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Think Locally, Act Globally: Federated Learning with Local and GlobalRepresentations

Think Locally, Act Globally: How Phones Teach Smarter Models Without Sharing Data

Imagine your phone helping a bigger brain learn, but your private info never leaves device.
A new approach asks each device to make small, simple summaries of its data, and only those summaries are shared.
That means the big model can be much smaller, it learns from many phones without needing all the raw stuff, and your privacy stays better guarded.
Local models run on device and send local summaries so less connection time, less energy used — basically less data moving around.
The way it works also makes the system learn fairer clues, hiding things like age or gender when needed, so predictions are kinder across people.
One real test was mood prediction from phones where privacy matters most, and it kept good results while sending much less.
New phones with different users can join easily, they adapt fast and still keep things private.
It’s a simple idea that could let many apps learn together, without you losing control of your data.

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