Differentially Private Clustered Federated Learning with Privacy-Preserving Initialization and Normality-Driven Aggregation
Federated learning (FL) enables training of a global model while keeping raw data on end-devices. Despite this, FL has shown to leak private user information and thus in practice, it is often coupled with methods such as differential privacy (DP) and secure vector sum to provide formal privacy guarantees to its participants. In realistic cross-device deployments, the data are highly heterogeneous, so vanilla federated learning converges slowly and generalizes poorly. Clustered federated learning (CFL) mitigates this by segregating users into clusters, leading to lower intra-cluster data heterogeneity. Nevertheless, coupling CFL with DP remains challenging: the injected DP noise makes individual client updates excessively noisy, and the server is unable to initialize cluster centroids with the less noisy aggregated updates. To address this challenge, we propose PINA, a two-stage framework that first lets each client fine-tune a lightweight low-rank adaptation (LoRA) adapter and privately share a compressed sketch of the update. The server leverages these sketches to construct robust cluster centroids. In the second stage, PINA introduces a normality-driven aggregation mechanism that improves convergence and robustness. Our method retains the benefits of clustered FL while providing formal privacy guarantees against an untrusted server. Extensive evaluations show that our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art DP-FL algorithms by an average of 2.9% in accuracy for privacy budgets (epsilon in {2, 8}).
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