v2 of Disco, November 2022

Main new features

• Byzantine-robust training for federated learning
• Fully P2P communication for decentralized training
• Task Creation Form - Bring new ML tasks to Disco by simply filling a web form: no programming knowledge required
• More clear split of the Disco projects into discojs, web-client, cli and server
• Disco.js available as two independent NPM packages:
  • @epfml/discojs running in the browser as native JS
  • @epfml/discojs-node running on Node.js
• Web Client: Lots of UI/UX improvements
• CLI: Improved CLI for running experiments without any browser or UI. Self-contained example here
• Development & Documentation
  • Development support for Apple Silicon and Windows (in addition to Linux and Mac)
  • Much improved documentation, both for task contributors and for developers
• Miscellaneous
  • The GitHub repository's download size was reduced from 186MiB down to 3.51MiB!