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Research foundation
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T-RIZE is a partner of the T-RIZE Industrial Research Chair on Applications for
Sustainable and Practical Blockchain Systems at École de technologie supérieure
(ÉTS Montréal), led by Professor Kaiwen Zhang.

The chair's research context includes distributed systems and blockchain.
Related work listed by the research group addresses federated learning,
contribution attribution, robustness and verification.

Research and released software
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Research publications provide context for the broader technical direction. They
are not a feature list for the current Rizemind release or its Arc deployment.

Treat a research mechanism as an implemented capability only when the
applicable release, module, configuration and verification procedure are
documented.

Selected research
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**BlockFed.** Research on hierarchical weighted aggregation for federated
learning. See the
`2025 research record <https://pure.etsmtl.ca/en/publications/blockfed-a-novel-federated-learning-framework-based-on-hierarchic-2/>`_.

**RzkFL.** Research combining federated learning with recursive zero-knowledge
proofs for verifiable inference. See the
`research record <https://pure.etsmtl.ca/en/publications/rzkfl-a-verifiable-fast-and-privacy-preserving-framework-for-fede/>`_.
This reference is research context, not evidence that inference verification is
enabled in the documented Rizemind deployment.

Further reading
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* `T-RIZE research chair at ETS <https://www.etsmtl.ca/en/research/chairs-laboratories-institutes-centres/research-chairs/chair-trize-sustainable-blockchain>`_
* `Kaiwen Zhang at ETS <https://www.etsmtl.ca/en/study-at-ets/professors/kzhang>`_
* `Kaiwen Zhang's research profile <https://pure.etsmtl.ca/en/persons/kaiwen-zhang/>`_
* `FUSEE research group's bibliography <https://fuseelab.github.io/>`_

For the software, return to
:doc:`Architecture and verification <../concepts/architecture>` or
:doc:`the documented Arc deployment <../quickstarts/arc-mainnet>`.