Summary of Provable Privacy Advantages Of Decentralized Federated Learning Via Distributed Optimization, by Wenrui Yu et al.
Provable Privacy Advantages of Decentralized Federated Learning via Distributed Optimization
by Wenrui Yu, Qiongxiu Li, Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg, Mads Græsbøll Christensen, Richard Heusdens
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Theory (cs.IT)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers explore the privacy benefits of federated learning (FL) by comparing decentralized and centralized approaches. Unlike previous studies suggesting no additional privacy gains from decentralization, the authors demonstrate that decentralized FL with distributed optimization provides enhanced privacy protection over centralized models. They conduct a pioneering information-theoretical analysis to quantify privacy loss in both frameworks, showing that decentralized FL is upper bounded by centralized FL. The study highlights the key distinction of optimization-based decentralized FL being resistant to private data inference due to the complexity of local gradients and aggregated sums. Case studies involving logistic regression and deep neural networks demonstrate lower privacy risks for complex models under decentralized FL. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Federated learning helps protect people’s personal data by keeping it on their own devices instead of in one central place. Some research suggests that this approach doesn’t actually provide more privacy benefits than keeping all the data together. But a new study shows that when we use a special type of optimization, decentralized federated learning can actually be even safer for our private information. The researchers did some fancy math to figure out how much risk is involved in each method and found that decentralized FL is safer because it’s harder to guess people’s personal info. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Federated learning » Inference » Logistic regression » Optimization
