5.2 Algorithm - FedAvg

Implement Federated Averaging (FedAvg) algorithm[1].

Parameters

• factors (str, optional) - aggregation weight mode (default: "weighted")
  • "weighted": weighted average based on the size of local datasets
  • "arithmetic": arithmetic average
  • "self-defined": weighted average according to user-defined weights

Reference

[1] McMahan, Brendan, et al. "Communication-efficient learning of deep networks from decentralized data." Artificial intelligence and statistics. PMLR, 2017.

The user interface of FedAvg algorithm: