So, correct me if I'm wrong, but this basically only works when you've already done your data exploration phase, you've committed to a particular topology, and

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but this basically only works when you've already done your data exploration phase, you've committed to a particular topology, and now you just want to optimize your weights? It seems that this won't work so great if you don't have any initial data to bootstrap yourself with. So, perhaps the idea is you bootstrap with a few people, do your explorations, and then scale it out with federation?