Summary of Security Assessment Of Hierarchical Federated Deep Learning, by D Alqattan et al.
Security Assessment of Hierarchical Federated Deep Learning
by D Alqattan, R Sun, H Liang, G Nicosia, V Snasel, R Ranjan, V Ojha
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research investigates the security of Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL), a promising distributed deep learning model training paradigm. The study assesses the resilience of HFL against adversarial attacks, including inference-time and training-time attacks. The authors find that HFL is robust against untargeted training-time attacks due to its hierarchical structure, but targeted attacks, particularly backdoor attacks, can exploit this architecture when malicious clients are positioned in overlapping coverage areas of edge servers. The study highlights the importance of balanced security strategies in HFL systems, leveraging their inherent strengths while effectively mitigating vulnerabilities. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary HFL is a way for many devices to work together and learn from each other without sharing all their data. This is important because it helps keep information private. But some bad actors might try to hack into this system to trick the machines into making wrong decisions. The researchers looked at how well HFL can withstand these attacks. They found that if someone tries to make the system do something it wasn’t programmed to do, HFL is pretty good at stopping them. However, if an attacker specifically targets certain parts of the system, they might be able to get around some of the protections. This means we need to come up with ways to keep these attacks from happening in the first place. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Federated learning » Inference
