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Rethinking Blockchain and Decentralized Learning: Position Paper

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Blockchain technology and decentralized learning are attracting growing attention. Most existing methods of machine learning is in the centralized form which relies upon the third party in terms of the raw datasets and mining resources. Blockchain solves world centralization problems that keep the system secure through complex mathematical computations puzzle solved by blockchain miners. Concurrently, decentralized learning such as federated model allows the user to collaboratively access the updated prediction model without revealing the training data to the public. By doing so, it provides less power consumption, lower latency that respects the user’s privacy concern. Therefore, we study the extent to which these two technologies can be applied in the real world for faster convergence without compromising user’s security.

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This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. NRF-2018R1D1A1B07048944) and partially was supported by the MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-2019-2015-0-00403) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation).

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Rahmadika, S., Rhee, KH. (2021). Rethinking Blockchain and Decentralized Learning: Position Paper. In: Park, J.J., Fong, S.J., Pan, Y., Sung, Y. (eds) Advances in Computer Science and Ubiquitous Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 715. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9343-7_18

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