Auditable Homomorphic-based Decentralized Collaborative AI with Attribute-based Differential Privacy

TL;DR

AerisAI is a decentralized AI framework that uses homomorphic encryption and blockchain to enhance privacy and security, while also addressing the negative impact of differential privacy on model performance.

Contribution

It introduces a novel decentralized collaborative AI system combining homomorphic encryption, blockchain, and attribute-based access control, with a new method to mitigate differential privacy's impact.

Findings

AerisAI outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in experiments.

The framework ensures privacy without trusted third parties.

It maintains model accuracy despite privacy constraints.

Abstract

In recent years, the notion of federated learning (FL) has led to the new paradigm of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) with privacy preservation. However, most current FL systems suffer from data privacy issues due to the requirement of a trusted third party. Although some previous works introduce differential privacy to protect the data, however, it may also significantly deteriorate the model performance. To address these issues, we propose a novel decentralized collaborative AI framework, named Auditable Homomorphic-based Decentralised Collaborative AI (AerisAI), to improve security with homomorphic encryption and fine-grained differential privacy. Our proposed AerisAI directly aggregates the encrypted parameters with a blockchain-based smart contract to get rid of the need of a trusted third party. We also propose a brand-new concept for eliminating the negative impacts of differential privacy for model performance. Moreover, the proposed AerisAI also provides the broadcast-aware group key management based on ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CPABE) to achieve fine-grained access control based on different service-level agreements. We provide a formal theoretical analysis of the proposed AerisAI as well as the functionality comparison with the other baselines. We also conduct extensive experiments on real datasets to evaluate the proposed approach. The experimental results indicate that our proposed AerisAI significantly outperforms the other state-of-the-art baselines.