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@@ -56,40 +56,42 @@ Key configuration parameters:
 
 ---
 
-### MOON
+### FedDF
 
-MOON (Model-Contrastive Federated Learning) enhances standard FedAvg by adding a model-level contrastive regularizer. Each client augments the shared model with a projection head, clones the incoming global model as a positive anchor, and reuses a small buffer of its historical checkpoints as negatives. The server still performs sample-weighted averaging but records a short history of global states for downstream analysis or warm restarts.
+FedDF (Federated Distillation and Fusion) replaces direct parameter averaging with server-side distillation on a proxy set. The server selects a deterministic unlabeled proxy subset, ships those proxy inputs alongside the current global weights, and each client returns teacher logits on that shared payload instead of ordinary weight deltas. The server then aggregates those logits and distills their ensemble into the next global model using temperature-scaled soft targets.
 
 ```bash
-cd examples/server_aggregation/moon/
-uv run moon.py -c moon_MNIST_lenet5.toml
+cd examples/server_aggregation/feddf/
+uv run feddf.py -c feddf_MNIST_lenet5.toml
 ```
 
 Key configuration parameters:
 
-- `algorithm.mu`: Weight assigned to the contrastive term (default: 5.0).
-- `algorithm.temperature`: Softmax temperature applied to cosine similarities (default: 0.5).
-- `algorithm.history_size`: Number of historical local models cached per client as negatives (default: 2).
-- `trainer.model_name`: Name used for checkpointing the projection-ready backbone (default: `moon_lenet5`).
+- `algorithm.proxy_set_size`: Number of unlabeled proxy samples used on the server for distillation.
+- `algorithm.proxy_batch_size`: Batch size for iterating through the proxy set.
+- `algorithm.proxy_seed`: Seed used to select the deterministic proxy subset shared by clients and server.
+- `algorithm.temperature`: Softmax temperature used to smooth teacher logits before distillation.
+- `algorithm.distillation_epochs`: Number of server-side distillation passes per round.
+- `algorithm.distillation_batch_size`: Batch size for the distillation optimizer.
+- `algorithm.learning_rate`: Learning rate for the server-side distillation optimizer.
 
-**Reference:** Qinbin Li, Bingsheng He, Dawn Song. “[Model-Contrastive Federated Learning](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/papers/Li_Model-Contrastive_Federated_Learning_CVPR_2021_paper.pdf),” in Proc. CVPR, 2021.
+**Reference:** Tao Lin, Lingjing Kong, Sebastian U. Stich, Martin Jaggi. "[Ensemble Distillation for Robust Model Fusion in Federated Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07242)," arXiv:2006.07242, 2020.
 
 !!! note "Alignment with the paper"
-    Here’s how Plato's implementation lines up with Li et al. (CVPR 2021) and the authors’ [reference implementation](https://github.com/Xtra-Computing/MOON):
+    The module split follows the FedDF workflow directly: `feddf.py` stays as a thin launcher, `feddf_server.py` packages the current global weights together with the shared proxy inputs, `feddf_client.py` performs the standard local update and then emits logits on that server-supplied proxy payload, `feddf_server_strategy.py` resolves the deterministic proxy subset and routes the logits payload through direct weight aggregation, and `feddf_algorithm.py` encapsulates the weighted-logit ensemble plus the temperature-scaled KL distillation step.
 
-    - Projection head & representations – `moon_model.py:31-79` implements the LeNet-style backbone plus a two-layer projection head, returning both logits and L2-normalised embeddings. The paper’s Eq. (3) (and typical contrastive- learning practice) calls for that projection step; the public repo’s simple CNN head even hints at it (they keep the projection MLP commented out). So keeping the projection in our model is faithful—and helps the cosine similarities stay well behaved.
+    The configuration surface above mirrors the paper’s core knobs. `proxy_set_size`, `proxy_batch_size`, and `proxy_seed` control the deterministic unlabeled proxy data used for ensemble distillation, `temperature` shapes the softened teacher distribution, and `distillation_epochs`, `distillation_batch_size`, and `learning_rate` control the server-side student optimization that replaces direct averaging.
 
