flwr-nightly 1.6.0.dev20231026__tar.gz → 1.6.0.dev20231101__tar.gz

{flwr_nightly-1.6.0.dev20231026 → flwr_nightly-1.6.0.dev20231101}/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.1
 Name: flwr-nightly
-Version: 1.6.0.dev20231026
+Version: 1.6.0.dev20231101
 Summary: Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Framework
 Home-page: https://flower.dev
 License: Apache-2.0
@@ -71,22 +71,21 @@ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
 Flower (`flwr`) is a framework for building federated learning systems. The
 design of Flower is based on a few guiding principles:
 
-* **Customizable**: Federated learning systems vary wildly from one use case to
+- **Customizable**: Federated learning systems vary wildly from one use case to
   another. Flower allows for a wide range of different configurations depending
   on the needs of each individual use case.
 
-* **Extendable**: Flower originated from a research project at the University of
+- **Extendable**: Flower originated from a research project at the University of
   Oxford, so it was built with AI research in mind. Many components can be
   extended and overridden to build new state-of-the-art systems.
 
-* **Framework-agnostic**: Different machine learning frameworks have different
+- **Framework-agnostic**: Different machine learning frameworks have different
   strengths. Flower can be used with any machine learning framework, for
   example, [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org),
-  [TensorFlow](https://tensorflow.org), [Hugging Face Transformers](https://huggingface.co/), [PyTorch Lightning](https://pytorchlightning.ai/), [MXNet](https://mxnet.apache.org/), [scikit-learn](https://scikit-learn.org/), [JAX](https://jax.readthedocs.io/), [TFLite](https://tensorflow.org/lite/), [fastai](https://www.fast.ai/), [Pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org/
-) for federated analytics, or even raw [NumPy](https://numpy.org/)
+  [TensorFlow](https://tensorflow.org), [Hugging Face Transformers](https://huggingface.co/), [PyTorch Lightning](https://pytorchlightning.ai/), [MXNet](https://mxnet.apache.org/), [scikit-learn](https://scikit-learn.org/), [JAX](https://jax.readthedocs.io/), [TFLite](https://tensorflow.org/lite/), [fastai](https://www.fast.ai/), [Pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org/) for federated analytics, or even raw [NumPy](https://numpy.org/)
   for users who enjoy computing gradients by hand.
 
-* **Understandable**: Flower is written with maintainability in mind. The
+- **Understandable**: Flower is written with maintainability in mind. The
   community is encouraged to both read and contribute to the codebase.
 
 Meet the Flower community on [flower.dev](https://flower.dev)!
@@ -106,11 +105,11 @@ Flower's goal is to make federated learning accessible to everyone. This series
 2. **Using Strategies in Federated Learning**
 
    [![Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-use-a-federated-learning-strategy-pytorch.ipynb) (or open the [Jupyter Notebook](https://github.com/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-use-a-federated-learning-strategy-pytorch.ipynb))
-   
+
 3. **Building Strategies for Federated Learning**
 
    [![Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-series-use-a-federated-learning-strategy-pytorch.ipynb) (or open the [Jupyter Notebook](https://github.com/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-series-use-a-federated-learning-strategy-pytorch.ipynb))
-   
+
 4. **Custom Clients for Federated Learning**
 
    [![Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-series-customize-the-client-pytorch.ipynb) (or open the [Jupyter Notebook](https://github.com/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-series-customize-the-client-pytorch.ipynb))
@@ -121,39 +120,39 @@ Stay tuned, more tutorials are coming soon. Topics include **Privacy and Securit
 
 [![Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/adap/flower/blob/main/examples/flower-in-30-minutes/tutorial.ipynb) (or open the [Jupyter Notebook](https://github.com/adap/flower/blob/main/examples/flower-in-30-minutes/tutorial.ipynb))
 
