Summary of Boba: Boosting Backdoor Detection Through Data Distribution Inference in Federated Learning, by Ning Wang et al.
BoBa: Boosting Backdoor Detection through Data Distribution Inference in Federated Learning
by Ning Wang, Shanghao Shi, Yang Xiao, Yimin Chen, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jul 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 This paper proposes a novel approach to detect and mitigate backdoor attacks in federated learning systems. Federated learning enables collaborative model training across decentralized devices, but its decentralization makes it vulnerable to poisoning attacks. Backdoor attacks are particularly stealthy, as they manipulate predictions for specific inputs containing triggers. Previous methods rely on the Independent and Identically Distributed (IID) data assumption, where benign model updates exhibit similarity in multiple feature spaces due to IID data. However, non-IID data introduces variance among benign models, making outlier detection-based mechanisms less effective. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In federated learning systems, backdoor attacks can manipulate predictions for specific inputs containing triggers. This paper proposes a new approach to detect and mitigate these attacks. Currently, methods rely on the assumption that benign model updates are similar in multiple feature spaces due to IID data. However, real-world data is often non-IID, which makes it harder to detect outliers as backdoor attacks. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Federated learning * Outlier detection
