Fed-RDP: A Robust Federated Learning Framework for Multi-Party Decision-Making

In the field of intelligent manufacturing, the vast and heterogeneous nature of data across different departments poses significant challenges for collaborative decision-making. Direct data sharing often leads to severe privacy and security concerns. Although federated learning offers a promising solution, issues such as participant selection and privacy protection remain inadequately addressed. During model training, it is crucial to minimize the influence of low-quality participants and prevent the inference of sensitive information through gradient analysis, which could threaten model performance or data privacy. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a robust federated learning model, Fed-RDP, based on participant contribution evaluation and personalized differential privacy. The model leverages blockchain technology for secure data flow and storage, implemented through smart contracts. Historical parameters are submitted to evaluate contributions based on the concept of the least core, with real-time updates to reputation scores. When participants upload their local models, the scores are used as weights to aggregate and update the global model. Additionally, personalized differential noise is added to the uploaded gradients based on participant scores, preserving privacy while maximizing the utility of the data. Experimental results demonstrate that this approach effectively identifies low-quality participants, optimizes evaluation time, and protects privacy through personalized differential noise.