Federated Learning Resources

Key Research, Tools, and Learning Materials

Resources for Federated Learning

To deepen your understanding of Federated Learning, here is a curated list of resources. These include seminal research papers, open-source frameworks, insightful tutorials, comprehensive courses, and active communities. Whether you are a researcher, developer, or enthusiast, these resources will help you navigate the FL landscape.

Key Research Papers

• Communication-Efficient Learning of Deep Networks from Decentralized Data (McMahan et al., 2017)

  The foundational paper that introduced the Federated Averaging (FedAvg) algorithm.

• Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning (Kairouz et al., 2019)

  A comprehensive survey covering the progress, challenges, and open questions in FL.

• Towards Federated Learning at Scale: System Design (Bonawitz et al., 2019)

  Discusses the system design principles for building large-scale FL systems.

Open Source Frameworks

• TensorFlow Federated (TFF)

  An open-source framework by Google for machine learning and other computations on decentralized data.

• PySyft (OpenMined)

  A Python library for secure and private Deep Learning, allowing for federated learning with differential privacy and multi-party computation.

• Flower

  A friendly federated learning framework that is adaptable to various ML pipelines and client environments.

Tutorials, Courses & Books

• Federated Learning Tutorials by TFF

  Official tutorials to get started with TensorFlow Federated.

• Private AI Series by OpenMined on Udacity

  Courses covering privacy-preserving AI techniques, including Federated Learning.

• Federated Learning: Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Yang et al., 2020)

  A book offering a structured overview of FL principles and algorithms.

Communities & Conferences

• OpenMined Community

  A large and active community focused on privacy-preserving AI technologies.

• FL @ ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR

  Many top AI/ML conferences now have dedicated workshops or tracks for Federated Learning research.

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