Learning objectives:

In this lecture, you will learn:

• Lec8a: the motivation of Ray and the Ray APIs (tasks and actors).
• Lec8b: how federated learning works and why there is a need for the new federated learning model.
• Lec8b: challenges of heterogeneity and techniques of today’s large-scale federated learning systems to address these challenges.

Lecture slides

• Lec8a: Reinforcement learning system: Ray: slides pdf, slides pdf+notes, notebook demo
• Lec8b: Federated learning system: slides pdf

Readings

• Lec8a: The Ray paper

Lecture videos

• Lec8a: Video (Second half is for Lecture 8a).
• Lec8b: Video.