Faster Client

Faster Client in Federated Learning (FL) focuses on optimizing the training process by mitigating the impact of slow clients, which significantly hinder overall training speed. Current research explores various client selection and scheduling strategies, including adaptive bandwidth allocation, dynamic tiering based on client capabilities, and availability-aware selection, aiming to minimize wall-clock training time without sacrificing model accuracy. These advancements address the heterogeneity in client resources and network conditions, improving the efficiency and scalability of FL for diverse applications. The resulting improvements in training speed have significant implications for deploying FL in resource-constrained environments and for accelerating the development of large-scale machine learning models.

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