Flamingo: Multi-Round Single-Server Secure Aggregation with Applications to Private Federated Learning

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Autores principales: Ma, Yiping, Woods, Jess, Angel, Sebastian, Polychroniadou, Antigoni, Rabin, Tal
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Publicado: 2023
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author Ma, Yiping
Woods, Jess
Angel, Sebastian
Polychroniadou, Antigoni
Rabin, Tal
author_facet Ma, Yiping
Woods, Jess
Angel, Sebastian
Polychroniadou, Antigoni
Rabin, Tal
contents This paper introduces Flamingo, a system for secure aggregation of data across a large set of clients. In secure aggregation, a server sums up the private inputs of clients and obtains the result without learning anything about the individual inputs beyond what is implied by the final sum. Flamingo focuses on the multi-round setting found in federated learning in which many consecutive summations (averages) of model weights are performed to derive a good model. Previous protocols, such as Bell et al. (CCS '20), have been designed for a single round and are adapted to the federated learning setting by repeating the protocol multiple times. Flamingo eliminates the need for the per-round setup of previous protocols, and has a new lightweight dropout resilience protocol to ensure that if clients leave in the middle of a sum the server can still obtain a meaningful result. Furthermore, Flamingo introduces a new way to locally choose the so-called client neighborhood introduced by Bell et al. These techniques help Flamingo reduce the number of interactions between clients and the server, resulting in a significant reduction in the end-to-end runtime for a full training session over prior work. We implement and evaluate Flamingo and show that it can securely train a neural network on the (Extended) MNIST and CIFAR-100 datasets, and the model converges without a loss in accuracy, compared to a non-private federated learning system.
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spellingShingle Flamingo: Multi-Round Single-Server Secure Aggregation with Applications to Private Federated Learning
Ma, Yiping
Woods, Jess
Angel, Sebastian
Polychroniadou, Antigoni
Rabin, Tal
Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
This paper introduces Flamingo, a system for secure aggregation of data across a large set of clients. In secure aggregation, a server sums up the private inputs of clients and obtains the result without learning anything about the individual inputs beyond what is implied by the final sum. Flamingo focuses on the multi-round setting found in federated learning in which many consecutive summations (averages) of model weights are performed to derive a good model. Previous protocols, such as Bell et al. (CCS '20), have been designed for a single round and are adapted to the federated learning setting by repeating the protocol multiple times. Flamingo eliminates the need for the per-round setup of previous protocols, and has a new lightweight dropout resilience protocol to ensure that if clients leave in the middle of a sum the server can still obtain a meaningful result. Furthermore, Flamingo introduces a new way to locally choose the so-called client neighborhood introduced by Bell et al. These techniques help Flamingo reduce the number of interactions between clients and the server, resulting in a significant reduction in the end-to-end runtime for a full training session over prior work. We implement and evaluate Flamingo and show that it can securely train a neural network on the (Extended) MNIST and CIFAR-100 datasets, and the model converges without a loss in accuracy, compared to a non-private federated learning system.
title Flamingo: Multi-Round Single-Server Secure Aggregation with Applications to Private Federated Learning
topic Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09883