Source code for flwr.server.strategy.fedmedian

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"""Federated Median (FedMedian) [Yin et al., 2018] strategy.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/1803.01498v1.pdf
"""


from logging import WARNING
from typing import Optional, Union

from flwr.common import (
    FitRes,
    Parameters,
    Scalar,
    ndarrays_to_parameters,
    parameters_to_ndarrays,
)
from flwr.common.logger import log
from flwr.server.client_proxy import ClientProxy

from .aggregate import aggregate_median
from .fedavg import FedAvg




class FedMedian(FedAvg):
    """Configurable FedMedian strategy implementation."""

    def __repr__(self) -> str:
        """Compute a string representation of the strategy."""
        rep = f"FedMedian(accept_failures={self.accept_failures})"
        return rep



    def aggregate_fit(
        self,
        server_round: int,
        results: list[tuple[ClientProxy, FitRes]],
        failures: list[Union[tuple[ClientProxy, FitRes], BaseException]],
    ) -> tuple[Optional[Parameters], dict[str, Scalar]]:
        """Aggregate fit results using median."""
        if not results:
            return None, {}
        # Do not aggregate if there are failures and failures are not accepted
        if not self.accept_failures and failures:
            return None, {}

        # Convert results
        weights_results = [
            (parameters_to_ndarrays(fit_res.parameters), fit_res.num_examples)
            for _, fit_res in results
        ]
        parameters_aggregated = ndarrays_to_parameters(
            aggregate_median(weights_results)
        )

        # Aggregate custom metrics if aggregation fn was provided
        metrics_aggregated = {}
        if self.fit_metrics_aggregation_fn:
            fit_metrics = [(res.num_examples, res.metrics) for _, res in results]
            metrics_aggregated = self.fit_metrics_aggregation_fn(fit_metrics)
        elif server_round == 1:  # Only log this warning once
            log(WARNING, "No fit_metrics_aggregation_fn provided")

        return parameters_aggregated, metrics_aggregated