TensorFlow Federated

The TensorFlow Federated (TFF) platform consists of two layers:

• Federated Learning (FL), high-level interfaces to plug existing Keras or non-Keras machine learning models into the TFF framework. You can perform basic tasks, such as federated training or evaluation, without having to study the details of federated learning algorithms.
• Federated Core (FC), lower-level interfaces to concisely express custom federated algorithms by combining TensorFlow with distributed communication operators within a strongly-typed functional programming environment.

Start by reading the following tutorials that walk you through the main TFF concepts and APIs using practical examples. Make sure to follow the installation instructions to configure your environment for use with TFF.

• Federated Learning for image classification introduces the key parts of the Federated Learning (FL) API, and demonstrates how to use TFF to simulate federated learning on federated MNIST-like data.
• Federated Learning for text generation further demonstrates how to use TFF’s FL API to refine a serialized pre-trained model for a language modeling task.
• Custom Federated Algorithms, Part 1: Introduction to the Federated Core and Part 2: Implementing Federated Averaging introduce the key concepts and interfaces offered by the Federated Core API (FC API), and demonstrate how to implement a simple federated averaging training algorithm as well as how to perform federated evaluation.