FATE-LLM

FATE-LLM is a framework to support federated learning for large language models(LLMs) and small language models(SLMs).

Design Principle

• Federated learning for large language models(LLMs) and small language models(SLMs).
• Promote training efficiency of federated LLMs using Parameter-Efficient methods.
• Protect the IP of LLMs using FedIPR.
• Protect data privacy during training and inference through privacy preserving mechanisms.

Standalone deployment

• To deploy FATE-LLM v2.2.0 or higher version, three ways are provided, please refer deploy tutorial for more details:
  • deploy with FATE only from pypi then using Launcher to run tasks
  • deploy with FATE、FATE-Flow、FATE-Client from pypi, user can run tasks with Pipeline
• To deploy lower versions: please refer to FATE-Standalone deployment.
  • To deploy FATE-LLM v2.0.* - FATE-LLM v2.1.*, deploy FATE-Standalone with version >= 2.1, then make a new directory {fate_install}/fate_llm and clone the code into it, install the python requirements, and add {fate_install}/fate_llm/python to PYTHONPATH
  • To deploy FATE-LLM v1.x, deploy FATE-Standalone with 1.11.3 <= version < 2.0, then copy directory python/fate_llm to {fate_install}/fate/python/fate_llm

Cluster deployment

Use FATE-LLM deployment packages to deploy, refer to FATE-Cluster deployment for more deployment details.

Quick Start

• Federated ChatGLM3-6B Training
• Builtin Models In PELLM
• Offsite Tuning: Transfer Learning without Full Model
• FedKSeed: Federated Full-Parameter Tuning of Billion-Sized Language Models with Communication Cost under 18 Kilobytes
• InferDPT: Privacy-preserving Inference for Black-box Large Language Models
• FedMKT: Federated Mutual Knowledge Transfer for Large and Small Language Models
• FedCoT: Federated Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Large Language Models
• FDKT: Federated Domain-Specific Knowledge Transfer on Large Language Models Using Synthetic Data

FATE-LLM Evaluate

• Python SDK & CLI Usage Guide

Citation

If you publish work that uses FATE-LLM, please cite FATE-LLM as follows:

@article{fan2023fate,
  title={Fate-llm: A industrial grade federated learning framework for large language models},
  author={Fan, Tao and Kang, Yan and Ma, Guoqiang and Chen, Weijing and Wei, Wenbin and Fan, Lixin and Yang, Qiang},
  journal={Symposium on Advances and Open Problems in Large Language Models (LLM@IJCAI'23)},
  year={2023}
}