arXiv:2505.14024cs.LGcs.AI2025-05被引 1

通过嵌入矩阵范数识别并剔除恶意模型,提升联邦学习抗非目标攻击能力。

FedGraM: Defending Against Untargeted Attacks in Federated Learning via Embedding Gram Matrix

  • 用辅助数据集生成嵌入,计算模型间类分离能力的矩阵范数
  • 在少量样本下仍显著优于现有防御方法,准确率提升10%以上
  • 适合数据异构性强、存在隐蔽攻击的实用联邦学习场景

联邦学习(FL)允许地理分布的客户端通过共享本地模型协同训练,保护数据隐私。然而,FL易受非目标攻击影响,此类攻击旨在降低全局模型在原始数据分布上的性能。现有防御方法在真实环境中因数据异构性而效果受限。本文提出一种新聚合方法FedGraM,旨在检测并移除攻击。我们发现,在数据有限时,不同类别嵌入间的差异比直接准确率更能反映泛化能力。服务器维护一个每类仅含一个样本的辅助数据集,将其输入各本地模型提取嵌入,并计算嵌入的Gram矩阵范数,该范数作为模型在嵌入空间中类间分离能力的指标。FedGraM通过过滤掉范数最大的模型,保留剩余模型进行平均,形成全局模型。大量实验表明,即使使用少量样本构建辅助数据集,FedGraM仍显著优于当前最优防御方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Federated Learning (FL) enables geographically distributed clients to collaboratively train machine learning models by sharing only their local models, ensuring data privacy. However, FL is vulnerable to untargeted attacks that aim to degrade the global model's performance on the underlying data distribution. Existing defense mechanisms attempt to improve FL's resilience against such attacks, but their effectiveness is limited in practical FL environments due to data heterogeneity. On the contrary, we aim to detect and remove the attacks to mitigate their impact. Generalization contribution plays a crucial role in distinguishing untargeted attacks. Our observations indicate that, with limited data, the divergence between embeddings representing different classes provides a better measure of generalization than direct accuracy. In light of this, we propose a novel robust aggregation method, FedGraM, designed to defend against untargeted attacks in FL. The server maintains an auxiliary dataset containing one sample per class to support aggregation. This dataset is fed to the local models to extract embeddings. Then, the server calculates the norm of the Gram Matrix of the embeddings for each local model. The norm serves as an indicator of each model's inter-class separation capability in the embedding space. FedGraM identifies and removes potentially malicious models by filtering out those with the largest norms, then averages the remaining local models to form the global model. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate the performance of FedGraM. Our empirical results show that with limited data samples used to construct the auxiliary dataset, FedGraM achieves exceptional performance, outperforming state-of-the-art defense methods.

联邦学习模型安全嵌入分析防御机制

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