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With the technological advances in machine learning, effective ways are available to process the huge amount of data generated in real life. However, issues of privacy and scalability will constrain the development of machine learning.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhilin Wang , Qin Hu , Minghui Xu , Yan Zhuang , Yawei Wang , Xiuzhen Cheng

While centralized servers pose a risk of being a single point of failure, decentralized approaches like blockchain offer a compelling solution by implementing a consensus mechanism among multiple entities. Merging distributed computing with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ji Liu , Chunlu Chen , Yu Li , Lin Sun , Yulun Song , Jingbo Zhou , Bo Jing , Dejing Dou

Unlearning in Federated Learning (FL) presents significant challenges, as models grow and evolve with complex inheritance relationships. This complexity is amplified when blockchain is employed to ensure the integrity and traceability of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xiao Liu , Mingyuan Li , Xu Wang , Guangsheng Yu , Wei Ni , Lixiang Li , Haipeng Peng , Renping Liu

Vanilla Federated learning (FL) relies on the centralized global aggregation mechanism and assumes that all clients are honest. This makes it a challenge for FL to alleviate the single point of failure and dishonest clients. These impending…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Rongxin Xu , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Qiujun Lan , Gang Li

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative approach for enabling distributed machine learning while preserving user privacy, yet it faces challenges like communication inefficiencies and reliance on centralized infrastructures,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Sai Puppala , Ismail Hossain , Md Jahangir Alam , Sajedul Talukder , Zahidur Talukder , Syed Bahauddin

Federated learning (FL), as a distributed machine learning approach, has drawn a great amount of attention in recent years. FL shows an inherent advantage in privacy preservation, since users' raw data are processed locally. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Jun Li , Yumeng Shao , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Kang Wei , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Federated Learning (FL) typically involves a large-scale, distributed system with individual user devices/servers training models locally and then aggregating their model updates on a trusted central server. Existing systems for FL often…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shixiong Qi , K. K. Ramakrishnan , Myungjin Lee

Motivated by the heterogeneous nature of devices participating in large-scale Federated Learning (FL) optimization, we focus on an asynchronous server-less FL solution empowered by blockchain technology. In contrast to mostly adopted FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Francesc Wilhelmi , Lorenza Giupponi , Paolo Dini

Blockchain based federated learning is a distributed learning scheme that allows model training without participants sharing their local data sets, where the blockchain components eliminate the need for a trusted central server compared to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Huiyu Wu , Diego Klabjan

The decentralized Federated Learning (FL) paradigm built upon blockchain architectures leverages distributed node clusters to replace the single server for executing FL model aggregation. This paradigm tackles the vulnerability of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Hao Wang , Yichen Cai , Jun Wang , Chuan Ma , Chunpeng Ge , Xiangmou Qu , Lu Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed, and decentralized machine learning protocol. By executing FL, a set of agents can jointly train a model without sharing their datasets with each other, or a third-party. This makes FL particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Harsh Bimal Desai , Mustafa Safa Ozdayi , Murat Kantarcioglu

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has been a promising paradigm for communicating and edge processing of data on the move. We aim to employ Federated Learning (FL) and prominent features of blockchain into MEC architecture such as connected…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Rongxin Xu , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Qiujun Lan , Gang Li

Blockchain-empowered federated learning (FL) has provoked extensive research recently. Various blockchain-based federated learning algorithm, architecture and mechanism have been designed to solve issues like single point failure and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yihao Li , Yanyi Lai , Chuan Chen , Zibin Zheng

Introducing blockchain into Federated Learning (FL) to build a trusted edge computing environment for transmission and learning has attracted widespread attention as a new decentralized learning pattern. However, traditional consensus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Shuo Yuan , Bin Cao , Yao Sun , Zhiguo Wan , Mugen Peng

The metaverse, emerging as a revolutionary platform for social and economic activities, provides various virtual services while posing security and privacy challenges. Wearable devices serve as bridges between the real world and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Wenbo Liu , Handi Chen , Edith C. H. Ngai

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm, which enables multiple and decentralized clients to collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a central aggregator. FL can be a scalable machine learning solution in big…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhipeng Wang , Nanqing Dong , Jiahao Sun , William Knottenbelt , Yike Guo

The safety-critical scenarios of artificial intelligence (AI), such as autonomous driving, Internet of Things, smart healthcare, etc., have raised critical requirements of trustworthy AI to guarantee the privacy and security with reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhanpeng Yang , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Zixin Wang , Kai Yang

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) technique that enables collaborative training in which devices perform learning using a local dataset while preserving their privacy. This technique ensures privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Hajar Moudoud , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Lyes Khoukhi

The server-less nature of Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) requires allocating the aggregation role to specific participants in each federated round. Current DFL architectures ensure the trustworthiness of the aggregator node upon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ehsan Hallaji , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif

Federated learning(FL) is a rapidly growing field and many centralized and decentralized FL frameworks have been proposed. However, it is of great challenge for current FL frameworks to improve communication performance and maintain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yifan Hu , Yuhang Zhou , Jun Xiao , Chao Wu