BAFFLE : Blockchain based Aggregator Free Federated Learning

09/16/2019
by   Paritosh Ramanan, et al.
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A key aspect of Federated Learning (FL) is the requirement of a centralized aggregator to select and integrate models from various user devices. However, infeasibility of an aggregator due to a variety of operational constraints could prevent FL from being widely adopted. In this paper, we introduce BAFFLE, an aggregator free FL environment. Being powered by the blockchain, BAFFLE is inherently decentralized and successfully eliminates the constraints associated with an aggregator based FL framework. Our results indicate that BAFFLE provides superior performance while circumventing critical computational bottlenecks associated with the blockchain.

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