Introducing Hypertensor — Decentralized Machine Learning

Hypertensor
2 min readDec 2, 2023

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Hypertensor is a decentralized machine learning network. It is a peer-to-peer network for machine learning models to ensure the future of Artificial Intelligence is available to everyone across the globe without the need of relying on and the control of centralized data centers like OpenAI.

Brief

Hypertensor gives users the ability to contribute computational power towards machine learning models in a decentralized network. In return for contributing computational power, incentives are rewarded. Incentives are based on a peer-to-peer ranking system that is based on throughput, model hosting, availability, ping, stake balance, and other parameters.

The blockchain is built using Substrate, an autonomous blockchain by the Polkadot team used by a multiple of blockchains. Hypertensor is built incorporating Hivemind, a library for decentralized deep learning across the Internet. Hivemind is built using libp2p, a well established p2p library that many blockchains use, such as Ethereum and many others.

We put forward the concept of incentivizing the contribution of computational power towards machine learning models by integrating blockchain technology that will validate throughput, secure the models, and act as a payments & transactions infrastructure.

Overview

The network is similar to BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer network across the internet for downloading files. We use the Kademlia algorithm which is a Distributed Hash Table that gives the ability to connect many computers into one network. Per model, each peer contributes a piece of the model and combines with other peers in the network doing the same. Users can access this network to train, fine-tine, and sample models as they would with their favorite platforms like Pytorch and Huggingface.

In closing, Hypertensor is currently offering a chatbot hosted using a decentralized peer-to-peer network at https://chat.hypertensor.org/ This chatbot intermittently online at the moment and may have bugs.

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