# FedDF (Baseline Suggestion)

**URL:** <https://discuss.flower.ai/t/feddf-baseline-suggestion/586>\
**Category:** Flower Baselines\
**Tags:** baseline\
**Created:** [January 17, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/feddf-baseline-suggestion/586 "2025-01-17T15:24:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![williamlm](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discuss.flower.ai/williamlm/32/162_2.png) [@williamlm](https://discuss.flower.ai/u/williamlm)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/feddf-baseline-suggestion/586/1 "2025-01-17T15:24:17Z")

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# FedDF

- **Title:** Ensemble Distillation for Robust Model Fusion in Federated Learning
- **Venue:** NeurIPS 2020
- **Link to paper:** [Ensemble Distillation for Robust Model Fusion in Federated Learning](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/hash/18df51b97ccd68128e994804f3eccc87-Abstract.html)

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**Author:** ![theolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@theolo](https://discuss.flower.ai/u/theolo)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/feddf-baseline-suggestion/586/2 "2025-09-02T11:55:35Z")

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Hi william,

I’m working with Flower and I’m currently experimenting with an implementation of FedDF. Should I consider contributing it to Flower baselines ?

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**Author:** ![williamlm](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discuss.flower.ai/williamlm/32/162_2.png) [@williamlm](https://discuss.flower.ai/u/williamlm)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/feddf-baseline-suggestion/586/3 "2025-09-02T13:23:55Z")

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Hi @theolo, that’d be amazing! Feel free to open up a PR and we’ll take a look at it.