-
 ## Documentation
 
 [Flower Docs](https://flower.dev/docs):
-* [Installation](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/how-to-install-flower.html)
-* [Quickstart (TensorFlow)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-tensorflow.html)
-* [Quickstart (PyTorch)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pytorch.html)
-* [Quickstart (Hugging Face)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-huggingface.html)
-* [Quickstart (PyTorch Lightning [code example])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pytorch-lightning.html)
-* [Quickstart (MXNet)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/example-mxnet-walk-through.html)
-* [Quickstart (Pandas)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pandas.html)
-* [Quickstart (fastai)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-fastai.html)
-* [Quickstart (JAX)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-jax.html)
-* [Quickstart (scikit-learn)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-scikitlearn.html)
-* [Quickstart (Android [TFLite])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-android.html)
-* [Quickstart (iOS [CoreML])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-ios.html)
+
+- [Installation](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/how-to-install-flower.html)
+- [Quickstart (TensorFlow)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-tensorflow.html)
+- [Quickstart (PyTorch)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pytorch.html)
+- [Quickstart (Hugging Face)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-huggingface.html)
+- [Quickstart (PyTorch Lightning [code example])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pytorch-lightning.html)
+- [Quickstart (MXNet)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/example-mxnet-walk-through.html)
+- [Quickstart (Pandas)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pandas.html)
+- [Quickstart (fastai)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-fastai.html)
+- [Quickstart (JAX)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-jax.html)
+- [Quickstart (scikit-learn)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-scikitlearn.html)
+- [Quickstart (Android [TFLite])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-android.html)
+- [Quickstart (iOS [CoreML])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-ios.html)
 
 ## Flower Baselines
 
 Flower Baselines is a collection of community-contributed experiments that reproduce the experiments performed in popular federated learning publications. Researchers can build on Flower Baselines to quickly evaluate new ideas:
 
-* [FedAvg](https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05629):
-  * [MNIST](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/fedavg_mnist)
-* [FedProx](https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06127):
-  * [MNIST](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/fedprox/)
-* [FedBN: Federated Learning on non-IID Features via Local Batch Normalization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07623):
-  * [Convergence Rate](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/fedbn/convergence_rate)
-* [Adaptive Federated Optimization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00295):
-  * [CIFAR-10/100](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/adaptive_federated_optimization)
+- [FedAvg](https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05629):
+  - [MNIST](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/fedavg_mnist)
+- [FedProx](https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06127):
+  - [MNIST](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/fedprox/)
+- [FedBN: Federated Learning on non-IID Features via Local Batch Normalization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07623):
+  - [Convergence Rate](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/fedbn/convergence_rate)
+- [Adaptive Federated Optimization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00295):
+  - [CIFAR-10/100](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/adaptive_federated_optimization)
 
-Check the Flower documentation to learn more: [Using Baselines](https://flower.dev/docs/baselines/using-baselines.html)
+Check the Flower documentation to learn more: [Using Baselines](https://flower.dev/docs/baselines/how-to-use-baselines.html)
 
-The Flower community loves contributions! Make your work more visible and enable others to build on it by contributing it as a baseline: [Contributing Baselines](https://flower.dev/docs/baselines/contributing-baselines.html)
+The Flower community loves contributions! Make your work more visible and enable others to build on it by contributing it as a baseline: [Contributing Baselines](https://flower.dev/docs/baselines/how-to-contribute-baselines.html)
 
 ## Flower Usage Examples
 
@@ -161,26 +160,26 @@ Several code examples show different usage scenarios of Flower (in combination w
 
 Quickstart examples:
 
-* [Quickstart (TensorFlow)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-tensorflow)
-* [Quickstart (PyTorch)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pytorch)
-* [Quickstart (Hugging Face)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-huggingface)
-* [Quickstart (PyTorch Lightning)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pytorch-lightning)
-* [Quickstart (fastai)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-fastai)
-* [Quickstart (Pandas)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pandas)
-* [Quickstart (MXNet)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-mxnet)
-* [Quickstart (JAX)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-jax)
-* [Quickstart (scikit-learn)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/sklearn-logreg-mnist)
-* [Quickstart (Android [TFLite])](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/android)
-* [Quickstart (iOS [CoreML])](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/ios)
+- [Quickstart (TensorFlow)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-tensorflow)
+- [Quickstart (PyTorch)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pytorch)
+- [Quickstart (Hugging Face)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-huggingface)
+- [Quickstart (PyTorch Lightning)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pytorch-lightning)
+- [Quickstart (fastai)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-fastai)
+- [Quickstart (Pandas)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pandas)
+- [Quickstart (MXNet)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-mxnet)
+- [Quickstart (JAX)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-jax)
+- [Quickstart (scikit-learn)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/sklearn-logreg-mnist)
+- [Quickstart (Android [TFLite])](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/android)
+- [Quickstart (iOS [CoreML])](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/ios)
 
 Other [examples](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples):
 
