Scalable federated machine learning with FEDn
This addresses the need for practical federated learning tools for researchers and practitioners dealing with privacy and distributed data, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing simulation projects.
The authors tackled the lack of scalable, robust, and secure federated machine learning frameworks by developing FEDn, which supports both cross-device and cross-silo training settings, enabling realistic research across various applications.
Federated machine learning has great promise to overcome the input privacy challenge in machine learning. The appearance of several projects capable of simulating federated learning has led to a corresponding rapid progress on algorithmic aspects of the problem. However, there is still a lack of federated machine learning frameworks that focus on fundamental aspects such as scalability, robustness, security, and performance in a geographically distributed setting. To bridge this gap we have designed and developed the FEDn framework. A main feature of FEDn is to support both cross-device and cross-silo training settings. This makes FEDn a powerful tool for researching a wide range of machine learning applications in a realistic setting.