School of Computer Science

Technical Workshop Series

Workshop Title: Introduction to Federated Learning – Part 1 (1^st Offering)

Presenter:  Safiia Mohammed

Date: Monday, October 16^th, 2023

Time:  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Location: 4^th Floor (Workshop space) at 300 Ouellette Avenue (School of Computer Science Advanced Computing Hub)

LATECOMERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED once the presentation has begun.

 

Abstract: 

This workshop will cover the main concepts of Federated Learning when different agents/ workers can join a federated environment to train their models without sharing their datasets. The workshops will give examples of working on open-source frameworks.

 

Workshop Outline:

• 1.1. What is federated learning?
• 1.2 federated learning architecture / how does it work?
• 1.3.  FL vs centralized learning
• 1.4. FL applications
• 1.5. Privacy issues in FL

 

Prerequisites:

Python, preferred to know PyTorch/tensor flow frameworks.

 

Biography: 

Safiia is a Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science (University of Windsor). She is interested in applying ML in Cybersecurity.