B2DFL: Bringing butterfly to decentralized federated learning assisted with blockchain

• Published in: Journal of parallel and distributed computing Vol. 195; p. 104978
• Main Authors: Wang, Hao, Cai, Yichen, Tao, Yu, Wang, Luyao, Li, Yanbin, Zhou, Lu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.01.2025
• Subjects: Blockchain; Butterfly; Decentralized federated learning; Hash; IPFS; Butterfly; Hash; IPFS; Decentralized federated learning; Blockchain

We propose a novel decentralized federated learning framework called B2DFL. It decomposes the aggregation process of vanilla FL into layered and serialized sub-aggregation processes and offloads the communication and computation from a single point to distributed nodes, thus addressing the single po...