The paper experimentally evaluates the operational cost of a DAO‑governed blockchain‑enabled federated learning marketplace. It decomposes gas consumption across the entire contract lifecycle, isolates the impact of on‑chain coordination and IPFS storage, and derives an analytical model for cost amortization. Results show a single training task consumes about 3.8 million gas units per trainer, with the average cost per training round reaching its amortization knee after roughly 20 communication rounds, while model performance remains comparable to conventional FL deployments.
arXiv:2606. 18384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) enables scalable collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving data privacy.
The paper investigates the trade‑off between the costs of participating in federated learning (privacy, communication, compute) and the potential gains in model performance, framing this as a game‑theoretic problem of individual rationality versus autarky. It shows that clients can remain below their local‑training baseline for many rounds and that simply capping per‑round contributions harms learning. The authors propose a new mechanism that provides short‑term participation guarantees and personalized model evaluation, demonstrating theoretically and empirically that clients can avoid short‑term losses without significantly harming overall performance, even under moderate heterogeneity.
arXiv:2602. 08290v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In federated learning (FL), decentralized model training allows multi-ple participants to collaboratively improve a shared machine learning model without exchanging raw data.
arXiv:2503. 07869v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Critical learning periods (CLPs) in federated learning (FL) refer to early stages during which low-quality contributions (e.
arXiv:2609.15681v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a systematic examination and experimental comparison of the prominent Federated Learning (FL) frameworks FedML, Flower, Substra,...
arXiv:2606. 04388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for collaborative intelligence while preserving data privacy.
arXiv:2607. 08651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralized federated learning (DFL) removes the central server by letting nodes exchange model updates through peer-to-peer gossip, but existing gossip-based methods often lack provenance finality and resilience to Byzantine or lazy participants.
The paper introduces a latent information sharing scheme for federated learning that mitigates client drift by sharing a small amount of hidden‑layer activations. The authors demonstrate both theoretically and empirically that this approach improves training efficiency while maintaining convergence guarantees and data privacy. Compared to existing methods such as FedProx, SCAFFOLD, FedPVR, FedProto, and SplitFed, the proposed method achieves higher model accuracy within a fixed round budget without adding significant communication overhead.
arXiv:2608. 01095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables multiple intelligent devices to collaboratively train a high-accuracy model without sharing raw data.
arXiv:2607. 03171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralised federated learning, based on peer-to-peer communication, is increasingly proposed for on-device training of machine learning models, promising a privacy-preserving, communication-efficient training process with no risk of single-point failure.
arXiv:2412.07813v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: To alleviate the training burden in federated learning while enhancing convergence speed, Split Federated Learning (SFL) has emerged as a pro...
arXiv:2503. 07570v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep learning, when integrated with a large amount of training data, has the potential to outperform machine learning in terms of high accuracy.