Federated Learning

This book provides a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to Federated Learning, ranging from the basic knowledge and theories to various key applications, and the privacy and incentive factors are the focus of the whole book. This book is timely needed since Federated Learning is getting popular after the release of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As Federated Learning aims to enable a machine model to be collaboratively trained without each party exposing private data to others. This setting adheres to regulatory requirements of data privacy protection such as GDPR.

Recently machine learning schemes have attained significant attention as key enablers for next-generation wireless systems. Currently, wireless systems are mostly using machine learning schemes that are based on centralizing the training and inference processes by migrating the end-devices data to a third party centralized location. However, these schemes lead to end-devices privacy leakage. To address these issues, one can use a distributed machine learning at network edge. In this context, federated learning (FL) is one of most important distributed learning algorithm, allowing devices to train a shared machine learning model while keeping data locally. However, applying FL in wireless networks and optimizing the performance involves a range of research topics. For example, in FL, training machine learning models require communication between wireless devices and edge servers via wireless links.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop, FL 2022, Held in Conjunction with IJCAI 2022, held in Vienna, Austria, during July 23-25, 2022.

by Qiang Yang (Author), Yang Liu (Author), Yong Cheng (Author), Yan Kang (Author), Tianjian Chen (Author)
How is it possible to allow multiple data owners to collaboratively train and use a shared prediction model while keeping all the local training data private?

An Introduction to Federated Learning: Concepts, Implementation, and Privacy Considerations