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How FLock.io is decentralising AI development

Defending Against Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning with Blockchain

In NeurIPS 2022 Workshops on Decentralization and Trustworthy Machine Learning in Web3: Methodologies, Platforms,

Truth Without Trust in Federated Learning

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Federated Learning for Edge Devices Secured with Blockchain-Based Authentication

In the Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Machine Learning Systems. Honored with the Best Presentation Award.

The vulnerabilities of centralised AI

zkFL: Zero-Knowledge Proof-based Gradient Aggregation for Federated Learning

Mitigating Data Leakage in Federated Learning via Blockchain-Enforced Encryption

In the Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning at NeurIPS 2023. Awarded the Best Technical Demonstration.

The concentration of power in centralised AI

Decentralized Minds: The AI + Blockchain Revolution

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Boosting Trust in Federated Learning Using Blockchain-Based Auditing Systems

Presented at the Conference on Trustworthy and Reliable AI (TRA) 2023. Runner-up in Best Application Paper.

2024 AI Trends to Watch Out for: The Rise of RAG and MoE

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FLock: Defending Malicious Behaviors in Federated Learning with Blockchain

Federated learning (FL) is a promising way to allow multiple data owners (clients) to collaboratively train machine learning models without compromising data privacy.

Author: N. Dong, J. Sun, Z. Wang, S. Zhang, S. Zheng

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Defending Against Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning with Blockchain

In the era of deep learning, federated learning (FL) presents a promising approach that allows multi-institutional data owners, or clients, to collaboratively train machine learning models without compromising data privacy.

Author:N. Dong, Z. Wang, J. Sun, M. Kampffmeyer, W. Knottenbelt and E. Xing

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zkFL: Zero-Knowledge Proof-based Gradient Aggregation for Federated Learning

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm, which enables multiple and decentralized clients to collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a central aggregator.

Author: Z. Wang, N. Dong, J. Sun, W. Knottenbelt and Y. Guo

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From Sora What We Can See: A Survey of Text-to-Video Generation

With impressive achievements made, artificial intelligence is on the path forward to artificial general intelligence.

R Sun, Y Zhang, T Shah, J Sun, S Zhang, W Li, H Duan, B Wei, R Ranjan

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GARNN: An Interpretable Graph Attentive Recurrent Neural Network for Predicting Blood Glucose Levels via Multivariate Time Series

Accurate prediction of future blood glucose (BG) levels can effectively improve BG management for people living with diabetes, thereby reducing complications and improving quality of life.

Chengzhe Piao, Taiyu Zhu, Stephanie E Baldeweg, Paul Taylor, Pantelis Georgiou, Jiahao Sun, Jun Wang, Kezhi Li

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Visual Language Model for Preclinical Toxicologic Liver Histopathology Assessment

Preclinical drug safety assessment is a critical step in drug development that relies on time-consuming manual histopathological examination, which is prone to high inter-observer variability.

Zehua Cheng, Wei Dai, Jiahao Sun

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Multi-Continental Healthcare Modelling Using Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning

One of the biggest challenges of building artificial intelligence (AI) model in healthcare area is the data sharing.

Rui Sun, Zhipeng Wang, Hengrui Zhang, Ming Jiang, Yizhe Wen, Jiqun Zhang, Jiahao Sun, Shuoying Zhang, Erwu Liu, Kezhi Li

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

Newly diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) patients often struggle to obtain effective Blood Glucose (BG) prediction models due to the lack of sufficient BG data from Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM), presenting a significant "cold start" problem in patient care.

Chengzhe Piao, Taiyu Zhu, Yu Wang, Stephanie E Baldeweg, Paul Taylor, Pantelis Georgiou, Jiahao Sun, Jun Wang, Kezhi Li

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Multi-modal Feature Fusion Networks for GeoLifeCLEF

The GeoLifeCLEF 2024 challenge focuses on accurately predicting plant species distributions and their changes over space and time, vital for biodiversity conservation and ecological research.

Zehua Cheng, Wei Dai, Jiahao Sun

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