Federated Learning (FL) is a powerful paradigm for training machine learning models across distributed data sources while preserving data locality.
ModelNet is a new image classification dataset constructed from embeddings of a pre-trained ResNet50 model, designed to simulate realistic FL settings by incorporating non-IID data distributions and client diversity.
ModelNet includes three client-specific variants based on different domain heterogeneities: homogeneous, heterogeneous, and random data settings.
The dataset aims to address the lack of domain heterogeneity and client-specific segregation in benchmarks, providing a practical benchmark for classical and graph-based FL research.