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Flower Hub: A Reproducible Benchmarking Platform for Federated Learning in Simulation and Deployment

Yan Gao, Mohammad Naseri, Javier Fernandez-Marques +19

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a key approach for training models across decentralized data, yet benchmarking in FL remains difficult to reproduce, compare, and extend. Exi…

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FoMoE: Breaking the Full-Replica Barrier with a Federation of MoEs

Lorenzo Sani, Zeyu Cao, Meghdad Kurmanji +5

Pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) typically demands large-scale infrastructure with tightly coupled hardware accelerators. Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs) architectures partially…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Photon: Federated LLM Pre-Training

Lorenzo Sani, Alex Iacob, Zeyu Cao +8

Scaling large language models (LLMs) demands extensive data and computing resources, which are traditionally constrained to data centers by the high-bandwidth requirements of distr…

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DEPT: Decoupled Embeddings for Pre-training Language Models

Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Meghdad Kurmanji +5

Language Model pre-training uses broad data mixtures to enhance performance across domains and languages. However, training on such heterogeneous text corpora requires extensive an…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

The Future of Large Language Model Pre-training is Federated

Lorenzo Sani, Alex Iacob, Zeyu Cao +8

Generative pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance over a wide range of tasks, thanks to the unprecedented amount of data they have been t…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

FedAnchor: Enhancing Federated Semi-Supervised Learning with Label Contrastive Loss for Unlabeled Clients

Xinchi Qiu, Yan Gao, Lorenzo Sani +6

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that facilitates collaborative training of a shared global model across devices while keeping data localized. The deploym…