Flower: A Friendly Federated AI Framework
!Flower (flwr) is a framework for building federated AI systems. The
design of Flower is based on a few guiding principles:
- Customizable: Federated learning systems vary wildly from one use case to
- Extendable: Flower originated from a research project at the University of
- Framework-agnostic: Different machine learning frameworks have different
- Understandable: Flower is written with maintainability in mind. The
Meet the Flower community on flower.ai!
Federated Learning Tutorial
Flower's goal is to make federated learning accessible to everyone. This series of tutorials introduces the fundamentals of federated learning and how to implement them in Flower.
Stay tuned, more tutorials are coming soon. Topics include Privacy and Security in Federated Learning, and Scaling Federated Learning.Documentation
- Installation
- Quickstart (TensorFlow)
- Quickstart (PyTorch)
- Quickstart (Hugging Face)
- Quickstart (PyTorch Lightning)
- Quickstart (Pandas)
- Quickstart (fastai)
- Quickstart (JAX)
- Quickstart (scikit-learn)
- [Quickstart (Android [TFLite])](https://flower.ai/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-android.html)
- [Quickstart (iOS [CoreML])](https://flower.ai/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-ios.html)
Flower Baselines
Flower Baselines is a collection of community-contributed projects that reproduce the experiments performed in popular federated learning publications. Researchers can build on Flower Baselines to quickly evaluate new ideas. The Flower community loves contributions! Make your work more visible and enable others to build on it by contributing it as a baseline!
- DASHA
- DepthFL
- FedBN
- FedMeta
- FedMLB
- FedPer
- FedProx
- FedNova
- HeteroFL
- FedAvgM
- FedRep
- FedStar
- FedWav2vec2
- FjORD
- MOON
- niid-Bench
- TAMUNA
- FedVSSL
- FedXGBoost
- FedPara
- FedAvg
- FedOpt
Flower Usage Examples
Several code examples show different usage scenarios of Flower (in combination with popular machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow).
Quickstart examples:
- Quickstart (TensorFlow)
- Quickstart (PyTorch)
- Quickstart (Hugging Face)
- Quickstart (PyTorch Lightning)
- Quickstart (fastai)
- Quickstart (Pandas)
- Quickstart (JAX)
- Quickstart (MONAI)
- Quickstart (scikit-learn)
- [Quickstart (Android [TFLite])](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/tree/main/examples/android)
- [Quickstart (iOS [CoreML])](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/tree/main/examples/ios)
- Quickstart (MLX)
- Quickstart (XGBoost)
- Quickstart (CatBoost)
- Raspberry Pi & Nvidia Jetson Tutorial
- PyTorch: From Centralized to Federated
- Vertical FL
- Federated Finetuning of OpenAI's Whisper
- Federated Finetuning of Large Language Model
- Federated Finetuning of a Vision Transformer
- Advanced Flower with PyTorch
- Comprehensive Flower+XGBoost
- Flower with KaplanMeierFitter from the lifelines library
- Sample Level Privacy with Opacus
- Flower with a Tabular Dataset
Community
Flower is built by a wonderful community of researchers and engineers. Join Slack to meet them, contributions are welcome.
Citation
If you publish work that uses Flower, please cite Flower as follows:
@article{beutel2020flower,
title={Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Research Framework},
author={Beutel, Daniel J and Topal, Taner and Mathur, Akhil and Qiu, Xinchi and Fernandez-Marques, Javier and Gao, Yan and Sani, Lorenzo and Kwing, Hei Li and Parcollet, Titouan and Gusmão, Pedro PB de and Lane, Nicholas D},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14390},
year={2020}
}Please also consider adding your publication to the list of Flower-based publications in the docs, just open a Pull Request.
Contributing to Flower
We welcome contributions. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md to get started!