Resilient Federated Chain: Transforming Blockchain Consensus into an Active Defense Layer for Federated Learning
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| author | García-Márquez, Mario Rodríguez-Barroso, Nuria Luzón, M. Victoria Herrera, Francisco |
| author_facet | García-Márquez, Mario Rodríguez-Barroso, Nuria Luzón, M. Victoria Herrera, Francisco |
| contents | Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key paradigm for building Trustworthy AI systems by enabling privacy-preserving, decentralized model training. However, FL is highly susceptible to adversarial attacks that compromise model integrity and data confidentiality, a vulnerability exacerbated by the fact that conventional data inspection methods are incompatible with its decentralized design. While integrating FL with Blockchain technology has been proposed to address some limitations, its potential for mitigating adversarial attacks remains largely unexplored. This paper introduces Resilient Federated Chain (RFC), a novel blockchain-enabled FL framework designed specifically to enhance resilience against such threats. RFC builds upon the existing Proof of Federated Learning architecture by repurposing the redundancy of its Pooled Mining mechanism as an active defense layer that can be combined with robust aggregation rules. Furthermore, the framework introduces a flexible evaluation function in its consensus mechanism, allowing for adaptive defense against different attack strategies. Extensive experimental evaluation on image classification tasks under various adversarial scenarios, demonstrates that RFC significantly improves robustness compared to baseline methods, providing a viable solution for securing decentralized learning environments. |
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| spellingShingle | Resilient Federated Chain: Transforming Blockchain Consensus into an Active Defense Layer for Federated Learning García-Márquez, Mario Rodríguez-Barroso, Nuria Luzón, M. Victoria Herrera, Francisco Cryptography and Security Artificial Intelligence 68T01 Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key paradigm for building Trustworthy AI systems by enabling privacy-preserving, decentralized model training. However, FL is highly susceptible to adversarial attacks that compromise model integrity and data confidentiality, a vulnerability exacerbated by the fact that conventional data inspection methods are incompatible with its decentralized design. While integrating FL with Blockchain technology has been proposed to address some limitations, its potential for mitigating adversarial attacks remains largely unexplored. This paper introduces Resilient Federated Chain (RFC), a novel blockchain-enabled FL framework designed specifically to enhance resilience against such threats. RFC builds upon the existing Proof of Federated Learning architecture by repurposing the redundancy of its Pooled Mining mechanism as an active defense layer that can be combined with robust aggregation rules. Furthermore, the framework introduces a flexible evaluation function in its consensus mechanism, allowing for adaptive defense against different attack strategies. Extensive experimental evaluation on image classification tasks under various adversarial scenarios, demonstrates that RFC significantly improves robustness compared to baseline methods, providing a viable solution for securing decentralized learning environments. |
| title | Resilient Federated Chain: Transforming Blockchain Consensus into an Active Defense Layer for Federated Learning |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Artificial Intelligence 68T01 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21841 |