Privacy-preserving quantum federated learning via gradient hiding

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Autori principali: Li, Changhao, Kumar, Niraj, Song, Zhixin, Chakrabarti, Shouvanik, Pistoia, Marco
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Li, Changhao
Kumar, Niraj
Song, Zhixin
Chakrabarti, Shouvanik
Pistoia, Marco
author_facet Li, Changhao
Kumar, Niraj
Song, Zhixin
Chakrabarti, Shouvanik
Pistoia, Marco
contents Distributed quantum computing, particularly distributed quantum machine learning, has gained substantial prominence for its capacity to harness the collective power of distributed quantum resources, transcending the limitations of individual quantum nodes. Meanwhile, the critical concern of privacy within distributed computing protocols remains a significant challenge, particularly in standard classical federated learning (FL) scenarios where data of participating clients is susceptible to leakage via gradient inversion attacks by the server. This paper presents innovative quantum protocols with quantum communication designed to address the FL problem, strengthen privacy measures, and optimize communication efficiency. In contrast to previous works that leverage expressive variational quantum circuits or differential privacy techniques, we consider gradient information concealment using quantum states and propose two distinct FL protocols, one based on private inner-product estimation and the other on incremental learning. These protocols offer substantial advancements in privacy preservation with low communication resources, forging a path toward efficient quantum communication-assisted FL protocols and contributing to the development of secure distributed quantum machine learning, thus addressing critical privacy concerns in the quantum computing era.
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spellingShingle Privacy-preserving quantum federated learning via gradient hiding
Li, Changhao
Kumar, Niraj
Song, Zhixin
Chakrabarti, Shouvanik
Pistoia, Marco
Quantum Physics
Cryptography and Security
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Machine Learning
Distributed quantum computing, particularly distributed quantum machine learning, has gained substantial prominence for its capacity to harness the collective power of distributed quantum resources, transcending the limitations of individual quantum nodes. Meanwhile, the critical concern of privacy within distributed computing protocols remains a significant challenge, particularly in standard classical federated learning (FL) scenarios where data of participating clients is susceptible to leakage via gradient inversion attacks by the server. This paper presents innovative quantum protocols with quantum communication designed to address the FL problem, strengthen privacy measures, and optimize communication efficiency. In contrast to previous works that leverage expressive variational quantum circuits or differential privacy techniques, we consider gradient information concealment using quantum states and propose two distinct FL protocols, one based on private inner-product estimation and the other on incremental learning. These protocols offer substantial advancements in privacy preservation with low communication resources, forging a path toward efficient quantum communication-assisted FL protocols and contributing to the development of secure distributed quantum machine learning, thus addressing critical privacy concerns in the quantum computing era.
title Privacy-preserving quantum federated learning via gradient hiding
topic Quantum Physics
Cryptography and Security
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04447