Huawei Huang

Slingshot: Globally Favorable Local Updates for Federated Learning

2024 · IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society

Federated Learning (FL), as a promising distributed learning paradigm, is proposed to solve the contradiction between the data hunger of modern machine learning and the increasingly stringent need for data privacy. However, clients naturally present …

BrokerChain: A Blockchain Sharding Protocol by Exploiting Broker Accounts

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

State-of-the-art blockchain sharding solutions such as Monoxide, can cause severely imbalanced distribution of transaction (TX) workloads across all blockchain shards due to the deployment policy of their accounts. Imbalanced TX distributions then produce hot shards, …