Archived research examples
Archived examples preserve source, configuration, and provenance for historical study. Their commands require a separate historical checkout and environment; they are outside current runtime support. Read the per-family README before attempting restoration. Original documents inside an archive retain their old wording, including paths and commands that are no longer active.
Retired integrations and model-search variants
| Family | Preserved scope |
|---|---|
| Legacy ViT factory | The former plato.models.vit factory and four ViT configs, including DeepViT, T2T-ViT, SwinV2, and LeViT. |
| FedTP | The complete FedTP experiment, including the server hypernetwork, algorithm, and both ViT/T2T-ViT configs. |
| pFedRLNAS / PerFedRLNAS | All NASViT, MobileNetV3, and DARTS modes, their shared configs, and vendored NASViT support. |
| FedRLNAS | The FedRLNAS experiment, its MNIST config, and its DARTS search-space code. |
| AnyCostFL local ViT | The local vit.py implementation and example_ViT.toml; shared runtime files are copied only as historical context. |
| FedRolex local ViT | The local vit.py implementation and example_ViT.toml; shared runtime files are copied only as historical context. |
| HeteroFL custom MobileNetV3 | The custom mobilenetv3.py branch; shared runtime files and the ResNet config are copied only as historical context. |
| Nanochat | Original integration, runbook, and pinned upstream source snapshot. |
| LeRobot / SmolVLA | Original robotics integration and runbook; upstream policy/data revisions were not pinned. |
The repository archive index
links manifests, immutable source identities, historical restoration notes, and
license provenance. Files marked copied_context explain a retired branch;
they do not retire every current implementation with the same filename.
The active model-search examples
retain AnyCostFL, FedRolex, and HeteroFL ResNet paths plus the separate SysHeteroFL
ResNet example. The legacy model_type = "vit" factory is retired, while generic
Hugging Face and Torchvision families remain separate. The current Hugging Face
causal-LM factory is not an image-classification ViT replacement.
Qwen3 Federated LoRA is the maintained text-model reference. Its pinned base model and tokenizer do not make Nanochat artifacts interchangeable, and it does not replace robotics policy training. For Apple Silicon workloads, consult the separate native MLX guide.
Earlier historical examples and utilities
The following sources remain at their existing historical locations:
- Norm bounding: legacy aggregation and threshold handling.
- FjORD: legacy width sampling with local ResNet/ViT implementations.
- FL-MAML and CS-MAML: historical meta-training and cross-silo personalization; CS-MAML depends on the sibling FL-MAML directory.
- Multimodal dataset utilities and legacy Gym adapter: preserved utilities with their original limitations.
These are research references, not recommended current strategy templates. Start new client extensions from the active examples in the client reference. Preserved lockfiles and captured source hashes establish provenance, not successful execution on current Python 3.13 dependencies. External datasets, checkpoints, and toolchains may need separate historical versions; unknown upstream revisions remain unknown.