Federated Learning XGBoost tutorial for UI

Verify the Python version

Ensure that you are using the same Python version as the admin. Using a different Python version might cause compatibility issues. To see Python versions compatible with different frameworks, see Frameworks and Python version compatibility.

Open a project

1. Use an existing project or create a new one. You must have at least admin permission.

2. Associate the Watson Machine Learning service with your project.

   1. In your project, click the Manage > Service & integrations.
   2. Click Associate service.
   3. Select your Watson Machine Learning instance from the list, and click Associate; or click New service if you do not have one to set up an instance.

   

Task 1a: Create the Federated learning experiment asset

1. In your project, click the Assets tab in your project.

2. Click New asset > Train models on distributed data to create the Federated learning experiment asset.

3. Type a Name for your experiment and optionally a description.

4. Verify the associated Watson Machine Learning instance under Select a machine learning instance. If you don't see a Watson Machine Learning instance associated, follow these steps:

   1. Click Associate a Machine Learning Service Instance.

   2. Select an existing instance and click Associate, or create a New service.

   3. Click Reload to see the associated service.

      

   4. Click Next.

Task 1b: Configure the experiment

1. On the Configure page, select a Hardware specification.

2. Under the Machine learning framework dropdown, select scikit-learn.

3. For the Model type, select XGBoost.

4. For the Fusion method, select XGBoost classification fusion.

   

5. Click Next.

Task 1c: Define the hyperparameters

1. Set the value for the Rounds field to 5.

2. Accept the default values for the rest of the fields.

   

3. Click Next.

Task 1d: Select remote training systems

1. Click Add new systems.

   

2. Type a name for your Remote Training System.

3. Under Allowed identities, select the user that will participate in the experiment, and then click Add. You can add as many allowed identities as participants in this Federated Experiment training instance. For this tutorial, choose only yourself.
   Any allowed identities must be a collaborator of the project and have at least Admin permission. Add additional systems by repeating this step for each remote party you intent to use.

4. When you are finished, click Add systems.

   

5. Return to the Select remote training systems page, verify that your system is selected, and then click Next.

   

Task 1e: Review the settings

1. Review your settings, and then click Create.

2. Watch the status. Your Federated Learning experiment status is Pending when it starts. When your experiment is ready for parties to connect, the status will change to Setup – Waiting for remote systems. This may take a few minutes.

3. Click View setup information to download the party configuration and the party connector script that you can run on the remote party.

4. Click the Download config icon beside each of the remote training systems that you created. Save the party connector script to a directory on your machine with the name:

   remote-test-system-configuration.py
   

   

5. Click Done.

Check your progress

The following image shows the experiment with status 'waiting for remote systems'.

Task 2a: Download the data sets and scripts

1. Create a new local directory, and put move the party connector script that you downloaded in Task 1e into the new directory.

2. Download the following files by right-clicking on the file name, and then click Save link as. Save it to the same directory as the party connector script.

   • Download the data handler adult_sklearn_data_handler.py

   • Download the log configuration file.

   • Download the Adult data set

3. Verify that you have the party connector script, the Adult data set, the data handler, and the log configuration file in the same directory. If you list the files in the directory, you should see these files:

   adult.csv
   adult_sklearn_data_handler.py
   remote-test-system-configuration.py
   log_config.yaml
   

Task 2b: Install Watson Machine Learning

• If you are using Windows or Linux, run pip install 'ibm_watsonx_ai[fl-rt23.1-py3.10]'.

• If you are using Mac OS with M-series CPU and Conda, download the installation script and then run ./install_fl_rt23.1_macos.sh <name for new conda environment>.

Task 2c: Edit and run the party connector script

Edit the party connector file, remote-test-systm-configuration.py, and make the following changes:

1. Add the following code as the second line of the python file.

   log_config_path = "log_config.yaml"
   

2. Provide your credentials: Paste the API key for the user defined in the remote training system. If you don't have an API key, go to the IBM Cloud API keys page, and click Create API key, fill out the fields, and click Create.

3. For the party_metadata field, provide the name, path, and info, which should be similar to the following JSON text.

   party_metadata = {
      wml_client.remote_training_systems.ConfigurationMetaNames.DATA_HANDLER: {
         "info": {"txt_file": "./adult.csv"},
         "name": "AdultSklearnDataHandler",
         "path": "./adult_sklearn_data_handler.py"
      }
   }
   

   where:

   • name: Class name defined for the data handler.
   • path: Path of where the data handler is located.
   • info: Create a key value pair for the file type of local data set, or the path of your data set.

4. Save the party connector script.

5. Run the party connector script using either python or python3 depending on what you have installed.

   python remote-test-system-configuration.py
   

From the UI you can monitor the status of your Federated Learning experiment. When all participating parties connect to the aggregator, the aggregator facilitates the local model training and global model update. Its status is Training. You can monitor the status of your Federated Learning experiment from the user interface. When training is complete, the party receives a Received STOP message on the party. Now, you can save the trained model and deploy it to a space.

Check your progress

The following image shows the completed experiment.

Task 3a: Save your model

1. In your completed Federated Learning experiment, click Save aggregate.
2. On the Save aggregated model to project screen, type a name for the model. and click Create.
3. When you see the notification that the model is created, click View in project. If you miss the notification, then click the project name to return to the assets tab, and click the model name to view it.

Task 3b: Promote the model to a space

1. In the Models section, click the model to view its details page.
2. Click Promote to deployment space .
3. Choose a Target space from the list, or create a new deployment space.

   1. Select Create a new deployment space.

   2. Type a name for the deployment space.

   3. Select your storage service.

   4. Select your machine learning service.

   5. Click Create.

   6. When the deployment space is created, close the window.

4. Select the Go to the model in the space after promoting it option.
5. Click Promote.

Task 3c: Create and view the online deployment

1. When the model displays inside the deployment space, click New deployment.
2. Select Online as the Deployment type.
3. Specify a name for the deployment.
4. Click Create.
5. Wait for the deployment status to change to Deployed, and then click the deployment name.
6. View the endpoints and code snippets to use this deployment in your application.

Check your progress

The following image shows the online deployment,

Next steps

Ready to create your own customized Federated Experiment? See the high level steps in Creating your Federated Learning experiment.

Parent topic: Federated Learning tutorial and samples