-    - Local training objective – `moon_trainer.py:26-152` combines the supervised cross-entropy with the temperature-scaled contrastive loss exactly like Eq. (1): positives come from the frozen global model, negatives from the stored local-history models, using the same \\(\\mu\\) and \\(\\tau\\) hyper-parameters exposed in the config (`moon_MNIST_lenet5.toml:41-45`). This mirrors `train_net_fedcon` in the reference implementation, which also weights the contrastive term by \\(\\mu\\) and uses CrossEntropy on logits built from cosine similarities.
-
-    - Historical model buffer – the client keeps a FIFO queue of past local checkpoints (`moon_client.py:21-64`), equivalent to `model_buffer_size` in the paper and the author's reference implementation; that buffer is fed into the trainer through the strategy context so MOON always has negatives available.
+---
 
-    - Server aggregation – the server still performs sample-weighted FedAvg (`moon_server.py:12-35`, `moon_server_strategy.py:19-63`), matching the MOON design which leaves the aggregation rule unchanged. The extra global-history deque is bookkeeping-only.
+### MOON (client-training customization)
 
-    - Shared architecture – `moon.py:8-15` now instantiates `MoonModel` once and passes it into both the client and server `(model=model)`. That guarantees the projection-enabled architecture is shared exactly, as required for the contrastive comparisons.
+MOON is included in Plato as a **client-training customization** rather than as a server-aggregation
+rule. The server still performs sample-weighted FedAvg; the distinguishing mechanism is the
+contrastive local objective together with the historical-model buffer maintained by each client.
 
-    The only intentional deviation is that we L2-normalise the projection outputs before computing cosine similarities
-    (`moon_model.py:76-79`), which the paper assumes implicitly and improves stability. Aside from that, the workflow, hyper-
-    parameters, and loss all line up with the CVPR paper and the publicly released PyTorch reference.
+See **5. Algorithms with Customized Client Training Loops** for the runnable example, key
+configuration parameters, and the implementation alignment notes for MOON.
 
 ---
 
 
@@ -58,6 +58,45 @@ uv run feddyn/feddyn.py -c feddyn/feddyn_MNIST_lenet5.toml
 
 ---
 
+### MOON
+
+MOON (Model-Contrastive Federated Learning) enhances standard FedAvg by adding a model-level
+contrastive regularizer. Each client augments the shared model with a projection head, clones the
+incoming global model as a positive anchor, and reuses a small buffer of its historical checkpoints
+as negatives. The server still performs sample-weighted averaging but records a short history of
+global states for downstream analysis or warm restarts.
+
+```bash
+cd examples/server_aggregation/moon/
+uv run moon.py -c moon_MNIST_lenet5.toml
+```
+
+Key configuration parameters:
+
+- `algorithm.mu`: Weight assigned to the contrastive term (default: 5.0).
+- `algorithm.temperature`: Softmax temperature applied to cosine similarities (default: 0.5).
+- `algorithm.history_size`: Number of historical local models cached per client as negatives (default: 2).
+- `trainer.model_name`: Name used for checkpointing the projection-ready backbone (default: `moon_lenet5`).
+
+**Reference:** Qinbin Li, Bingsheng He, Dawn Song. “[Model-Contrastive Federated Learning](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/papers/Li_Model-Contrastive_Federated_Learning_CVPR_2021_paper.pdf),” in Proc. CVPR, 2021.
+
+!!! note "Alignment with the paper"
+    Here’s how Plato's implementation lines up with Li et al. (CVPR 2021) and the authors’ [reference implementation](https://github.com/Xtra-Computing/MOON):
+
+    - Projection head & representations – `moon_model.py:31-79` implements the LeNet-style backbone plus a two-layer projection head, returning both logits and L2-normalised embeddings. The paper’s Eq. (3) (and typical contrastive-learning practice) calls for that projection step; the public repo’s simple CNN head even hints at it (they keep the projection MLP commented out). So keeping the projection in our model is faithful and helps the cosine similarities stay well behaved.
+
+    - Local training objective – `moon_trainer.py:26-152` combines the supervised cross-entropy with the temperature-scaled contrastive loss exactly like Eq. (1): positives come from the frozen global model, negatives from the stored local-history models, using the same \\(\\mu\\) and \\(\\tau\\) hyper-parameters exposed in the config (`moon_MNIST_lenet5.toml:41-45`). This mirrors `train_net_fedcon` in the reference implementation, which also weights the contrastive term by \\(\\mu\\) and uses CrossEntropy on logits built from cosine similarities.
+
+    - Historical model buffer – the client keeps a FIFO queue of past local checkpoints (`moon_client.py:21-64`), equivalent to `model_buffer_size` in the paper and the author's reference implementation; that buffer is fed into the trainer through the strategy context so MOON always has negatives available.
+
+    - Server aggregation – the server still performs sample-weighted FedAvg (`moon_server.py:12-35`, `moon_server_strategy.py:19-63`), matching the MOON design which leaves the aggregation rule unchanged. The extra global-history deque is bookkeeping-only.
+
+    - Shared architecture – `moon.py:8-15` now instantiates `MoonModel` once and passes it into both the client and server `(model=model)`. That guarantees the projection-enabled architecture is shared exactly, as required for the contrastive comparisons.
+
+    The only intentional deviation is that we L2-normalise the projection outputs before computing cosine similarities (`moon_model.py:76-79`), which the paper assumes implicitly and improves stability. Aside from that, the workflow, hyper-parameters, and loss all line up with the CVPR paper and the publicly released PyTorch reference.
+
+---
+
 ### FedMoS
 
