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Reputation: 33

Collecting the weights returned by clients without aggregating them

I would like to know the easiest way to create a model, broadcast it with tensorflow federated, run a cycle and collect the weights returned by clients without aggregating them with the fedavg.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 312

Answers (1)

Keith Rush
Keith Rush

Reputation: 1405

TFF provides the tff.federated_collect intrinsic for this purpose; it materializes a stream of client data at the server.

One easy way to wire this into the guts of a mostly-existing federated procedure would be to fork simple_fedavg, which I think is a reasonable starting point for working with TFF's lower-level capabilities.

There are a few things to note here. First, no 'production' system of which I am aware supports federated_collect. Second, depending on your desire, there is possibly an easier and more straightforward solution: just return the client weights themselves. The TFF runtime will materialize a Python list of client weights (as eager tensors I believe), on which you can perform arbitrary python postprocessing.

To get here from simple_fedavg, you would effectively return the client_outputs directly instead of passing them to tff.federated_mean. This would give you the client deltas (IE, the difference between the final client weights and the initial client weights); you could, however, simply modify client_update to avoid computing this difference if desired.

Upvotes: 2

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