-* [Raspberry Pi & Nvidia Jetson Tutorial](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/embedded-devices)
-* [PyTorch: From Centralized to Federated](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/pytorch-from-centralized-to-federated)
-* [MXNet: From Centralized to Federated](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/mxnet-from-centralized-to-federated)
-* [Advanced Flower with TensorFlow/Keras](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/advanced-tensorflow)
-* [Advanced Flower with PyTorch](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/advanced-pytorch)
-* Single-Machine Simulation of Federated Learning Systems ([PyTorch](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/simulation_pytorch)) ([Tensorflow](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/simulation_tensorflow))
+- [Raspberry Pi & Nvidia Jetson Tutorial](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/embedded-devices)
+- [PyTorch: From Centralized to Federated](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/pytorch-from-centralized-to-federated)
+- [MXNet: From Centralized to Federated](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/mxnet-from-centralized-to-federated)
+- [Advanced Flower with TensorFlow/Keras](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/advanced-tensorflow)
+- [Advanced Flower with PyTorch](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/advanced-pytorch)
+- Single-Machine Simulation of Federated Learning Systems ([PyTorch](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/simulation_pytorch)) ([Tensorflow](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/simulation_tensorflow))
 
 ## Community
 
@@ -192,12 +191,12 @@ Flower is built by a wonderful community of researchers and engineers. [Join Sla
 
