Pfedhnsa: personalized federated hypernetworks with selective aggregation

Liu Yufeng1
Li Han1
Qin Yu2
Wu Qiuxin1
1. School of Applied Science, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 102206, China
2. Trusted Computing and Information Assurance Laboratory, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100190, China

Abstract

To address the challenges of vulnerability to gradient inversion attacks, high communication overhead, and performance degradation caused by data heterogeneity in federated learning-based smart healthcare systems, this paper proposes a personalized federated learning framework with selective aggregation based on hypernetworks, namely pFedHNSA (Personalized Federated HyperNetworks with Selective Aggregation) . The proposed method constructs an intelligent diagnosis system under the federated learning paradigm, where a hierarchical hypernetwork deployed on each hospital client dynamically generates personalized local model parameters via embedding vectors, thereby avoiding the direct transmission of complete model parameters or gradients and reducing privacy leakage risks from a structural perspective. Furthermore, we introduce a PCA-based embedding generation mechanism, which takes the trained local model parameters as input and performs dimensionality reduction to replace the traditional second-order backpropagation update, improving the stability and representational capability of embeddings. In addition, we design a selective aggregation strategy for the shared layers of the hypernetwork, where the system uploads only the public layers for global aggregation, significantly reducing communication overhead. Experiments conducted on CIFAR-10, Fashion-MNIST, and PathMNIST datasets under various non-IID settings demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms HyperFL, DPFedAvg, and CENTAUR in terms of model accuracy and communication efficiency while effectively defending against gradient inversion attacks, achieving a favorable trade-off among privacy preservation, communication cost, and model performance.

Foundation Support

国家自然科学基金资助项目(61604014)
国家重点研发计划战略性科技创新合作重点专项项目(2024YFE0211100)
未来区块链与隐私计算高精尖创新中心资助项目(GJJ-24-016)

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2026.03.0097
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Accepted Paper, Vol. 43, 2026 No. 12

Publish History

[2026-07-29] Accepted Paper

Cite This Article

刘玉峰, 李涵, 秦宇, 等. pFedHNSA:基于超网络的选择性聚合个性化联邦学习框架 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2026, 43 (12). (2026-08-25). https://doi.org/10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2026.03.0097. (Liu Yufeng, Li Han, Qin Yu, et al. Pfedhnsa: personalized federated hypernetworks with selective aggregation [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2026, 43 (12). (2026-08-25). https://doi.org/10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2026.03.0097. )

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