Paper 2022/1544
Towards Efficient Decentralized Federated Learning
Abstract
We focus on the problem of efficiently deploying a federated learning training task in a decentralized setting with multiple aggregators. To that end, we introduce a number of improvements and modifications to the recently proposed IPLS protocol. In particular, we relax its assumption for direct communication across participants, using instead indirect communication over a decentralized storage system, effectively turning it into a partially asynchronous protocol. Moreover, we secure it against malicious aggregators (that drop or alter data) by relying on homomorphic cryptographic commitments for efficient verification of aggregation. We implement the modified IPLS protocol and report on its performance and potential bottlenecks. Finally, we identify important next steps for this line of research.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- Federated Learning Decentralized Storage InterPlanetary File System Verifiable Aggregation Homomorphic Commitments
- Contact author(s)
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cpappas @ connect ust hk
dipapado @ cse ust hk
dimitris chatzopoulos @ ucd ie
epanagou @ e-ce uth gr
lalis @ uth gr
mav @ uth gr - History
- 2022-11-08: approved
- 2022-11-07: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2022/1544
- License
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CC0
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/1544,
author = {Christodoulos Pappas and Dimitrios Papadopoulos and Dimitris Chatzopoulos and Eleni Panagou and Spyros Lalis and Manolis Vavalis},
title = {Towards Efficient Decentralized Federated Learning},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/1544},
year = {2022},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1544}
}
