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Towards Federated Foundation Models: Scalable Dataset Pipelines for Group-Structured Learning Zachary Charles

Neural Information Processing Systems

We introduce Dataset Grouper, a library to create large-scale group-structured (e.g., federated) datasets, enabling federated learning simulation at the scale of foundation models. This library facilitates the creation of group-structured versions of existing datasets based on user-specified partitions, and directly leads to a variety of useful heterogeneous datasets that can be plugged into existing software frameworks. Dataset Grouper offers three key advantages. First, it scales to settings where even a single group's dataset is too large to fit in memory. Second, it provides flexibility, both in choosing the base (non-partitioned) dataset and in defining partitions.





How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade

MIT Technology Review

Fast, stealthy, and cheap--autonomous, semisubmersible drone boats carrying tons of cocaine could be international law enforcement's nightmare scenario. A big one just came ashore. Colombian military officials intercepted this 40-foot-long uncrewed fiberglass "narco sub" in the ocean just off Tayrona National Park. On a bright morning last April, a surveillance plane operated by the Colombian military spotted a 40-foot-long shark-like silhouette idling in the ocean just off Tayrona National Park. It was, unmistakably, a "narco sub," a stealthy fiberglass vessel that sails with its hull almost entirely underwater, used by drug cartels to move cocaine north. The plane's crew radioed it in, and eventually nearby coast guard boats got the order, routine but urgent: Intercept. In Cartagena, about 150 miles from the action, Captain Jaime Gonzรกlez Zamudio, commander of the regional coast guard group, sat down at his desk to watch what happened next.


Learning Distributedand Fair Policiesfor Network Load Balancingas Markov Potential Game

Neural Information Processing Systems

At t 2 H inahorizonH ofthegireceiwi(t) 2 W, theworkload policy i 2 , where istheload t, a anactionai(t)= {aij(t)}Nj=1, accordingwi(t) are i(t). Q (o, a) r(o, a) Eo0[V (o0)] 2 , whereV (o0)= Ea0[Q (o0,a0) log (a0|o0)] and Q isthetargetQ network; theactorpolicy isupdatedwiththegradient r Eo[Ea [ log (a|o) Q (o, a)]].