Challenge: federated learning (FL) is widely studied in user-related natural language processing (NLP) but its performance is faded by confirmation bias.
Approach: They propose a decentralized learning paradigm that uses labeled data to rectify local models . they propose federated interactive distillation (FedID) to alleviate communication overhead .
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves the best results in homogeneous and heterogeneously federated scenarios.

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