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48 results for TensorFlow Federated

This paper studies backdoor attacks in federated learning and proposes defenses.

problem Detecting and defending against backdoor attacks in federated learning.
method Study of backdoor attacks and defenses on the EMNIST dataset, focusing on non-malicious clients.
result Norm clipping and weak differential privacy can mitigate backdoor attacks without significantly affecting overall performance.

Federated Learning is a distributed machine learning approach which enables model training on a large corpus of decentralized data. We have built a scalable production system for Federated Learning in the domain of mobile devices, based on TensorFlow. In this paper, we describe the resulting high-level design, sketch s…

2019-02-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Federated Learning over wireless networks tackles resource allocation challenges.

problem Heterogeneity in UE data and resources in Federated Learning.
method Proposed FL algorithm for heterogeneous data, convergence rate analysis, and resource allocation optimization.
result The proposed algorithm outperforms vanilla FedAvg in convergence rate and accuracy.

Google's Machine Learning framework TensorFlow was open-sourced in November 2015 [1] and has since built a growing community around it. TensorFlow is supposed to be flexible for research purposes while also allowing its models to be deployed productively. This work is aimed towards people with experience in Machine Lea…

2016-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper improves financial simulations using Tensor Processing Units and Tensorflow.

problem Estimating sensitivities in financial models efficiently.
method Utilizing Tensor Processing Units and Tensorflow for fast and automated differentiation.
result Single line of code for estimating sensitivities in financial models.

TensorFI injects faults in TensorFlow programs to assess their reliability.

problem Ensuring reliability of machine learning systems in safety-critical domains.
method TensorFI is a flexible fault injection framework for TensorFlow applications.
result TensorFI evaluates the resilience of 12 ML programs, including autonomous vehicle DNNs.

Batch-splitting (data-parallelism) is the dominant distributed Deep Neural Network (DNN) training strategy, due to its universal applicability and its amenability to Single-Program-Multiple-Data (SPMD) programming. However, batch-splitting suffers from problems including the inability to train very large models (due to…

2018-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The TensorFlow Distributions library implements a vision of probability theory adapted to the modern deep-learning paradigm of end-to-end differentiable computation. Building on two basic abstractions, it offers flexible building blocks for probabilistic computation. Distributions provide fast, numerically stable metho…

2017-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

There is a perceived trade-off between machine learning code that is easy to write, and machine learning code that is scalable or fast to execute. In machine learning, imperative style libraries like Autograd and PyTorch are easy to write, but suffer from high interpretive overhead and are not easily deployable in prod…

2018-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

GPflow is a Gaussian process library that uses TensorFlow for its core computations and Python for its front end. The distinguishing features of GPflow are that it uses variational inference as the primary approximation method, provides concise code through the use of automatic differentiation, has been engineered with…

2016-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

While accelerators such as GPUs have limited memory, deep neural networks are becoming larger and will not fit with the memory limitation of accelerators for training. We propose an approach to tackle this problem by rewriting the computational graph of a neural network, in which swap-out and swap-in operations are ins…

2018-07-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper compares machine learning models for pricing European options.

problem Pricing European options using traditional methods like Black Scholes Model.
method Google AutoML Regressor, TensorFlow Neural Networks, and XGBoost Gradient Boosting Decision Trees.
result All models outperformed the Black Scholes Model in terms of mean absolute error.

We describe TF-Replicator, a framework for distributed machine learning designed for DeepMind researchers and implemented as an abstraction over TensorFlow. TF-Replicator simplifies writing data-parallel and model-parallel research code. The same models can be effortlessly deployed to different cluster architectures (i…

2019-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Training modern deep learning models requires large amounts of computation, often provided by GPUs. Scaling computation from one GPU to many can enable much faster training and research progress but entails two complications. First, the training library must support inter-GPU communication. Depending on the particular …

2018-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel Python framework for Bayesian optimization known as GPflowOpt is introduced. The package is based on the popular GPflow library for Gaussian processes, leveraging the benefits of TensorFlow including automatic differentiation, parallelization and GPU computations for Bayesian optimization. Design goals focus on…

2017-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper develops a federated EM algorithm for unsupervised learning of mixture models.

problem Theoretical foundations of unsupervised federated learning are lacking.
method Introduces a federated gradient EM algorithm (FedGrEM) for unsupervised learning of mixture models.
result Theoretical analysis shows FedGrEM outperforms local single-task learning.

Federated multi-mini-batch improves efficiency in non-IID environments.

problem Performance and communication efficiency challenges in federated learning with non-IID data.
method Introduces federated multi-mini-batch approach to balance performance and communication.
result Federated multi-mini-batch outperforms federated averaging in non-IID settings.

A practical one-shot federated learning algorithm for cross-silo setting.

problem Limited applicability of existing one-shot federated learning algorithms due to specific model support and lack of privacy guarantees.
method FedKT, a one-shot federated learning algorithm that supports any classification models and provides differential privacy guarantees.
result FedKT significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art federated learning algorithms with a single communication round.

A framework to compare federated learning algorithms in high-dimensional settings.

problem Comparing the performance of federated learning algorithms in high-dimensional settings.
method Formulating federated learning as a multi-criterion objective and analyzing a linear regression model.
result Federated Averaging with simple client fine-tuning achieves the same asymptotic risk as more intricate approaches and outperforms without personalization.

pFedGame uses game theory for decentralized federated learning in dynamic networks.

problem Performance bottlenecks, data bias, model convergence issues, and model poisoning attacks in federated learning.
method pFedGame employs game theory to decentralize federated learning, avoiding a central aggregation server and addressing dynamic network challenges.
result pFedGame achieves higher accuracy (over 70%) in heterogeneous data compared to existing methods.

This paper analyzes privacy threats in federated matrix factorization.

problem Privacy threats in federated matrix factorization models.
method Categorizes federated matrix factorization into three types and analyzes privacy threats.
result This is the first study of privacy threats in federated matrix factorization.

In federated learning, a central server coordinates the training of a single model on a massively distributed network of devices. This setting can be naturally extended to a multi-task learning framework, to handle real-world federated datasets that typically show strong statistical heterogeneity among devices. Despite…

2019-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