IID data distribution. For inter-client heterogeneity, we propose a novel hash-based similarity clustering method to generate the hash signature for each client, and then group similar clients for joint training among different clients. Ultimately, we collaboratively train intra-client and inter-client modules to improve the effectiveness of capturing the heterogeneity of the graph data of clients. Experiment results demonstrate that FedCCH outperforms other state-of-the-art baseline methods.