Federated Learning: Theory and Practice provides a holistic treatment to federated learning, starting with a broad overview on federated learning as a distributed learning system with various forms of decentralized data and features. A detailed exposition then follows of core challenges and practical modeling techniques and solutions, spanning a variety of aspects in communication efficiency, theoretical convergence and security, viewed from different perspectives. Part II features emerging challenges stemming from many socially driven concerns of federated learning as a future public machine learning service, and Part III and IV present a wide array of industrial applications of federated learning, including potential venues and visions for federated learning in the near future. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to federated learning which is suitable for researchers and students in academia and industrial practitioners who seek to leverage the latest adva
