Federated Learning Theory and Practice

Federated Learning: Theory and Practice provides a holistic treatment to federated learning, starting with a broad overview on federated learning as a distributed learning system with various forms of decentralized data and features. A detailed exposition then follows of core challenges and practical modeling techniques and solutions, spanning a variety of aspects in communication efficiency, theoretical convergence and security, viewed from different perspectives. Part II features emerging challenges stemming from many socially driven concerns of federated learning as a future public machine learning service, and Part III and IV present a wide array of industrial applications of federated learning, including potential venues and visions for federated learning in the near future. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to federated learning which is suitable for researchers and students in academia and industrial practitioners who seek to leverage the latest advances in machine learning for their entrepreneurial endeavors Presents the fundamentals and a survey of key developments in the field of federated learning Provides emerging, state-of-the art topics that build on fundamentals Contains industry applications Gives an overview of visions of the future