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Harnessing Vision-Language Models for Federated Unsupervised Visual Recognition
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Federated learning (FL) is a promising research paradigm that enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without data sharing. To handle unlabeled data in local clients, existing unsupervised FL research has primarily focused on tasks like clustering and self-supervised representation learning, leaving the critical problem of unsupervised visual recognition largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce FedUR, the first framework designed for unsupervised recognition by leveraging the zero-shot capabilities of pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP. Specifically, FedUR addresses data heterogeneity through a pseudo-labeling mechanism with a class-aware data selection strategy. This strategy first estimates a global pseudo-label distribution, then allocates pseudo-labeled data to clients accordingly. To handle the uncertainty of conventional positive pseudo-labels, FedUR further incorporates class weights and a negative pseudo-labeling strategy. Furthermore, FedUR proposes a personalized prompt aggregation protocol where general visual prompts are aggregated on the server, and personalized text prompts encoding local knowledge are retained on clients. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FedUR consistently outperforms baseline methods under both label-level and feature-level distribution shifts. We believe this work paves the way for further advances in federated unsupervised recognition. Code will be available at {github.com/tim-learn/FedUR/}}.
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Harnessing Vision-Language Models for Federated Unsupervised Visual Recognition
Federated learning (FL) is a promising research paradigm that enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without data sharing. To handle unlabeled data in local clients, existing unsupervised FL research has primarily focused on tasks like clustering and self-supervised representation learning, leaving the critical problem of unsupervised visual recognition largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce FedUR, the first framework designed for unsupervised recognition by leveraging the zero-shot capabilities of pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP. Specifically, FedUR addresses data heterogeneity through a pseudo-labeling mechanism with a class-aware data selection strategy. This strategy first estimates a global pseudo-label distribution, then allocates pseudo-labeled data to clients accordingly. To handle the uncertainty of conventional positive pseudo-labels, FedUR further incorporates class weights and a negative pseudo-labeling strategy. Furthermore, FedUR proposes a personalized prompt aggregation protocol where general visual prompts are aggregated on the server, and personalized text prompts encoding local knowledge are retained on clients. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FedUR consistently outperforms baseline methods under both label-level and feature-level distribution shifts. We believe this work paves the way for further advances in federated unsupervised recognition. Code will be available at {github.com/tim-learn/FedUR/}}.
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