Blockchain-based Framework for Scalable and Incentivized Federated Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14170v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:38:35 GMT
• Title: Blockchain-based Framework for Scalable and Incentivized Federated Learning
• Authors: Bijun Wu, Oshani Seneviratne,
• Abstract summary: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, preserving privacy while harnessing distributed datasets. Traditional FL systems often rely on centralized aggregating mechanisms, introducing trust issues, single points of failure, and limited mechanisms for incentivizing meaningful client contributions. This paper presents a blockchain-based FL framework that addresses these limitations by integrating smart contracts and a novel hybrid incentive mechanism.
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• Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, preserving privacy while harnessing distributed datasets. However, traditional FL systems often rely on centralized aggregating mechanisms, introducing trust issues, single points of failure, and limited mechanisms for incentivizing meaningful client contributions. These challenges are exacerbated as FL scales to train resource-intensive models, such as large language models (LLMs), requiring scalable, decentralized solutions. This paper presents a blockchain-based FL framework that addresses these limitations by integrating smart contracts and a novel hybrid incentive mechanism. The framework automates critical FL tasks, including client registration, update validation, reward distribution, and maintaining a transparent global state. The hybrid incentive mechanism combines on-chain alignment-based rewards, off-chain fairness checks, and consistency multipliers to ensure fairness, transparency, and sustained engagement. We evaluate the framework through gas cost analysis, demonstrating its feasibility for different scales of federated learning scenarios.

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