ChainLearn: A Blockchain-Based Capacity-Aware Framework for Federated Ensemble Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24418v1
• Date: Sat, 23 May 2026 06:09:16 GMT
• Title: ChainLearn: A Blockchain-Based Capacity-Aware Framework for Federated Ensemble Learning
• Abstract summary: Federated learning is used in medical imaging where privacy prohibits centralizing data.<n>We propose capacity-aware coordination: measure each hospital's throughput, assign capacity-appropriate architectures, and combine predictions via weighted ensemble.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Federated learning is used in medical imaging where privacy prohibits centralizing data. Standard federated algorithms assume homogeneous hardware, identical architectures, and centralized aggregation, which fails when hospitals have unequal compute resources. We propose capacity-aware coordination: measure each hospital's throughput, assign capacity-appropriate architectures (MobileNetV3-Small, EfficientNet-B0, ResNet-50), and combine predictions via weighted ensemble. Weak and strong hospitals can participate without forcing uniform architectures. We separate on-chain policy from off-chain learning. A Solidity contract stores hospital registration, benchmark hashes, metrics, and weights. Hospitals train locally and submit only hashes and scalars (not parameters). Weighted ensemble inference is computed off-chain. Experiments on PneumoniaMNIST and DermaMNIST (5 seeds, 3 non-IID levels) show our method achieves lower or equal calibration error versus equal-weight ensemble and competitive accuracy versus FedAvg, FedProx, and FedMD. Communication overhead is 224 bytes per round, a reduction of over 912,000x compared to FedAvg.

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