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Practical and Bilateral Privacy-preserving Federated Learning

Yan Feng, Xue Yang, Weijun Fang, Shu‐Tao Xia, Xiaohu Tang

arXiv (Cornell University), 2020

11 citations

Abstract

Federated learning, as an emerging distributed training model of neural

networks without collecting raw data, has attracted widespread attention.

However, almost all existing researches of federated learning only consider

protecting the privacy of clients, but not preventing model iterates and final

model parameters from leaking to untrusted clients and external attackers. In

this paper, we present the first bilateral privacy-preserving federated

learning scheme, which protects not only the raw training data of clients, but

also model iterates during the training phase as well as final model

parameters. Specifically, we present an efficient privacy-preserving technique

to mask or encrypt the global model, which not only allows clients to train

over the noisy global model, but also ensures only the server can obtain the

exact updated model. Detailed security analysis shows that clients can access

neither model iterates nor the final global model; meanwhile, the server cannot

obtain raw training data of clients from additional information used for

recovering the exact updated model. Finally, extensive experiments demonstrate

the proposed scheme has comparable model accuracy with traditional federated

learning without bringing much extra communication overhead.

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