Instruction: Describe the significance of communication protocols in Federated Learning and how they affect model training.
Context: This question assesses the candidate's grasp on the critical nature of communication protocols in managing the transmission of updates between the server and clients, emphasizing their impact on privacy preservation and model convergence.
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The way I'd explain it in an interview is this: Communication protocols matter because federated learning is limited as much by network behavior as by model quality. They determine how clients send updates, how failures are handled, how bandwidth is...