Florin MĂNĂILĂ

Executive Architect – NextGen Workloads and Distributed AI, IBM Client Engineering

Member of the IBM Academy of Technology (AoT)

Title:

IBM Federated Learning

Abstract:

Federated Learning (FL) is an approach to conduct machine learning without centralizing training data in a single place, for reasons of privacy, confidentiality or data volume. However, solving federated machine learning problems raises issues above and beyond those of centralized machine learning. These issues include setting up communication infrastructure between parties, coordinating the learning process, integrating party results, understanding the characteristics of the training data sets of different participating parties, handling data heterogeneity, and operating with the absence of a verification data set. IBM Federated Learning provides infrastructure and coordination for federated learning. This presentation will show how data scientists can design and run federated learning jobs based on existing, centralized machine learning models and can provide high-level instructions on how to run the federation. The framework applies to both Deep Neural Networks as well as “traditional” approaches for the most common machine learning libraries.