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MARBLE (2025 conference) · 2026DeAI

Bittensor Protocol: The Bitcoin in Decentralized Artificial Intelligence? A Critical and Empirical Analysis

Analyzes stake and reward concentration in Bittensor and evaluates protocol changes intended to better align incentives and reduce concentration risk.

ACL Findings · 2026LLM

CircuitSynth: Reliable Synthetic Data Generation

A neuro-symbolic framework that uses a probabilistic sentential decision diagram to enforce logical constraints during structured synthetic data generation.

Preprint · 2026DeAI

A Control Theoretic Approach to Decentralized AI Economy Stabilization via Dynamic Buyback-and-Burn Mechanisms

Proposes a control-theoretic buyback mechanism with solvency constraints to address volatility in decentralized AI token economies.

ACM ICMR · 2026LLM

Identity-Decoupled Anonymization for Visual Evidence in Multi-modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Decouples identity signals from visual evidence used in retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.

ACL · 2026LLM

GraphSynth: Resolving the Diversity-Reliability Trade-off with Probabilistic Factor Graphs

Uses a probabilistic factor graph, decoding-time schema constraints, and verification to balance diversity and factual reliability in synthetic data.

IEEE SaTML · 2026FL

SoK: Blockchain-Based Decentralized AI (DeAI)

Systematization of knowledge survey of the decentralized AI field. Covers protocol design, incentives, and open challenges.

ICML Workshop · 2025DeAI

Vision: How to fully unleash the productivity of Agentic AI? Decentralized Agent Swarm Network

Outlines AgentaNet as a vision for decentralized agent swarms, with verifiable profiles, task coordination, privacy-preserving communication, and incentives.

IEEE GBC · 2025FL

Multi-Continental Healthcare Modelling Using Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning

Uses blockchain-enabled federated learning to model glucose management from datasets across Europe, North America, and Asia without sharing local data.

WI-IAT · 2025FL

Scaling Decentralized Learning with FLock

Presents a decentralized framework for collaborative fine-tuning of 70B-parameter language models and reports improved robustness against poisoning attacks.

COLING · 2025LLM

On Weaponization-Resistant Large Language Models with Prospect Theoretic Alignment

Prospect-theoretic alignment technique to make large language models robust against weaponization attempts.

IEEE JBHI · 2025FL

Privacy Preserved Blood Glucose Level Cross-Prediction: An Asynchronous Decentralized Federated Learning Approach

Asynchronous decentralized federated learning for cross-prediction of blood glucose levels while preserving patient privacy.

ACM WWW · 2025FL

AIArena: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized AI Training Platform

A blockchain-native decentralized AI training platform positioning on-chain coordination as the substrate for collaborative training.

IEEE Transactions on Big Data · 2025FL

ZkFL: Zero-Knowledge Proof-Based Gradient Aggregation for Federated Learning

Zero-knowledge proof-based gradient aggregation that delivers verifiable privacy in federated learning at scale.

CLEF · 2024

Multi-modal Feature Fusion Networks for GeoLifeCLEF 2024

Combines remote-sensing and geospatial data with multimodal feature fusion and ensemble models to predict plant species distributions.

IEEE TAI · 2024FL

Defending Against Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning With Blockchain

Blockchain-based defense against poisoning attacks in federated learning. Published in IEEE TAI.

NeurIPS DMLW Workshop · 2022 🏆 Best Paper Runner-upFL

FLock: Defending Malicious Behaviors in Federated Learning with Blockchain

Combines federated learning with blockchain to detect and defend against malicious client behaviors during training rounds.

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