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 decentralizepy
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+decentralizepy is a framework for running distributed applications (particularly ML) on top of arbitrary topologies (decentralized, federated, parameter server).
+It was primarily conceived for assessing scientific ideas on several aspects of distributed learning (communication efficiency, privacy, data heterogeneity etc.).
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 Setting up decentralizepy
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