Communication-Efficient Federated Learning: From Theory to Production
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Communication is the most expensive operation in federated learning. While devices have increasingly powerful processors, network bandwidth remains constrained—especially on mobile devices with unreliable connections. This fundamental bottleneck has driven a decade of research into communication-efficient FL techniques.
In this post, we explore state-of-the-art communication reduction methods and show how Octomil implements these techniques for production use.