Secure Architectures Implementing Trusted Coalitions for Blockchained Distributed Learning (TCLearn)

Sébastien Lugan, Paul Desbordes, Luis Xavier Ramos Tormo, Axel Legay, Benoît Macq

Abstract: Distributed learning across a coalition of organizations allows the members of the coalition to train and share a model without sharing the data used to optimize this model. In this paper, we propose new secure architectures that guarantee preservation of data privacy, trustworthy sequence of iterative learning and equitable sharing of the learned model among each member of the coalition by using adequate encryption and blockchain mechanisms. We exemplify its deployment in the case of the distributed optimization of a deep learning convolutional neural network trained on medical images.