Federated Learning for Tabular Data using TabNet: A Vehicular Use-Case

Abstract--In this paper, we show how Federated Learning (FL) can be applied to vehicular use-cases in which we seek to classify obstacles, irregularities and pavement types on roads. Our proposed framework utilizes FL and TabNet, a state-ofthe-art neural network for tabular data. We are the first to demonstrate how TabNet can be integrated with FL. Moreover, we achieve a maximum test accuracy of 93.6%. Finally, we reason why FL is a suitable concept for this data set. Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning concept which advocates local computing and model transmission.