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_toc.yml

 - file: README
-- file: 01-federated-averaging
+  title: Welcome
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+
+- part: Federated Learning
+  chapters:
+  - file: federated_learning/introduction.md
+
+  - file: federated_learning/FedAvg_FedProx_MNISt_iid_and_nidd.ipynb
+    title: FedAVG and FedProx
+
+  - file: federated_learning/federated_mcvae.ipynb
+    title: Federated VAEs
+
+- part: Heterogeneous Data
+  chapters:
+  - file: heterogeneous_data/introduction.md
+  - file: heterogeneous_data/multivariate_models_v1_7.ipynb
+    title: "Example: Latent analysis"
+
+# - part: federated Learning
+# chapters:
+# - file: federated_learning/introduction.md
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01-federated-averaging.ipynb → federated_learning/federated_mcvae.ipynb

 {
- "cells": [
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "source": [
-    "# Federated Aveaging"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": []
-  }
- ],
  "metadata": {
-  "kernelspec": {
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-   "language": "python",
-   "name": "python3"
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    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.8.6"
+   "version": "3.7.8-final"
+  },
+  "orig_nbformat": 2,
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "name": "python3",
+   "display_name": "Python 3",
+   "language": "python"
   }
  },
  "nbformat": 4,
- "nbformat_minor": 4
-}
+ "nbformat_minor": 2,
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "source": [
+    "# Example: Federated learning using variational autoencoders"
+   ],
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {}
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 4,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import torch\n",
+    "from copy import deepcopy"
+   ]
+  }
+ ]
+}
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federated_learning/introduction.md

+# Introduction
+Introduction to federated learning...
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heterogeneous_data/introduction.md

+# Introduction to heterogeneous data
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