EDEN

[jafermarq]

EDEN

• Title: EDEN: Communication-Efficient and Robust Distributed Mean Estimation for Federated Learning
• Venue: ICML 2022
• Link to paper: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/vargaftik22a

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[srishti-git1110]

Hi @jafermarq I would like to work on this.

The experiments that I am willing to reproduce (atleast initially) are the following -

1. Comparing EDEN with a non-compressed baseline that uses 32-bit floating-point representation for each coordinate (Float32) and the following DME techniques: (a) Hadamard + SQ (b) Kashin + SQ (c) QSGD
2. Evaluating the vNMSE and encoding speed of EDEN, and comparing to above three DME techniques [Figure 2 in the paper]
3. Evaluating EDEN over the federated versions of the EMNIST image classification task and the Shakespeare (Shakespeare) next-word prediction task. [Figure 3 in the paper]

Please confirm and I'll start working on this immediately. Thank you!

[jafermarq]

Hi @srishti-git1110 , it's great to hear you are keen in implementing EDEN. Thanks for the detailed contribution plan. Looks good to me! Just one thing before we move forward, could you confirm that you are based in one of the eligible countries/territories in the list above? (no need to say where, just saying "yes" is good enough -- if you aren't, please read the comment below the list of countries).

[srishti-git1110]

Yes, @jafermarq I am based out of India.

[jafermarq]

Ok! thanks for confirming. Then you are set to start your journey in the Summer of Reproducibility. I have ✅ the points in Step 1&2 above, added you as the assignee to this issue/baseline, and moved EDEN to In Progress status. You can find a guide on how to start with the code by following the link shown in the What happens next? section above. If you have questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to let us know on either the #questions channel or the #summer-of-reproducibility channel in our Slack.

Really looking forward to seeing EDEN in action!

[jafermarq]

Hi @srishti-git1110,

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