Social AI gossiping
We envision a human-AI ecosystem in which AI-enabled devices act as proxies of humans and try to learn collectively a model.
We envision a human-AI ecosystem in which AI-enabled devices act as proxies of humans and try to learn collectively a model. To this aim, techniques for decentralized learning are employed. Each device will learn a local model that needs to be combined with the models learned by the other nodes, in order to improve both the local and global knowledge. The challenge of doing so in a fully decentralized AI system entails understanding how to compose models coming from heterogeneous sources and, in the case of potentially untrustworthy nodes, decide who can be trusted and why. To tackle this challenge, in this microproject we focus on the specific scenario of model “gossiping” for accomplishing a decentralized learning task and we study what models emerge from the combination of local models, where combination takes into account the social relationships between the nodes (humans associated with the AI). We will use synthetic graphs to represent social relationships and large-scale simulation for performance evaluation.
This Humane-AI-Net micro-project was carried out by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) and Central European University (CEU).
The project is part of the Humane-AI-Net network of excellent research centers in AI. It contributes to this network in the following aspects:
- Task 4.1: Graybox models of society scale, networked hybrid human-AI systems
- Task 4.2: Individual vs. collective goals of AI-STS
- task 4.4: Self-organized, socially distributed information processing in AI-STS
Tangible outcomes:
- code: "SAIsim" C.Boldrini, L.Valerio, A.passarella
- Publication: under preparation