| CPC H04L 41/16 (2013.01) [G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] | 20 Claims | 

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               1. An apparatus for a communication network, the apparatus comprising: 
            at least one processor; and 
                at least one memory storing instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: 
                determining that at least one distributed node of a plurality of distributed nodes associated with the apparatus has not provided training information relating to a training process of a machine learning model before expiry of a first timer for a given iteration of N iterations of the training process; 
                generating analytic information relative to the at least one distributed node, wherein the analytic information comprises a count based on the determining; and 
                providing the analytic information to a storage function. 
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