 ## Citation
 
-If you publish work that uses Flower, please cite Flower as follows: 
+If you publish work that uses Flower, please cite Flower as follows:
 
 ```bibtex
 @article{beutel2020flower,
   title={Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Research Framework},
-  author={Beutel, Daniel J and Topal, Taner and Mathur, Akhil and Qiu, Xinchi and Fernandez-Marques, Javier and Gao, Yan and Sani, Lorenzo and Kwing, Hei Li and Parcollet, Titouan and Gusmão, Pedro PB de and Lane, Nicholas D}, 
+  author={Beutel, Daniel J and Topal, Taner and Mathur, Akhil and Qiu, Xinchi and Fernandez-Marques, Javier and Gao, Yan and Sani, Lorenzo and Kwing, Hei Li and Parcollet, Titouan and Gusmão, Pedro PB de and Lane, Nicholas D},
   journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14390},
   year={2020}
 }

{flwr_nightly-1.6.0.dev20231026 → flwr_nightly-1.6.0.dev20231101}/README.md

@@ -23,22 +23,21 @@
 Flower (`flwr`) is a framework for building federated learning systems. The
 design of Flower is based on a few guiding principles:
 
-* **Customizable**: Federated learning systems vary wildly from one use case to
+- **Customizable**: Federated learning systems vary wildly from one use case to
   another. Flower allows for a wide range of different configurations depending
   on the needs of each individual use case.
 
-* **Extendable**: Flower originated from a research project at the University of
+- **Extendable**: Flower originated from a research project at the University of
   Oxford, so it was built with AI research in mind. Many components can be
   extended and overridden to build new state-of-the-art systems.
 
-* **Framework-agnostic**: Different machine learning frameworks have different
+- **Framework-agnostic**: Different machine learning frameworks have different
   strengths. Flower can be used with any machine learning framework, for
   example, [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org),
-  [TensorFlow](https://tensorflow.org), [Hugging Face Transformers](https://huggingface.co/), [PyTorch Lightning](https://pytorchlightning.ai/), [MXNet](https://mxnet.apache.org/), [scikit-learn](https://scikit-learn.org/), [JAX](https://jax.readthedocs.io/), [TFLite](https://tensorflow.org/lite/), [fastai](https://www.fast.ai/), [Pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org/
-) for federated analytics, or even raw [NumPy](https://numpy.org/)
+  [TensorFlow](https://tensorflow.org), [Hugging Face Transformers](https://huggingface.co/), [PyTorch Lightning](https://pytorchlightning.ai/), [MXNet](https://mxnet.apache.org/), [scikit-learn](https://scikit-learn.org/), [JAX](https://jax.readthedocs.io/), [TFLite](https://tensorflow.org/lite/), [fastai](https://www.fast.ai/), [Pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org/) for federated analytics, or even raw [NumPy](https://numpy.org/)
   for users who enjoy computing gradients by hand.
 
-* **Understandable**: Flower is written with maintainability in mind. The
+- **Understandable**: Flower is written with maintainability in mind. The
   community is encouraged to both read and contribute to the codebase.
 
 Meet the Flower community on [flower.dev](https://flower.dev)!
@@ -58,11 +57,11 @@ Flower's goal is to make federated learning accessible to everyone. This series
 2. **Using Strategies in Federated Learning**
 
    [![Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-use-a-federated-learning-strategy-pytorch.ipynb) (or open the [Jupyter Notebook](https://github.com/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-use-a-federated-learning-strategy-pytorch.ipynb))
-   
+
 3. **Building Strategies for Federated Learning**
 
    [![Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-series-use-a-federated-learning-strategy-pytorch.ipynb) (or open the [Jupyter Notebook](https://github.com/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-series-use-a-federated-learning-strategy-pytorch.ipynb))
-   
+
 4. **Custom Clients for Federated Learning**
 
    [![Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-series-customize-the-client-pytorch.ipynb) (or open the [Jupyter Notebook](https://github.com/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-series-customize-the-client-pytorch.ipynb))
@@ -73,39 +72,39 @@ Stay tuned, more tutorials are coming soon. Topics include **Privacy and Securit
 
 [![Open in Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/adap/flower/blob/main/examples/flower-in-30-minutes/tutorial.ipynb) (or open the [Jupyter Notebook](https://github.com/adap/flower/blob/main/examples/flower-in-30-minutes/tutorial.ipynb))
 
-
 ## Documentation
 
 [Flower Docs](https://flower.dev/docs):
-* [Installation](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/how-to-install-flower.html)
-* [Quickstart (TensorFlow)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-tensorflow.html)
-* [Quickstart (PyTorch)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pytorch.html)
-* [Quickstart (Hugging Face)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-huggingface.html)
-* [Quickstart (PyTorch Lightning [code example])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pytorch-lightning.html)
-* [Quickstart (MXNet)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/example-mxnet-walk-through.html)
-* [Quickstart (Pandas)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pandas.html)
-* [Quickstart (fastai)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-fastai.html)
-* [Quickstart (JAX)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-jax.html)
-* [Quickstart (scikit-learn)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-scikitlearn.html)
-* [Quickstart (Android [TFLite])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-android.html)
-* [Quickstart (iOS [CoreML])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-ios.html)
+
+- [Installation](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/how-to-install-flower.html)
+- [Quickstart (TensorFlow)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-tensorflow.html)
+- [Quickstart (PyTorch)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pytorch.html)
+- [Quickstart (Hugging Face)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-huggingface.html)
+- [Quickstart (PyTorch Lightning [code example])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pytorch-lightning.html)
+- [Quickstart (MXNet)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/example-mxnet-walk-through.html)
+- [Quickstart (Pandas)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-pandas.html)
+- [Quickstart (fastai)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-fastai.html)
+- [Quickstart (JAX)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-jax.html)
+- [Quickstart (scikit-learn)](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-scikitlearn.html)
