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We present PDFed, a decentralized, aggregator-free, and asynchronous federated learning protocol for training image diffusion models using a public blockchain. In general, diffusion models are prone to memorization of training data, raising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Kar Balan , Andrew Gilbert , John Collomosse

Crowd-sensing has emerged as a powerful data retrieval model, enabling diverse applications by leveraging active user participation. However, data availability and privacy concerns pose significant challenges. Traditional methods like data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Luca Bedogni , Stefano Ferretti

Crowd-intelligence tries to gather, process, infer and ascertain massive useful information by utilizing the intelligence of crowds or distributed computers, which has great potential in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). A…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Jinliang Xu , Shangguang Wang , Bharat K. Bhargava , Fangchun Yang

Nowadays, federated recommendation technology is rapidly evolving to help multiple organisations share data and train models while meeting user privacy, data security and government regulatory requirements. However, federated recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jianhai Chen , Yanlin Wu , Dazhong Rong , Guoyao Yu , Lingqi Jiang , Zhenguang Liu , Peng Zhou , Rui Shen

Training ML models which are fair across different demographic groups is of critical importance due to the increased integration of ML in crucial decision-making scenarios such as healthcare and recruitment. Federated learning has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Shen Yan , Chaoyang He , Emilio Ferrara , Salman Avestimehr

Motivation: Bioinformatics is faced with a variety of problems that require human involvement. Tasks like genome annotation, image analysis, knowledge-base construction and protein structure determination all benefit from human input. In…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-01 Benjamin M. Good , Andrew I. Su

The success of deep learning partially benefits from the availability of various large-scale datasets. These datasets are often crowdsourced from individual users and contain private information like gender, age, etc. The emerging privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Ang Li , Yixiao Duan , Huanrui Yang , Yiran Chen , Jianlei Yang

Federated learning has emerged as a paradigm for collaborative learning, enabling the development of robust models without the need to centralise sensitive data. However, conventional federated learning techniques have privacy and security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Matteucci

Giving or recommending appropriate content based on the quality of experience is the most important and challenging issue in recommender systems. As collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most prominent and popular techniques used for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Cong Tran , Jang-Young Kim , Won-Yong Shin , Sang-Wook Kim

Crowdsourcing offers unprecedented potential for solving tasks efficiently by tapping into the skills of large groups of people. A salient feature of crowdsourcing---its openness of entry---makes it vulnerable to malicious behavior. Such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Victor Naroditskiy , Nicholas R. Jennings , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Manuel Cebrian

Federated Learning (FL) has increasingly been recognized as an innovative and secure distributed model training paradigm, aiming to coordinate multiple edge clients to collaboratively train a shared model without uploading their private…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Wenhao Yuan , Xuehe Wang

Crowdsourcing has become an efficient paradigm for performing large scale tasks. Truth discovery and incentive mechanism are fundamentally important for the crowdsourcing system. Many truth discovery methods and incentive mechanisms for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Lingyun Jiang , Xiaofu Niu , Jia Xu , Dejun Yang , Lijie Xu

Federated Inference (FI) studies how independently trained and privately owned models can collaborate at inference time without sharing data or model parameters. While recent work has explored secure and distributed inference from disparate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jungwon Seo , Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Chunming Rong , Jaeyeon Jang

Federated learning (FL) has achieved great success as a privacy-preserving distributed training paradigm, where many edge devices collaboratively train a machine learning model by sharing the model updates instead of the raw data with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yuchang Sun , Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Songze Li , Jun Zhang

Allowing members of the crowd to propose novel microtasks for one another is an effective way to combine the efficiencies of traditional microtask work with the inventiveness and hypothesis generation potential of human workers. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Abigail Hotaling , James P. Bagrow

The increasingly stringent regulations on privacy protection have sparked interest in federated learning. As a distributed machine learning framework, it bridges isolated data islands by training a global model over devices while keeping…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Zhitao Zhu , Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

In this paper, we propose FairCrowd, a private, fair, and verifiable framework for aggregate statistics in mobile crowdsensing based on the public blockchain. In specific, mobile users are incentivized to collect and share private data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Miao He , Jianbing Ni , Dongxiao Liu , Haomiao Yang , Xuemin , Shen

Crowd-sourcing deals with solving problems by assigning them to a large number of non-experts called crowd using their spare time. In these systems, the final answer to the question is determined by summing up the votes obtained from the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Samin Nili Ahmadabadi , Maryam Haghifam , Vahid Shah-Mansouri , Sara Ershadmanesh

Crowdsensing, also known as participatory sensing, is a method of data collection that involves gathering information from a large number of common people (or individuals), often using mobile devices or other personal technologies. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Chattu Bhargavi , Vikash Kumar Singh

Crowdsourcing is a multidisciplinary research area including disciplines like artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, database, and social science. To facilitate cooperation across disciplines, reproducibility is a crucial…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Ruochen Jiang , Jiannan Wang