On-Device Federated Learning via Blockchain and its Latency Analysis

08/12/2018

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by   Hyesung Kim, et al.

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In this letter, we propose a block-chained federated learning (BlockFL) architecture, where mobile devices' local learning model updates are exchanged and verified by leveraging blockchain. This enables on-device machine learning without any central coordination, even when each device lacks its own training data samples. We investigate the end-to-end learning completion latency of BlockFL, thereby yielding the optimal block generation rate as well as important insights in terms of network scalability and robustness.