+- [Quickstart (Android [TFLite])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-android.html)
+- [Quickstart (iOS [CoreML])](https://flower.dev/docs/framework/tutorial-quickstart-ios.html)
 
 ## Flower Baselines
 
 Flower Baselines is a collection of community-contributed experiments that reproduce the experiments performed in popular federated learning publications. Researchers can build on Flower Baselines to quickly evaluate new ideas:
 
-* [FedAvg](https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05629):
-  * [MNIST](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/fedavg_mnist)
-* [FedProx](https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06127):
-  * [MNIST](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/fedprox/)
-* [FedBN: Federated Learning on non-IID Features via Local Batch Normalization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07623):
-  * [Convergence Rate](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/fedbn/convergence_rate)
-* [Adaptive Federated Optimization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00295):
-  * [CIFAR-10/100](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/adaptive_federated_optimization)
+- [FedAvg](https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05629):
+  - [MNIST](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/fedavg_mnist)
+- [FedProx](https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06127):
+  - [MNIST](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/fedprox/)
+- [FedBN: Federated Learning on non-IID Features via Local Batch Normalization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07623):
+  - [Convergence Rate](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/fedbn/convergence_rate)
+- [Adaptive Federated Optimization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00295):
+  - [CIFAR-10/100](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/flwr_baselines/flwr_baselines/publications/adaptive_federated_optimization)
 
-Check the Flower documentation to learn more: [Using Baselines](https://flower.dev/docs/baselines/using-baselines.html)
+Check the Flower documentation to learn more: [Using Baselines](https://flower.dev/docs/baselines/how-to-use-baselines.html)
 
-The Flower community loves contributions! Make your work more visible and enable others to build on it by contributing it as a baseline: [Contributing Baselines](https://flower.dev/docs/baselines/contributing-baselines.html)
+The Flower community loves contributions! Make your work more visible and enable others to build on it by contributing it as a baseline: [Contributing Baselines](https://flower.dev/docs/baselines/how-to-contribute-baselines.html)
 
 ## Flower Usage Examples
 
@@ -113,26 +112,26 @@ Several code examples show different usage scenarios of Flower (in combination w
 
 Quickstart examples:
 
-* [Quickstart (TensorFlow)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-tensorflow)
-* [Quickstart (PyTorch)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pytorch)
-* [Quickstart (Hugging Face)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-huggingface)
-* [Quickstart (PyTorch Lightning)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pytorch-lightning)
-* [Quickstart (fastai)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-fastai)
-* [Quickstart (Pandas)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pandas)
-* [Quickstart (MXNet)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-mxnet)
-* [Quickstart (JAX)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-jax)
-* [Quickstart (scikit-learn)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/sklearn-logreg-mnist)
-* [Quickstart (Android [TFLite])](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/android)
-* [Quickstart (iOS [CoreML])](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/ios)
+- [Quickstart (TensorFlow)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-tensorflow)
+- [Quickstart (PyTorch)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pytorch)
+- [Quickstart (Hugging Face)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-huggingface)
+- [Quickstart (PyTorch Lightning)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pytorch-lightning)
+- [Quickstart (fastai)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-fastai)
+- [Quickstart (Pandas)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-pandas)
+- [Quickstart (MXNet)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-mxnet)
+- [Quickstart (JAX)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/quickstart-jax)
+- [Quickstart (scikit-learn)](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/sklearn-logreg-mnist)
+- [Quickstart (Android [TFLite])](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/android)
+- [Quickstart (iOS [CoreML])](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/ios)
 
 Other [examples](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples):
 
-* [Raspberry Pi & Nvidia Jetson Tutorial](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/embedded-devices)
-* [PyTorch: From Centralized to Federated](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/pytorch-from-centralized-to-federated)
-* [MXNet: From Centralized to Federated](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/mxnet-from-centralized-to-federated)
-* [Advanced Flower with TensorFlow/Keras](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/advanced-tensorflow)
-* [Advanced Flower with PyTorch](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/advanced-pytorch)
-* Single-Machine Simulation of Federated Learning Systems ([PyTorch](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/simulation_pytorch)) ([Tensorflow](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/simulation_tensorflow))
+- [Raspberry Pi & Nvidia Jetson Tutorial](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/embedded-devices)
+- [PyTorch: From Centralized to Federated](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/pytorch-from-centralized-to-federated)
+- [MXNet: From Centralized to Federated](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/mxnet-from-centralized-to-federated)
+- [Advanced Flower with TensorFlow/Keras](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/advanced-tensorflow)
+- [Advanced Flower with PyTorch](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/advanced-pytorch)
+- Single-Machine Simulation of Federated Learning Systems ([PyTorch](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/simulation_pytorch)) ([Tensorflow](https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/examples/simulation_tensorflow))
 
 ## Community
 
@@ -144,12 +143,12 @@ Flower is built by a wonderful community of researchers and engineers. [Join Sla
 
 ## Citation
 
-If you publish work that uses Flower, please cite Flower as follows: 
+If you publish work that uses Flower, please cite Flower as follows:
 
