An Information-Theoretic Analysis of the Cost of Decentralization for Learning and Inference under Privacy Constraints

In vertical federated learning (FL), the features of a data sample are distributed across multiple agents. As such, inter-agent collaboration can be beneficial not only during the learning phase, as is the case for standard horizontal FL, but also during the inference phase. A fundamental theoretica...

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Main Authors: Sharu Theresa Jose, Osvaldo Simeone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-03-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/4/485