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Incentive mechanism is crucial for federated learning (FL) when rational clients do not have the same interests in the global model as the server. However, due to system heterogeneity and limited budget, it is generally impractical for the…

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The widespread adoption of smartphones and smart wearable devices has led to the widespread use of Centralized Federated Learning (CFL) for training powerful machine learning models while preserving data privacy. However, CFL faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chengyan Jiang , Jiamin Fan , Talal Halabi , Israat Haque

We present models that utilize smart contracts and interledger mechanisms to provide decentralized authorization for constrained IoT devices. The models involve different tradeoffs in terms of cost, delay, complexity, and privacy, while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Vasilios A. Siris , Dimitrios Dimopoulos , Nikos Fotiou , Spyros Voulgaris , George C. Polyzos

Blockchain is considered the critical backbone technology for secure and trusted Internet of Things (IoT) in the future 6G network. However, deploying a blockchain system in a complex wireless IoT network is challenging due to the limited…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Weiyi Wang , Jin Chen , Yutao Jiao , Jiawen Kang , Wenting Dai , Yuhua Xu

The integration of machine learning with blockchain technology has witnessed increasing interest, driven by the vision of decentralized, secure, and transparent AI services. In this context, we introduce opML (Optimistic Machine Learning on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 KD Conway , Cathie So , Xiaohang Yu , Kartin Wong

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training of a shared model on edge devices while maintaining data privacy. FL is effective when dealing with independent and identically distributed (iid) datasets, but struggles with non-iid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Chenhao Xu , Jiaqi Ge , Yong Li , Yao Deng , Longxiang Gao , Mengshi Zhang , Yong Xiang , Xi Zheng

Decentralized learning is widely employed for collaboratively training models using distributed data over wireless networks. Existing decentralized learning methods primarily focus on training single-modal networks. For the decentralized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Benshun Yin , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao

Recent advances in decentralized deep learning algorithms have demonstrated cutting-edge performance on various tasks with large pre-trained models. However, a pivotal prerequisite for achieving this level of competitiveness is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Nastaran Saadati , Minh Pham , Nasla Saleem , Joshua R. Waite , Aditya Balu , Zhanhong Jiang , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

Wider coverage and a better solution to a latency reduction in 5G necessitate its combination with multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology. Decentralized deep learning (DDL) such as federated learning and swarm learning as a promising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai , Hiroshi Esaki

Blockchain has attracted broad interests to build decentralised applications. Blockchain has attracted broad interests to build decentralised applications. However, developing such applications without introducing vulnerabilities is hard…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Qinghua Lu , An Binh Tran , Ingo Weber , Hugo O'Connor , Paul Rimba , Xiwei Xu , Mark Staples , Liming Zhu , Ross Jeffery

We consider the problem of decentralized deep learning where multiple agents collaborate to learn from a distributed dataset. While there exist several decentralized deep learning approaches, the majority consider a central parameter-server…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Aditya Balu , Zhanhong Jiang , Sin Yong Tan , Chinmay Hedge , Young M Lee , Soumik Sarkar

The advent of Federated Learning (FL) has ignited a new paradigm for parallel and confidential decentralized Machine Learning (ML) with the potential of utilizing the computational power of a vast number of IoT, mobile and edge devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Leon Witt , Mathis Heyer , Kentaroh Toyoda , Wojciech Samek , Dan Li

In the era of big data, large-scale machine learning models have revolutionized various fields, driving significant advancements. However, large-scale model training demands high financial and computational resources, which are only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Haihan Duan , Tengfei Ma , Yuyang Qin , Runhao Zeng , Wei Cai , Victor C. M. Leung , Xiping Hu

Motivated by the explosive computing capabilities at end user equipments, as well as the growing privacy concerns over sharing sensitive raw data, a new machine learning paradigm, named federated learning (FL) has emerged. By training…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Long Shi , Taotao Wang , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

In the realm of real-world devices, centralized servers in Federated Learning (FL) present challenges including communication bottlenecks and susceptibility to a single point of failure. Additionally, contemporary devices inherently exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yasser H. Khalil , Amir H. Estiri , Mahdi Beitollahi , Nader Asadi , Sobhan Hemati , Xu Li , Guojun Zhang , Xi Chen

An increasing number of applications rely on complex inference tasks that are based on machine learning (ML). Currently, there are two options to run such tasks: either they are served directly by the end device (e.g., smartphones, IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-16 T. Si Salem , G. Castellano , G. Neglia , F. Pianese , A. Araldo

Conventional machine learning (ML) relies heavily on manual design from machine learning experts to decide learning tasks, data, models, optimization algorithms, and evaluation metrics, which is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Wenwu Zhu , Xin Wang , Pengtao Xie

Federated learning (FL) is a popular technique for distributing machine learning (ML) across a set of edge devices. In this paper, we study fully decentralized FL, where in addition to devices conducting training locally, they carry out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Shahryar Zehtabi , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

Recently, blockchain has gained momentum in the academic community thanks to its decentralization, immutability, transparency and security. As an emerging paradigm, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been widely used to provide…

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