让联邦学习既隐私安全又可解释,打通数据协作的透明化路径
Federated Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Roles, Architectures, Evaluation, and Open Challenges

- 将可解释性嵌入联邦学习全流程,从模型训练到聚合决策
- 提出多维度分类体系,系统梳理可解释联邦学习方法
- 揭示非独立同分布数据、安全威胁等核心挑战,适合研究者参考
联邦学习(FL)已成为跨分布式异构数据源进行隐私保护协同建模的关键范式。通过保持原始数据本地化,FL解决了数据保密性问题,但未能缓解现代机器学习模型的黑箱特性。与此同时,可解释人工智能(XAI)因提升透明度、信任度和问责性而受到关注,尤其在高风险领域。二者交汇催生了联邦可解释人工智能(FedXAI)范式,旨在同时满足隐私与可解释性需求。本综述系统回顾了FedXAI,揭示可解释性正从事后分析工具演变为联邦学习生命周期的内在组成部分。我们展示可解释性如何支持模型聚合、个性化、鲁棒性、协调及系统级决策。为组织现有文献,提出一种分类体系,按可解释性角色、模型与解释器类型、解释范围、集成层级、联邦设置及数据异质性对方法进行划分。综述涵盖从模型无关解释到可解释联邦模型、解释感知聚合机制等方法。还分析评估实践,指出缺乏标准化基准与指标来衡量解释质量、稳定性、隐私泄露和计算开销。最后,识别关键挑战:非独立同分布数据下的可解释性、以解释为中心的安全威胁、通信高效的XAI、持续性FedXAI,以及领域知识与监管约束的融合。通过整合已有工作并揭示关键缺口,本综述为设计可信、透明、隐私保护的联邦智能系统提供参考框架。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative model training across distributed and heterogeneous data sources. By keeping raw data local, FL addresses data confidentiality concerns, yet it does not resolve the opacity of modern machine learning models. In parallel, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has gained attention for improving transparency, trust, and accountability, particularly in high-stakes domains. Their intersection has given rise to Federated Explainable Artificial Intelligence (FedXAI) paradigm, which aims to jointly satisfy privacy and explainability requirements. This survey provides a systematic review of FedXAI, highlighting the transition of explainability from a post-hoc tool to an integral component of the FL lifecycle. We show how explainability supports aggregation, personalization, robustness, coordination, and system-level decision making. To organize the literature, we introduce a taxonomy that classifies FedXAI methods by the role of explainability, model and explainer types, explanation scope, integration level, FL settings, and data heterogeneity. We review approaches ranging from model-agnostic explanations to interpretable federated models and explainability-aware aggregation mechanisms. We also examine evaluation practices and discuss the lack of standardized benchmarks and metrics for measuring explanation quality, stability, privacy leakage, and computational overhead. Finally, we identify key challenges, including explainability under non-IID data, explanation-centric security threats, communication-efficient XAI, continual FedXAI, and the integration of domain knowledge and regulatory constraints. By consolidating existing work and identifying key gaps, this survey serves as a reference framework for designing trustworthy, transparent, and privacy-preserving federated AI systems.
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