ACCESS-FL: Agile Communication and Computation for Efficient Secure Aggregation in Stable Federated Learning Networks

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Autori principali: Nazemi, Niousha, Tavallaie, Omid, Chen, Shuaijun, Mandalari, Anna Maria, Thilakarathna, Kanchana, Holz, Ralph, Haddadi, Hamed, Zomaya, Albert Y.
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author Nazemi, Niousha
Tavallaie, Omid
Chen, Shuaijun
Mandalari, Anna Maria
Thilakarathna, Kanchana
Holz, Ralph
Haddadi, Hamed
Zomaya, Albert Y.
author_facet Nazemi, Niousha
Tavallaie, Omid
Chen, Shuaijun
Mandalari, Anna Maria
Thilakarathna, Kanchana
Holz, Ralph
Haddadi, Hamed
Zomaya, Albert Y.
contents Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning framework designed for privacy-aware applications. FL trains models on client devices without sharing the client's data and generates a global model on a server by aggregating model updates. Traditional FL approaches risk exposing sensitive client data when plain model updates are transmitted to the server, making them vulnerable to security threats such as model inversion attacks where the server can infer the client's original training data from monitoring the changes of the trained model in different rounds. Google's Secure Aggregation (SecAgg) protocol addresses this threat by employing a double-masking technique, secret sharing, and cryptography computations in honest-but-curious and adversarial scenarios with client dropouts. However, in scenarios without the presence of an active adversary, the computational and communication cost of SecAgg significantly increases by growing the number of clients. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose ACCESS-FL, a communication-and-computation-efficient secure aggregation method designed for honest-but-curious scenarios in stable FL networks with a limited rate of client dropout. ACCESS-FL reduces the computation/communication cost to a constant level (independent of the network size) by generating shared secrets between only two clients and eliminating the need for double masking, secret sharing, and cryptography computations. To evaluate the performance of ACCESS-FL, we conduct experiments using the MNIST, FMNIST, and CIFAR datasets to verify the performance of our proposed method. The evaluation results demonstrate that our proposed method significantly reduces computation and communication overhead compared to state-of-the-art methods, SecAgg and SecAgg+.
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spellingShingle ACCESS-FL: Agile Communication and Computation for Efficient Secure Aggregation in Stable Federated Learning Networks
Nazemi, Niousha
Tavallaie, Omid
Chen, Shuaijun
Mandalari, Anna Maria
Thilakarathna, Kanchana
Holz, Ralph
Haddadi, Hamed
Zomaya, Albert Y.
Cryptography and Security
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning framework designed for privacy-aware applications. FL trains models on client devices without sharing the client's data and generates a global model on a server by aggregating model updates. Traditional FL approaches risk exposing sensitive client data when plain model updates are transmitted to the server, making them vulnerable to security threats such as model inversion attacks where the server can infer the client's original training data from monitoring the changes of the trained model in different rounds. Google's Secure Aggregation (SecAgg) protocol addresses this threat by employing a double-masking technique, secret sharing, and cryptography computations in honest-but-curious and adversarial scenarios with client dropouts. However, in scenarios without the presence of an active adversary, the computational and communication cost of SecAgg significantly increases by growing the number of clients. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose ACCESS-FL, a communication-and-computation-efficient secure aggregation method designed for honest-but-curious scenarios in stable FL networks with a limited rate of client dropout. ACCESS-FL reduces the computation/communication cost to a constant level (independent of the network size) by generating shared secrets between only two clients and eliminating the need for double masking, secret sharing, and cryptography computations. To evaluate the performance of ACCESS-FL, we conduct experiments using the MNIST, FMNIST, and CIFAR datasets to verify the performance of our proposed method. The evaluation results demonstrate that our proposed method significantly reduces computation and communication overhead compared to state-of-the-art methods, SecAgg and SecAgg+.
title ACCESS-FL: Agile Communication and Computation for Efficient Secure Aggregation in Stable Federated Learning Networks
topic Cryptography and Security
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01722