In CACM. A kind of crowd sourcing of training.
Google Tests New Approach to Training Machine Learning Models in eWeek
Google is testing a new collaborative machine-learning training method in which training data is diffused across millions of individual mobile devices instead of housed in datasets distributed across servers in the cloud. Google says machine-learning models can be trained from user interaction with their Android devices using the Federated Learning strategy.
"Federated Learning enables mobile phones to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping all the training data on [the] device," say Google's Daniel Ramage and Brendan McMahan. They note this decouples "the ability to do machine learning from the need to store the data in the cloud."