GraphP-FL: Personalized Federated Graph Learning via Dynamic Structure Awareness and Fisher Information Elastic Alignment
Haoyu Chen, Zening Zhao, Jinsong Wang, Kai Shi, Zongpu Wei, Jianhao Li
Abstract
Federated Graph Learning (FGL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train graph neural networks while strictly preserving data privacy. However, existing FGL methods implicitly assume the reliability of local graph structures and lack elastic awareness of parameter importance during model aggregation, leading to representation degradation under topological noise and catastrophic forgetting caused by model drift. To address these challenges, we propose GraphP-FL, a general personalized FGL framework. (1) Specifically, we design a self-supervised dynamic topology reconstruction mechanism on the client side. This mechanism mines implicit dependencies to adaptively rectify noisy topologies, effectively suppressing topological noise propagation and capturing precise structural relationships for high-quality representations. (2) Additionally, we introduce a Fisher-based Elastic Parameter Alignment (FRPA) algorithm. FRPA imposes anisotropic regularization constraints in the parameter space to precisely quantify parameter importance, enabling the model to strictly preserve critical local knowledge while flexibly aligning with the global model, thus effectively overcoming catastrophic forgetting. Extensive experiments on seven benchmarks (including biochemical molecules, social networks, and large-scale encrypted traffic) demonstrate that GraphP-FL significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, improving accuracy by up to 8.6% while exhibiting superior generalization and robustness.
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