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A few years ago, someone (Apple?) was working on a way to distribute the training of ML models across personal devices. The idea was that the master model in th
by Anon84 3y ago
A few years ago, someone (Apple?) was working on a way to distribute the training of ML models across personal devices. The idea was that the master model in the Cloud could be trained on your personal data without the data ever leaving your device. Not sure if that was ever put into production, but this feels like a scaled-up version of that with distributed data centers instead of iPhones
- magicarp 3y agoGoogle has done a lot of work in this area: https://federated.withgoogle.com/ https://federated.withgoogle.com/
- mattnewton 3y agoGoogle has shipped this in gboard, the Google keyboard - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.02903.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.02903.pdf (Disclaimer, I worked on a later version of this for other models in the android keyboard at Google)
- Anon84 3y agoYeah, it makes sense that it was Google as it’s in the same wheelhouse. Thank you both for the references