Summary of Extracting Spatiotemporal Data From Gradients with Large Language Models, by Lele Zheng et al.
Extracting Spatiotemporal Data from Gradients with Large Language Models
by Lele Zheng, Yang Cao, Renhe Jiang, Kenjiro Taura, Yulong Shen, Sheng Li, Masatoshi Yoshikawa
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 The recent discovery of sensitive user data reconstruction from gradient updates in federated learning has raised privacy concerns. This paper proposes two novel attacks on spatiotemporal data, Spatiotemporal Gradient Inversion Attack (ST-GIA) and ST-GIA+, which successfully reconstruct the original location from gradients. Additionally, an adaptive defense strategy is designed to mitigate these attacks by dynamically adjusting perturbation levels for varying rounds of training data. Experimental analysis on three real-world datasets demonstrates that this approach preserves utility while providing effective security protection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding a way to keep personal information safe when sharing location data with others. Imagine you’re using an app to share your location, but someone can figure out where you are just by looking at the little changes in your location over time. This is called a “gradient inversion attack”. The researchers came up with two new ways to do this on location data: ST-GIA and ST-GIA+. They also created a way to stop these attacks from happening, which they tested on three real datasets. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Federated learning » Spatiotemporal
