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Secure Federated Learning Across Heterogeneous Cloud and High-Performance Computing Resources: A Case Study on Federated Fine-Tuning of LLaMA 2

Journal Article · · Computing in Science and Engineering

Federated learning enables multiple data owners to collaboratively train robust machine learning models without transferring large or sensitive local datasets by only sharing the parameters of the locally trained models. Here, in this article, we elaborate on the design of our Advanced Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning (APPFL) framework, which streamlines end-to-end secure and reliable federated learning experiments across cloud computing facilities and high-performance computing resources by leveraging Globus Compute, a distributed function as a service platform, and Amazon Web Services. We further demonstrate the use case of APPFL in fine-tuning an LLaMA 2 7B model using several cloud resources and supercomputers.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
2569854
Journal Information:
Computing in Science and Engineering, Journal Name: Computing in Science and Engineering Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 26; ISSN 1521-9615; ISSN 1558-366X
Publisher:
IEEE Computer SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (4)

Globus auth: A research identity and access management platform conference October 2016
APPFL: Open-Source Software Framework for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning conference May 2022
funcX: A Federated Function Serving Fabric for Science
  • Chard, Ryan; Babuji, Yadu; Li, Zhuozhao
  • HPDC '20: The 29th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing https://doi.org/10.1145/3369583.3392683
conference June 2020
Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning journal January 2021

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