How to Use federated in a Sentence

federated

adjective
  • The model weights are hashed and put on a federated ledger at each training step.
    Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • One approach that may quell these fears is a model called federated blockchain governance.
    Gary Skuse, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Instead, anyone can launch a Mastodon server in their home and connect it to others to create a federated social network.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 July 2023
  • Don’t give free access just based on the fact that someone is authenticated with a username and password or some federated or social login.
    Ido Safruti, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • That might be good news for Mastodon, another Twitter wannabe and one of the few social networks to embrace a federated model.
    Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • What’s uncertain is how the federated social network, if it were adopted under Musk, will function in practice.
    WIRED, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That makes this a Gmail-proprietary feature, which is a problem for federated emails that are expected to work with a million different clients and providers.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Meeting people on a federated network of many separate servers with many separate databases is trickier.
    IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2011
  • Another fun quirk of federated media is that, even if you’re logged in to Mastodon on your own instance, you are not logged in on any of the others in a way that does not make sense if you’re not used to it.
    Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The result is that the leaders in federated learning are the existing large technology companies.
    Jeff Wong, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The breadth of expertise and knowledge presented in a collective, yet federated, model would better inform the consumers on the potential risk of their software.
    Vincent Danen, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • These systems tend to be decentralized, and if there is no way to do a scalable, federated search, analysts are tasked with looking for data in each individual location.
    Alex Lanstein, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Consider adopting federated or on-device models.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The momentum coincided with a broader wave of decentralization in tech, from the blockchain boom to federated networks like Mastodon and Bluesky.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • For one the experience is less immediately intuitive to a centralized platform due to its federated nature.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The three countries instead proposed a federated state of Palestine, which would have kept the territory as a single state but with Arab and Jewish cantons.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 21 May 2025
  • The company said its new technology, called federated learning of cohorts, will track people in cohorts and leaves individuals anonymous.
    Fortune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Fluid learning tackles long training times by introducing an infrastructure-free federated learning scheme.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Beutel said Flower plans to use the new venture funding to expand awareness of federated learning, grow the number of developers using Flower, and add staff.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Many businesses can find a balance by working within a federated model in which a core group of experts works at the center while project teams work within decentralized divisions to stay on top of day-to-day business demands.
    Arvind Prabhakar, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The summit featured dozens of educational sessions, including pre-recorded videos, live sessions, and empowerment for federated teams.
    Randy Bean, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Researchers hope to use a federated learning approach to train future crop-yield models, which would allow the training to update a global model while keeping different sources of data isolated from one another.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2023
  • By pooling their bitcoin holdings, communities can form a federated mint, operating on collective consensus.
    Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Organizations may choose to use a federated center of excellence (CoE) approach where a committee or team will lead automation efforts.
    Jakob Freund, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Also, the federated approach reduces the need for extensive data movement, enhances data governance and provides faster, real-time access to information.
    Rajiv Shesh, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
  • As a federated network, Mastodon let people set up their own servers, which functioned as independent but interconnected communities within the larger network.
    Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Choice, interoperability, and the chance to invent your own networking experience are what federated networks such the Diaspora pods are all about.
    IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2011
  • To govern this, Wasserman has built a federated model—a central team setting strategy and handling advanced applications, paired with resources embedded in each business segment.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Using an approach to data privacy called federated learning, Lilly or other companies using TuneLab won't see anyone else's data.
    Morgan Chittum,kevin Stankiewicz,jeff Marks, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Tech leaders are turning to privacy-preserving techniques such as federated learning, homomorphic encryption and zero-trust networking to safeguard both data and models.
    Anuj Tyagi, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025

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