TrustFormer: Cross-Temporal and Cross- Dimensional Transformer for Task-Specific Multi-Dimensional Trust Evaluation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25238v1
• Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:57:18 GMT
• Title: TrustFormer: Cross-Temporal and Cross- Dimensional Transformer for Task-Specific Multi-Dimensional Trust Evaluation
• Abstract summary: TrustFormer is a task-specific multi-dimensional trust evaluation framework.<n>It learns the multi-dimensional trust evolution of potential collaborators from historical performance data.<n>It yields a 40.8% improvement in trust evaluation accuracy and enabling more reliable collaborator selection.
• Score: 11.560090481333622
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In dynamic collaborative systems, the selection of reliable collaborators is critical to ensuring effective task execution. Existing trust evaluation methods often rely on unidimensional or scalar representations, which fail to faithfully capture a collaborator's true trustworthiness, thereby motivating a shift toward multi-dimensional trust modeling. However, due to the asynchrony of collected trust-related data across different dimensions, as well as the complex intra- and inter-dimensional dependencies embedded within these data, multi-dimensional trust evaluation remains challenging. To address these challenges, we propose TrustFormer, a task-specific multi-dimensional trust evaluation framework. Specifically, TrustFormer leverages task identifiers and device-generated timestamps to synchronize heterogeneous trust-related data across historical collaborations. It further employs cross-temporal and cross-dimensional attention mechanisms to jointly model temporal dynamics and inter-dimensional correlations, thereby effectively learning the multi-dimensional trust evolution of potential collaborators from historical performance data. In addition, according to the multi-dimensional resource requirements of tasks, potential collaborators' multi-dimensional resource trust is evaluated. Finally, by synthesizing these multi-dimensional trust profiles, the framework enables the optimal collaborator selection. Experimental results demonstrate that TrustFormer outperforms existing methods by yielding a 40.8% improvement in trust evaluation accuracy and enabling more reliable collaborator selection.

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