Notes from the SIG Federated meeting on 9/29/2022

• TFF and OpenMined (now joining the SIG) collaborating

  • Companion blog posts just published this week

    • https://blog.tensorflow.org/2022/09/bridging-communities-tensorflow-federated-tff-and-openmined.html

    • https://blog.openmined.org/announcing-proof-of-concept-support-for-tff-in-pysyft-0-7/

  • Similarities vs. differences compared to what LinkedIn and others are building?

    • Both logical vs. physical isolation are important in scenarios of interest to LinkedIn

    • Jeremy: interested mostly in classical x-silo (not this prototype; coming later)

    • Deep dive in next meeting - schedules for 10/13/2022

• Continued from September 22

  • Performance discussion

    • Observing about 2x penalty in scenatoips with O(1000s) or rounds

    • Suspects: TFF setup cost, communication

    • Overlapping data ingestion and computation likely to help

    • Code to support this upcoming

      • https://github.com/tensorflow/federated/blob/main/tensorflow\_federated/python/program/prefetching\_data\_source.py

      • Discussion continued on the Discord server

  • Versioning - also relevant to OpenMined (need to resolve 3-way)

    • To discuss at a future meeting