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A Blockchain-based Decentralized Federated Learning Framework with Committee Consensus

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00773v1
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 02:04:16 GMT
Title: A Blockchain-based Decentralized Federated Learning Framework with Committee Consensus
Authors: Yuzheng Li, Chuan Chen, Nan Liu, Huawei Huang, Zibin Zheng and Qiang Yan
Abstract summary: In mobile computing scenarios, federated learning protects users from exposing their private data, while cooperatively training the global model for a variety of real-world applications. Security of federated learning is increasingly being questioned, due to the malicious clients or central servers' constant attack to the global model or user privacy data. We propose a decentralized federated learning framework based on blockchain, i.e., a Committee consensus (BFLC) framework.
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License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Abstract: Federated learning has been widely studied and applied to various scenarios. In mobile computing scenarios, federated learning protects users from exposing their private data, while cooperatively training the global model for a variety of real-world applications. However, the security of federated learning is increasingly being questioned, due to the malicious clients or central servers' constant attack to the global model or user privacy data. To address these security issues, we proposed a decentralized federated learning framework based on blockchain, i.e., a Blockchain-based Federated Learning framework with Committee consensus (BFLC). The framework uses blockchain for the global model storage and the local model update exchange. To enable the proposed BFLC, we also devised an innovative committee consensus mechanism, which can effectively reduce the amount of consensus computing and reduce malicious attacks. We then discussed the scalability of BFLC, including theoretical security, storage optimization, and incentives. Finally, we performed experiments using real-world datasets to verify the effectiveness of the BFLC framework.