Swarm learning addresses data overload at the edge

Perhaps you've driven by a field and seen a flock of tens of thousands of starlings pulsing and whipping through the air, a relatively common sight, especially in Europe. Perhaps you've been swimming in the ocean and have seen a "fish ball" doing basically the same thing in the water. Different animals use a type of distributed behavior, often defensive, that cannot be traced to the movements of a "leader." This behavior, called scale-free correlation, murmuration, or swarming, may provide an answer to what to do with the geometric increase in data collected at the edge. Data has proliferated, in part, because sensors have proliferated writ large, gathering info from all over, such as from assembly lines, smartphones, people, medical devices, and vehicles.