A Distributed Computation Model Based on Federated Learning Integrates Heterogeneous models and Consortium Blockchain for Solving Time-Varying Problems

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel distributed computation model leveraging federated learning and blockchain technology to effectively integrate heterogeneous models and address time-varying problems in complex environments.

Contribution

It proposes a blockchain-based distributed computation framework with a hierarchical integration algorithm for heterogeneous model collaboration.

Findings

The model improves credibility and coordination among diverse models.

Experimental results show it outperforms existing federated learning models.

The approach enhances robustness in dynamic, complex environments.

Abstract

The recurrent neural network has been greatly developed for effectively solving time-varying problems corresponding to complex environments. However, limited by the way of centralized processing, the model performance is greatly affected by factors like the silos problems of the models and data in reality. Therefore, the emergence of distributed artificial intelligence such as federated learning (FL) makes it possible for the dynamic aggregation among models. However, the integration process of FL is still server-dependent, which may cause a great risk to the overall model. Also, it only allows collaboration between homogeneous models, and does not have a good solution for the interaction between heterogeneous models. Therefore, we propose a Distributed Computation Model (DCM) based on the consortium blockchain network to improve the credibility of the overall model and effective coordination among heterogeneous models. In addition, a Distributed Hierarchical Integration (DHI) algorithm is also designed for the global solution process. Within a group, permissioned nodes collect the local models' results from different permissionless nodes and then sends the aggregated results back to all the permissionless nodes to regularize the processing of the local models. After the iteration is completed, the secondary integration of the local results will be performed between permission nodes to obtain the global results. In the experiments, we verify the efficiency of DCM, where the results show that the proposed model outperforms many state-of-the-art models based on a federated learning framework.