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GRNN: Generative Regression Neural Network - A Data Leakage Attack for Federated Learning
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Volume: 13, Issue: 4
Swansea University Authors:
Hans Ren, Jingjing Deng, Xianghua Xie
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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3510032
Abstract
Data privacy has become an increasingly important issue in Machine Learning (ML), where many approaches have been developed to tackle this challenge, e.g. cryptography (Homomorphic Encryption (HE), Differential Privacy (DP), etc.) and collaborative training (Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC), Dis...
| Published in: | ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology |
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| ISSN: | 2157-6904 2157-6912 |
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59093 |
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Data privacy has become an increasingly important issue in Machine Learning (ML), where many approaches have been developed to tackle this challenge, e.g. cryptography (Homomorphic Encryption (HE), Differential Privacy (DP), etc.) and collaborative training (Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC), Distributed Learning and Federated Learning (FL)). These techniques have a particular focus on data encryption or secure local computation. They transfer the intermediate information to the third party to compute the final result. Gradient exchanging is commonly considered to be a secure way of training a robust model collaboratively in Deep Learning (DL). However, recent researches have demonstrated that sensitive information can be recovered from the shared gradient. Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), in particular, has shown to be effective in recovering such information. However, GAN based techniques require additional information, such as class labels which are generally unavailable for privacy-preserved learning. In this paper, we show that, in the FL system, image-based privacy data can be easily recovered in full from the shared gradient only via our proposed Generative Regression Neural Network (GRNN). We formulate the attack to be a regression problem and optimize two branches of the generative model by minimizing the distance between gradients. We evaluate our method on several image classification tasks. The results illustrate that our proposed GRNN outperforms state-of-the-art methods with better stability, stronger robustness, and higher accuracy. It also has no convergence requirement to the global FL model. Moreover, we demonstrate information leakage using face re-identification. Some defense strategies are also discussed in this work. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
| Funders: |
EPSRC, EP/N028139/1 |
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4 |