📡 Federated Learning – CS-E4740 (Spring 2025, Aalto University)

Welcome to the GitHub repository for CS-E4740 - Federated Learning, a master-level course offered every spring at Aalto University. This course introduces the foundations and applications of Federated Learning (FL)—a privacy-preserving and decentralized approach to training machine learning models on distributed data.

📘 Lecture notes are published as a Springer textbook:
Alexander Jung, Federated Learning: From Theory to Practice (Springer, 2025), arxiv preprint

🧠 What You Will Learn

Formulate federated learning tasks as distributed optimization problems
Design scalable and privacy-aware FL algorithms
Understand the role of non-IID data, secure aggregation, and trustworthy AI
Apply FL to real-world applications like weather prediction, healthcare, and recommendation systems

📖 Course Materials

✅ Lecture Slides (based on the Springer textbook)
📓 Jupyter Notebooks and Python demos
🧪 Assignments and exercises
🧵 Real-world datasets for hands-on projects
📚 Additional readings on topics like differential privacy, robustness, and personalization

🎓 Enrollment Options

🏫 Finnish University Students

Enroll via Sisu. Contact your study coordinator for official registration.

🌐 Open Access Learners

Anyone can follow the course as open educational content. Subscribe to the course mailing list for updates.

🚀 Course Schedule (Spring 2026)

📅 TBA

🔗 Related Resources

📙 Machine Learning: The Basics – Introductory ML textbook by Alexander Jung
🌐 My Personal Site
📺 YouTube Lectures

🧭 How to Contribute or Follow

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🐛 Open issues for feedback or suggestions
🧠 Want to help? Fork the repo and suggest improvements or new examples

🏷 Keywords

federated-learning distributed-learning privacy-preserving-ml
non-IID secure-aggregation optimization trustworthy-ai
springer-textbook open-courseware decentralized-ai

📜 License

All content is released under the MIT License unless otherwise specified. Lecture slides and textbook excerpts follow publisher usage policy.

FederatedLearning

Install / Use

README