arXiv AI By Kiranmayee Janardhan, Karthick S, Madhusmita Panda, Bharathi Vokkaliga Ganesh, Syed Ahmed

Governance-Aware Federated Learning for Multi-Agent AI Systems: A Policy-Driven Framework for Trustworthy Collaborative AI

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The paper introduces Governance-Aware Federated Learning (GAFL), a framework that enhances traditional federated learning with independent governance verification, fairness and explainability assessment, anomaly detection, policy enforcement, and tamper‑evident audit logging. In a cross‑silo prototype with 10 participants, GAFL successfully identified all falsified‑evidence participants and intervened on affected participants across various threat scenarios, achieving macro‑F1 scores between 0.7520 and 0.7733. The added governance processing time per round was 173.67 ± 26.94 ms, compared to 3.82 ± 0.79 ms for standard FedAvg, highlighting a trade‑off between fairness policy enforcement and utility.

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