Fed-BioMed v4.1 new release
Fed-BioMed v4.1 is now available. Here are some key new features:
- Introducing Scaffold
Aggregation
method for PyTorch, focused to cope with the client drift issue, useful when dealing with heterogenous datasets - Adding
num_updates
as a newtraining_args
Argument:num_updates
allows you to iterate your model over a specific number of updates, regardless of the size of data accross eachNode
. It is an alternative to number of epochsepochs
- Adding more integration tests / introducing nightly tests in order to improve code quality
- improving
Researcher
log message, by introducingRound
number - Bug fixes (FedProx
Aggregation
method, percentage completion logged when using Opacus, and other minor fixes)
More details about the new features can be found in the Fed-BioMed CHANGELOG.