 FedMoS is a communication-efficient FL framework with coupled double momentum-based update and adaptive client selection, to jointly mitigate the intrinsic variance.
 
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+"""
+Entry point for running the FedDF server aggregation example.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import feddf_client
+import feddf_server
+
+
+def main():
+    """Launch a Plato training session with the FedDF algorithm."""
+    client = feddf_client.create_client()
+    server = feddf_server.Server()
+    server.run(client)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+[clients]
+type = "simple"
+total_clients = 100
+per_round = 10
+random_seed = 1
+do_test = false
+speed_simulation = true
+sleep_simulation = true
+avg_training_time = 20
+
+[clients.simulation_distribution]
+distribution = "normal"
+mean = 10
+sd = 3
+
+[server]
+address = "127.0.0.1"
+port = 8000
+synchronous = false
+simulate_wall_time = true
+minimum_clients_aggregated = 6
+staleness_bound = 10
+random_seed = 1
+
+[data]
+datasource = "Torchvision"
+dataset_name = "MNIST"
+download = true
+data_path = "data"
+partition_size = 200
+sampler = "noniid"
+concentration = 0.5
+random_seed = 1
+
+[trainer]
+rounds = 20
+type = "basic"
+max_concurrency = 4
+target_accuracy = 1.0
+epochs = 5
+batch_size = 64
+optimizer = "SGD"
+model_name = "lenet5"
+
+[algorithm]
+type = "fedavg"
+proxy_set_size = 2048
+proxy_batch_size = 128
+proxy_seed = 1
+temperature = 2.0
+distillation_epochs = 5
+distillation_batch_size = 64
+learning_rate = 0.001
+
+[parameters]
+
+[parameters.optimizer]
+lr = 0.01
+momentum = 0.9
+weight_decay = 0.0
+
+[results]
+result_path = "results/MNIST_lenet5/FedDF"
+types = "round, accuracy, elapsed_time, comm_time, round_time"
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+"""FedDF-specific helpers for ensemble distillation on the server."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from collections import OrderedDict
+from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+from feddf_utils import extract_batch_inputs, unwrap_model_outputs
+from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, Dataset, TensorDataset
+
+from plato.algorithms import fedavg
+
+
+class Algorithm(fedavg.Algorithm):
+    """Algorithm helpers for aggregating logits and distilling the student."""
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def aggregate_teacher_logits(
+        updates,
+        payloads: Sequence[Mapping[str, torch.Tensor]],
+        *,
+        weighting: str = "uniform",
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Compute the ensembled teacher logits for AVGLOGITS distillation."""
+        if not payloads:
+            raise ValueError("FedDF requires at least one logits payload.")
+
+        first_logits = payloads[0].get("logits")
+        if not isinstance(first_logits, torch.Tensor):
+            raise TypeError("FedDF payloads must include a 'logits' tensor.")
+
+        weighting_name = weighting.strip().lower()
+        if weighting_name not in {"uniform", "samples"}:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "FedDF teacher weighting must be either 'uniform' or 'samples'."
+            )
+
+        total_samples = sum(getattr(update.report, "num_samples", 0) for update in updates)
+        use_uniform_average = weighting_name == "uniform" or total_samples <= 0
+
+        aggregated = torch.zeros_like(first_logits, dtype=torch.float32)
+
+        for update, payload in zip(updates, payloads):
+            logits = payload.get("logits")
+            if not isinstance(logits, torch.Tensor):
+                raise TypeError("FedDF payloads must include a 'logits' tensor.")
+            if logits.shape != first_logits.shape:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "FedDF client logits must share the same proxy-set shape."
