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Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Framework

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Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Framework

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Flower (flwr) is a framework for building federated learning systems. The design of Flower is based on a few guiding principles:

  • Customizable: Federated learning systems vary wildly from one use case to another. Flower allows for a wide range of different configurations depending on the needs of each individual use case.

  • Extendable: Flower originated from a research project at the University of Oxford, so it was built with AI research in mind. Many components can be extended and overridden to build new state-of-the-art systems.

  • Framework-agnostic: Different machine learning frameworks have different strengths. Flower can be used with any machine learning framework, for example, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch Lightning, MXNet, scikit-learn, JAX, TFLite, fastai, Pandas for federated analytics, or even raw NumPy for users who enjoy computing gradients by hand.

  • Understandable: Flower is written with maintainability in mind. The community is encouraged to both read and contribute to the codebase.

Meet the Flower community on flower.dev!

Federated Learning Tutorial

Flower's goal is to make federated learning accessible to everyone. This series of tutorials introduces the fundamentals of federated learning and how to implement them in Flower.

  1. What is Federated Learning?

    Open in Colab (or open the Jupyter Notebook)

  2. An Introduction to Federated Learning

    Open in Colab (or open the Jupyter Notebook)

  3. Using Strategies in Federated Learning

    Open in Colab (or open the Jupyter Notebook)

  4. Building Strategies for Federated Learning

    Open in Colab (or open the Jupyter Notebook)

  5. Custom Clients for Federated Learning

    Open in Colab (or open the Jupyter Notebook)

Stay tuned, more tutorials are coming soon. Topics include Privacy and Security in Federated Learning, and Scaling Federated Learning.

Documentation

Flower Docs:

Flower Baselines

Flower Baselines is a collection of community-contributed experiments that reproduce the experiments performed in popular federated learning publications. Researchers can build on Flower Baselines to quickly evaluate new ideas:

Check the Flower documentation to learn more: Using Baselines

The Flower community loves contributions! Make your work more visible and enable others to build on it by contributing it as a baseline: Contributing Baselines

Flower Usage Examples

Several code examples show different usage scenarios of Flower (in combination with popular machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow).

Quickstart examples:

Other examples:

Community

Flower is built by a wonderful community of researchers and engineers. Join Slack to meet them, contributions are welcome.

Citation

If you publish work that uses Flower, please cite Flower as follows:

@article{beutel2020flower,
  title={Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Research Framework},
  author={Beutel, Daniel J and Topal, Taner and Mathur, Akhil and Qiu, Xinchi and Fernandez-Marques, Javier and Gao, Yan and Sani, Lorenzo and Kwing, Hei Li and Parcollet, Titouan and Gusmão, Pedro PB de and Lane, Nicholas D}, 
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14390},
  year={2020}
}

Please also consider adding your publication to the list of Flower-based publications in the docs, just open a Pull Request.

Contributing to Flower

We welcome contributions. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md to get started!

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