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   "text": "Privacy preserving frameworks such as federated learning do not fully solve centralization, because they typically still depend on a central client to collect and distribute model information, which produces high communication loads and reintroduces centralized vulnerabilities.",
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   "text": "Decentralized Federated Learning lets every client reach the global minimum with zero performance gap and at the same convergence rate as centralized methods, but only when the loss function is smooth and strongly convex.",
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