I am trying to use the tensorflow_federated library in google colab but cannot figure out how to do this. I have searched a lot on the internet for the same, but everywhere it's given, you don't need to install this library in google colab and you can use it directly, but I am not able to do so. Can anyone who has used this library in google colab tell me how to install/directly use it?
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In the TensorFlow Federated Tutorials Overview there are links to 10+ colab notebooks. Navigating to any of them, and then clicking on Run in Google Colab should open the notebook in colab and demonstrates how to use.
Notably, TensorFlow Federated is not installed by default in Google Colab, rather all of the notebooks start with the following cell:
!pip install --quiet --upgrade tensorflow-federated
!pip install --quiet --upgrade nest-asyncio
import nest_asyncio
nest_asyncio.apply()
which installs TensorFlow Federated, as well as the nest-asyncio package which is needed for TensorFlow Federated's use of asyncio inside the event loop of colab itself.
