tff.learning.framework.EnhancedModel

A wrapper around a Model that adds sanity checking and metadata helpers.

Inherits From: Model

tff.learning.framework.EnhancedModel(
    model
)

federated_output_computation Performs federated aggregation of the Model's local_outputs.

This is typically used to aggregate metrics across many clients, e.g. the body of the computation might be:

return {
    'num_examples': tff.federated_sum(local_outputs.num_examples),
    'loss': tff.federated_mean(local_outputs.loss)
}

N.B. It is assumed all TensorFlow computation happens in the report_local_outputs method, and this method only uses TFF constructs to specify aggregations across clients.

input_spec The type specification of the batch_input parameter for forward_pass.

A nested structure of tf.TensorSpec objects, that matches the structure of arguments that will be passed as the batch_input argument of forward_pass. The tensors must include a batch dimension as the first dimension, but the batch dimension may be undefined.

Similar in spirit to tf.keras.models.Model.input_spec.

local_variables An iterable of tf.Variable objects, see class comment for details.
non_trainable_variables An iterable of tf.Variable objects, see class comment for details.
trainable_variables An iterable of tf.Variable objects, see class comment for details.
weights Returns a tff.learning.ModelWeights.

Methods

forward_pass

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forward_pass(
    batch_input, training=True
)

Runs the forward pass and returns results.

This method should not modify any variables that are part of the model parameters, that is, variables that influence the predictions. Rather, this is done by the training loop.

However, this method may update aggregated metrics computed across calls to forward_pass; the final values of such metrics can be accessed via aggregated_outputs.

Uses in TFF:

  • To implement model evaluation.
  • To implement federated gradient descent and other non-Federated-Averaging algorithms, where we want the model to run the forward pass and update metrics, but there is no optimizer (we might only compute gradients on the returned loss).
  • To implement Federated Averaging.

Args
batch_input a nested structure that matches the structure of Model.input_spec and each tensor in batch_input satisfies tf.TensorSpec.is_compatible_with() for the corresponding tf.TensorSpec in Model.input_spec.
training If True, run the training forward pass, otherwise, run in evaluation mode. The semantics are generally the same as the training argument to keras.Model.__call__; this might e.g. influence how dropout or batch normalization is handled.

Returns
A BatchOutput object. The object must include the loss tensor if the model will be trained via a gradient-based algorithm.

report_local_outputs

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report_local_outputs()

Returns tensors representing values aggregated over forward_pass calls.

In federated learning, the values returned by this method will typically be further aggregated across clients and made available on the server.

This method returns results from aggregating across all previous calls to forward_pass, most typically metrics like accuracy and loss. If needed, we may add a clear_aggregated_outputs method, which would likely just run the initializers on the local_variables.

In general, the tensors returned can be an arbitrary function of all the tf.Variables of this model, not just the local_variables; for example, this could return tensors measuring the total L2 norm of the model (which might have been updated by training).

This method may return arbitrarily shaped tensors, not just scalar metrics. For example, it could return the average feature vector or a count of how many times each feature exceed a certain magnitude.

Returns
A structure of tensors (as supported by tf.nest) to be aggregated across clients.