用经济激励让恶意客户端不敢投毒,保护联邦学习模型。
A Bayesian Incentive Mechanism for Poison-Resilient Federated Learning
- 设计贝叶斯激励机制,让攻击者因亏本而不敢作恶。
- 50%恶意攻击下仍保持96.7%准确率,远超标准方法。
- 轻量级、易集成,适合实际部署的联邦学习系统。
联邦学习(FL)允许多个分布式客户端在保护数据隐私的前提下协同训练模型,但其开放参与特性使其易受数据投毒攻击——恶意参与者提交污染的模型更新以破坏全局模型。现有防御多为被动式,依赖统计聚合规则,计算开销大且通常假设多数客户端诚实。本文提出一种主动的经济防御机制:轻量级贝叶斯激励机制,使恶意行为在经济上变得无利可图。每轮训练被建模为不完全信息的贝叶斯博弈,服务器作为主导方,利用少量私有验证数据集在发放奖励前验证更新质量。该设计满足个体理性(IR)和激励相容(IC),确保良性客户端参与有利可图,而投毒则为次优策略。在非独立同分布的MNIST和FashionMNIST数据集上的大量实验表明:当50%客户端进行标签翻转攻击时,该机制仍保持96.7%准确率,仅比30%攻击场景低0.3个百分点;而标准FedAvg在相同攻击下性能崩溃,准确率大幅下降51.7个百分点。该机制计算轻量、预算可控,可无缝集成至现有联邦学习框架,为构建经济稳健且可持续的联邦学习生态提供可行路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy. However, its open-participation nature exposes it to data-poisoning attacks, in which malicious actors submit corrupted model updates to degrade the global model. Existing defenses are often reactive, relying on statistical aggregation rules that can be computationally expensive and that typically assume an honest majority. This paper introduces a proactive, economic defense: a lightweight Bayesian incentive mechanism that makes malicious behavior economically irrational. Each training round is modeled as a Bayesian game of incomplete information in which the server, acting as the principal, uses a small, private validation dataset to verify update quality before issuing payments. The design satisfies Individual Rationality (IR) for benevolent clients, ensuring their participation is profitable, and Incentive Compatibility (IC), making poisoning an economically dominated strategy. Extensive experiments on non-IID partitions of MNIST and FashionMNIST demonstrate robustness: with 50% label-flipping adversaries on MNIST, the mechanism maintains 96.7% accuracy, only 0.3 percentage points lower than in a scenario with 30% label-flipping adversaries. This outcome is 51.7 percentage points better than standard FedAvg, which collapses under the same 50% attack. The mechanism is computationally light, budget-bounded, and readily integrates into existing FL frameworks, offering a practical route to economically robust and sustainable FL ecosystems.
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