+                )
+
+            if use_uniform_average:
+                weight = 1 / len(payloads)
+            else:
+                weight = getattr(update.report, "num_samples", 0) / total_samples
+
+            aggregated += logits.detach().float() * weight
+
+        return aggregated
+
+    def distill_weights(
+        self,
+        baseline_weights: Mapping[str, torch.Tensor],
+        teacher_logits: torch.Tensor,
+        proxy_dataset: Dataset,
+        *,
+        temperature: float,
+        distillation_epochs: int,
+        distillation_batch_size: int,
+        distillation_learning_rate: float,
+        distillation_optimizer_name: str,
+        use_cosine_annealing: bool,
+        shuffle_batches: bool,
+    ) -> OrderedDict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+        """Distill the server model on proxy inputs using ensemble logits."""
+        if len(proxy_dataset) != len(teacher_logits):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "FedDF proxy samples and teacher logits must have matching lengths."
+            )
+
+        trainer = self.require_trainer()
+        model = self.require_model()
+        device = torch.device(getattr(trainer, "device", "cpu"))
+
+        self.load_weights(baseline_weights)
+
+        inputs = []
+        for example in proxy_dataset:
+            inputs.append(extract_batch_inputs(example))
+
+        proxy_inputs = torch.stack(inputs)
+        distillation_dataset = TensorDataset(proxy_inputs, teacher_logits.detach().cpu())
+        dataloader = DataLoader(
+            distillation_dataset,
+            batch_size=distillation_batch_size,
+            shuffle=shuffle_batches,
+        )
+
+        was_training = model.training
+        model.to(device)
+        model.train()
+
+        optimizer_name = distillation_optimizer_name.strip().lower()
+        if optimizer_name == "adam":
+            optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(
+                model.parameters(),
+                lr=distillation_learning_rate,
+            )
+        elif optimizer_name == "sgd":
+            optimizer = torch.optim.SGD(
+                model.parameters(),
+                lr=distillation_learning_rate,
+            )
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "FedDF distillation optimizer must be either 'adam' or 'sgd'."
+            )
+
+        total_steps = max(distillation_epochs * len(dataloader), 1)
+        scheduler = None
+        if use_cosine_annealing:
+            scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(
+                optimizer,
+                T_max=total_steps,
+            )
+
+        for _ in range(distillation_epochs):
+            for batch_inputs, batch_logits in dataloader:
+                batch_inputs = batch_inputs.to(device)
+                batch_logits = batch_logits.to(device)
+                teacher_probs = torch.softmax(batch_logits / temperature, dim=1)
+
+                optimizer.zero_grad()
+                student_logits = unwrap_model_outputs(model(batch_inputs))
+                student_log_probs = F.log_softmax(student_logits / temperature, dim=1)
+                loss = (
+                    F.kl_div(student_log_probs, teacher_probs, reduction="batchmean")
+                    * temperature
+                    * temperature
+                )
+                loss.backward()
+                optimizer.step()
+                if scheduler is not None:
+                    scheduler.step()
+
+        if not was_training:
+            model.eval()
+
+        return OrderedDict(
+            (name, tensor.detach().cpu().clone())
+            for name, tensor in model.state_dict().items()
+        )