TY  - EJOU
AU  - Pu, Yao 
AU  - Zhou, Rou 
AU  - Chen, Yuling 

TI  - FedCANA: Communication-Efficient Adaptive Neighborhood Aggregation for Personalized Federated Learning under Non-IID Data
T2  - Computers, Materials \& Continua

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SN  - 1546-2226

AB  - Personalized federated learning (PFL) aims to address the insufficient adaptability of a single global model caused by Non-IID data. It improves client-specific performance by learning customized models for different clients. However, existing PFL methods based on similarity modeling often struggle to balance personalization performance and communication efficiency under Non-IID settings. To address this problem, this paper proposes FedCANA (Communication-Efficient Adaptive Neighborhood Aggregation), a communication-efficient personalized federated learning method for Non-IID data. First, FedCANA adopts Residual-Spatial Attention Collaborative (RSAC) module to strengthen the clients’ local representation ability, which provides a more stable model basis for subsequent similarity estimation. Second, FedCANA employs Saliency-Guided Differential Descriptor (SGDD) to select and upload critical residual information, which reduces redundant communication while preserving client-specific collaborative signals. Finally, FedCANA introduces Entropy-driven Adaptive Neighborhood Aggregation (EANA) to dynamically select similar clients for collaborative aggregation, which reduces the interference from less relevant clients and improves personalized model performance. Extensive experiments on three standard benchmark datasets under three Non-IID settings demonstrate that FedCANA achieves state-of-the-art personalized accuracy on most tasks, and yields up to 9.26% accuracy improvement on the highly heterogeneous CIFAR-100 dataset. Meanwhile, it maintains significantly lower communication overhead than mainstream similarity-based personalized federated learning methods, achieving a favorable trade-off between accuracy and communication efficiency.
KW  - Personalized federated learning; data heterogeneity; communication efficiency; machine learning; adaptive aggregation

DO  - 10.32604/cmc.2026.086553