arXiv:2502.01352cs.LGcs.CR2025-02被引 2

提出度量隐私机制,在医疗影像联邦学习中提升收敛性并防客户端推理攻击。

Metric Privacy in Federated Learning for Medical Imaging: Improving Convergence and Preventing Client Inference Attacks

  • 用度量隐私替代传统差分隐私,通过计算本地模型间距离来保护隐私
  • 在六种聚合策略下,模型性能优于传统差分隐私,且保持相近安全水平
  • 适用于医疗影像等有距离概念的领域,尤其适合关注收敛与隐私平衡的研究者

联邦学习允许多方在不共享原始数据的情况下协同训练全局模型,由中心服务器聚合客户端本地模型。尽管服务器可信,但网络中其他节点未必可靠,因此常采用差分隐私(DP)向全局模型添加噪声以保护隐私。然而,这可能影响模型在多轮迭代中的收敛性,具体取决于聚合策略。本文引入度量隐私(metric-privacy),作为对经典全局差分隐私的松弛形式,适用于具有距离概念的场景。从服务器端出发,通过计算本地模型间的距离实现隐私保护。我们对比了该方法与标准差分隐私在六种经典聚合策略下的表现。实验基于医疗影像任务,模拟同质与非独立同分布(non-i.i.d)客户端场景。此外,我们提出一种新型半诚实客户端推理攻击——试图推断某客户端是否参与训练,并研究如何通过差分隐私与度量隐私加以缓解。评估表明,度量隐私在性能上优于标准差分隐私,同时提供相当的对抗客户端推理攻击的能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Federated learning is a distributed learning technique that allows training a global model with the participation of different data owners without the need to share raw data. This architecture is orchestrated by a central server that aggregates the local models from the clients. This server may be trusted, but not all nodes in the network. Then, differential privacy (DP) can be used to privatize the global model by adding noise. However, this may affect convergence across the rounds of the federated architecture, depending also on the aggregation strategy employed. In this work, we aim to introduce the notion of metric-privacy to mitigate the impact of classical server side global-DP on the convergence of the aggregated model. Metric-privacy is a relaxation of DP, suitable for domains provided with a notion of distance. We apply it from the server side by computing a distance for the difference between the local models. We compare our approach with standard DP by analyzing the impact on six classical aggregation strategies. The proposed methodology is applied to an example of medical imaging and different scenarios are simulated across homogeneous and non-i.i.d clients. Finally, we introduce a novel client inference attack, where a semi-honest client tries to find whether another client participated in the training and study how it can be mitigated using DP and metric-privacy. Our evaluation shows that metric-privacy can increase the performance of the model compared to standard DP, while offering similar protection against client inference attacks.

联邦学习医疗影像差分隐私度量隐私

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