Summary of Secure Aggregation Meets Sparsification in Decentralized Learning, by Sayan Biswas et al.
Secure Aggregation Meets Sparsification in Decentralized Learning
by Sayan Biswas, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Rafael Pires, Rishi Sharma, Milos Vujasinovic
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel secure aggregation protocol for decentralized learning (DL) called CESAR. It addresses the challenge of applying secure aggregation to sparsified models in DL, which can prevent masks from canceling out effectively. The protocol is designed to be compatible with existing sparsification mechanisms and provably defends against honest-but-curious adversaries. The paper provides analytical insight into the interaction between sparsification and the proportion of shared parameters under CESAR, as well as experimental results showing that CESAR achieves similar accuracy to decentralized parallel stochastic gradient descent (D-PSGD) with minimal data overhead. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about a new way to keep private information safe when using machine learning in a network. It’s called CESAR and it helps keep the information secure even if some people are trying to steal it. The problem is that when we use this method on sparsified models, which means we’re only sharing parts of the data, it can be hard to keep everything safe. But CESAR solves this problem by making sure that the masks (which help keep things secret) cancel out correctly. The paper shows that CESAR works well and is more accurate than some other methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Stochastic gradient descent
