Title
Accountable Federated Machine Learning in Government: Engineering and Management Insights
Abstract
Machine learning offers promising capabilities to improve administrative procedures. At the same time, adequate training of models using traditional learning techniques requires the collection and storage of enough training data in a central place. Unfortunately, due to legislative and jurisdictional constraints, data in a central place is scarce and training a model becomes unfeasible. Against this backdrop, federated machine learning, a technique to collaboratively train models without transferring data to a centralized location, has been recently proposed. With each government entity keeping their data private, new applications that previously were impossible now can be a reality. In this paper, we demonstrate that accountability for the federated machine learning process becomes paramount to fully overcoming legislative and jurisdictional constraints. In particular, it ensures that all government entities' data are adequately included in the model and that evidence on fairness and reproducibility is curated towards trustworthiness. We also present an analysis framework suitable for governmental scenarios and illustrate its exemplary application for online citizen participation scenarios. We discuss our findings in terms of engineering and management implications: feasibility evaluation, general architecture, involved actors as well as verifiable claims for trustworthy machine learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-82824-0_10
ELECTRONIC PARTICIPATION, EPART 2021
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Accountability, Federated learning, Framework, Verifiable claims
Conference
12849
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dian Balta172.15
Mahdi Sellami200.34
Peter Kuhn300.34
Ulrich Schöpp401.01
Matthias Buchinger500.34
Nathalie Baracaldo611112.47
Ali Anwar711314.83
Heiko Ludwig81278147.99
Mathieu Sinn900.34
Mark Purcell1000.34
Bashar Altakrouri1100.34