Sunday-FL – Developing Open Source Platform for Federated Learning

Abstract

Since its inception, in approximately 2017, federated learning became an area of intensive research. Obviously, such research requires tools that can be used for experimentation. Here, the biggest industrial players proposed their own platforms, but these platforms are anchored in tools that they “promote”. Moreover, they are mainly "all-in-one" solutions, aimed at facilitating the federate learning process, rather than supporting research “about it”. Taking this into account, we have decided to start developing an open source modular flexible federated learning platform. The aim of this contribution is to briefly summarize key aspects of federated learning and, in this context, to introduce our platform.