Happy new year!
Thanks for your interest on my implementatin.
TL; DR: it should not be set to zero.
As stated in (McMahan et al., 2017; https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05629), you should at first need to understand the role of a 'shard'. Please read it first, and then you may understand why you should set shards_per_clients as a positive number in order to simulate non-IID data split scenario.
I'll make it throw an appropriate error when users set argument related to the shard as inappropriate number.
Thank you.
Happy new year! Thanks for your interest on my implementatin. TL; DR: it should not be set to zero.
As stated in (McMahan et al., 2017; https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05629), you should at first need to understand the role of a 'shard'. Please read it first, and then you may understand why you should set
shards_per_clientsas a positive number in order to simulate non-IID data split scenario.I'll make it throw an appropriate error when users set argument related to the shard as inappropriate number. Thank you.