 ```bibtex
 @article{beutel2020flower,
   title={Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Research Framework},
-  author={Beutel, Daniel J and Topal, Taner and Mathur, Akhil and Qiu, Xinchi and Fernandez-Marques, Javier and Gao, Yan and Sani, Lorenzo and Kwing, Hei Li and Parcollet, Titouan and Gusmão, Pedro PB de and Lane, Nicholas D}, 
+  author={Beutel, Daniel J and Topal, Taner and Mathur, Akhil and Qiu, Xinchi and Fernandez-Marques, Javier and Gao, Yan and Sani, Lorenzo and Kwing, Hei Li and Parcollet, Titouan and Gusmão, Pedro PB de and Lane, Nicholas D},
   journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14390},
   year={2020}
 }

{flwr_nightly-1.6.0.dev20231026 → flwr_nightly-1.6.0.dev20231101}/pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "flwr-nightly"
-version = "1.6.0-dev20231026"
+version = "1.6.0-dev20231101"
 description = "Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Framework"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 authors = ["The Flower Authors <hello@flower.dev>"]

{flwr_nightly-1.6.0.dev20231026 → flwr_nightly-1.6.0.dev20231101}/src/py/flwr/client/app.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import sys
 import time
 import warnings
 from logging import INFO
-from typing import Optional, Union
+from typing import Callable, ContextManager, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 from flwr.client.client import Client
 from flwr.client.typing import ClientFn
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ from flwr.common.constant import (
     TRANSPORT_TYPES,
 )
 from flwr.common.logger import log
+from flwr.proto.task_pb2 import TaskIns, TaskRes
 
 from .grpc_client.connection import grpc_connection
 from .grpc_rere_client.connection import grpc_request_response
@@ -134,44 +135,15 @@ def start_client(
 
         client_fn = single_client_factory
 
-    # Parse IP address
-    parsed_address = parse_address(server_address)
-    if not parsed_address:
-        sys.exit(f"Server address ({server_address}) cannot be parsed.")
-    host, port, is_v6 = parsed_address
-    address = f"[{host}]:{port}" if is_v6 else f"{host}:{port}"
-
-    # Set the default transport layer
-    if transport is None:
-        transport = TRANSPORT_TYPE_GRPC_BIDI
-
-    # Use either gRPC bidirectional streaming or REST request/response
-    if transport == TRANSPORT_TYPE_REST:
-        try:
-            from .rest_client.connection import http_request_response
-        except ModuleNotFoundError:
-            sys.exit(MISSING_EXTRA_REST)
-        if server_address[:4] != "http":
-            sys.exit(
-                "When using the REST API, please provide `https://` or "
-                "`http://` before the server address (e.g. `http://127.0.0.1:8080`)"
-            )
-        connection = http_request_response
-    elif transport == TRANSPORT_TYPE_GRPC_RERE:
-        connection = grpc_request_response
-    elif transport == TRANSPORT_TYPE_GRPC_BIDI:
-        connection = grpc_connection
-    else:
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"Unknown transport type: {transport} (possible: {TRANSPORT_TYPES})"
-        )
+    # Initialize connection context manager
+    connection, address = _init_connection(transport, server_address)
 
     while True:
         sleep_duration: int = 0
         with connection(
             address,
-            max_message_length=grpc_max_message_length,
-            root_certificates=root_certificates,
+            grpc_max_message_length,
+            root_certificates,
         ) as conn:
             receive, send, create_node, delete_node = conn
 
@@ -285,3 +257,54 @@ def start_numpy_client(
         root_certificates=root_certificates,
         transport=transport,
     )
+
+
+def _init_connection(
+    transport: Optional[str], server_address: str
+) -> Tuple[
+    Callable[
+        [str, int, Union[bytes, str, None]],
+        ContextManager[
+            Tuple[
+                Callable[[], Optional[TaskIns]],
+                Callable[[TaskRes], None],
+                Optional[Callable[[], None]],
+                Optional[Callable[[], None]],
+            ]
+        ],
+    ],
+    str,
+]:
+    # Parse IP address
+    parsed_address = parse_address(server_address)
+    if not parsed_address:
+        sys.exit(f"Server address ({server_address}) cannot be parsed.")
+    host, port, is_v6 = parsed_address
+    address = f"[{host}]:{port}" if is_v6 else f"{host}:{port}"
+
+    # Set the default transport layer
+    if transport is None:
+        transport = TRANSPORT_TYPE_GRPC_BIDI
+
+    # Use either gRPC bidirectional streaming or REST request/response
+    if transport == TRANSPORT_TYPE_REST:
+        try:
+            from .rest_client.connection import http_request_response
+        except ModuleNotFoundError:
+            sys.exit(MISSING_EXTRA_REST)
+        if server_address[:4] != "http":
+            sys.exit(
+                "When using the REST API, please provide `https://` or "
+                "`http://` before the server address (e.g. `http://127.0.0.1:8080`)"
+            )
+        connection = http_request_response
+    elif transport == TRANSPORT_TYPE_GRPC_RERE:
+        connection = grpc_request_response
+    elif transport == TRANSPORT_TYPE_GRPC_BIDI:
+        connection = grpc_connection
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Unknown transport type: {transport} (possible: {TRANSPORT_TYPES})"
+        )
+
+    return connection, address