FederatedBytes: Tokenizer-Free, Byte-Level Small Language Models for Efficient Multimodal Federated Learning

Key points

• Federated Learning (FL) is a powerful machine learning framework that allows building a global model from the contributions of multiple, distributed clients, while ensuring the privacy of their local data.1
• The proposed model, nicknamed FederatedBytes, manages to process text and any other data types, including images, by treating its input as a mere sequence of bytes, while its lean linear attention mechanism allows abating the overall memory and computational footprint.1
• To prove the effectiveness of the proposed model we have carried out an extensive performance evaluation on sentiment analysis tasks in multilingual and multimodal settings over the Multilingual Amazon Reviews and ScienceQA datasets.1
• The experimental results show that FederatedBytes has been able to outperform comparable models such as ByT5 and LSTM, achieving higher accuracy while significantly reducing memory and communication overheads.1

Sources (1)

• [1]FederatedBytes: Tokenizer-Free, Byte-Level Small Language Models for Efficient Multimodal Federated Learning
  arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 16, 04:14 AM

  For this reason, this paper presents a novel small language model that leverages byte-level text and multimodal data processing, enhanced by a linear attention mechanism, to enable manageable Federated Learning of NLP and multimodal analysis tasks.

  Federated Learning (FL) is a powerful machine learning framework that allows building a global model from the contributions of multiple, distributed clients, while ensuring the privacy of their local data.

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