提出分簇量子安全聚合,提升联邦学习抗恶意攻击能力。
CQSA: Byzantine-robust Clustered Quantum Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning
- 将客户端分组,每组用小规模高保真纠缠态本地聚合。
- 通过相似度和距离检测恶意客户端,模型收敛稳定且保真度更高。
- 适合关注量子联邦学习安全性的研究者与工程师。
联邦学习(FL)可在不共享原始数据的情况下协同训练模型,但共享的本地模型更新仍易受推断和投毒攻击。安全聚合方案被提出以缓解此类威胁。本文研究量子辅助联邦学习中的技术实现。量子安全聚合(QSA)通过将客户端更新编码至多体纠缠态的全局相位,提供信息论级别的隐私保护。然而,现有QSA协议依赖所有参与客户端共享单一全局格林伯格-霍恩-泽林格(GHZ)态,存在根本性挑战:大规模GHZ态的保真度随客户端数量增加而急剧下降;且全局聚合无法检测拜占庭客户端。本文提出分簇量子安全聚合(CQSA),一种兼顾近中期量子硬件物理限制与联邦学习拜占庭鲁棒性的模块化聚合框架。CQSA将客户端随机划分为小型集群,各集群使用高保真、低量子比特数的GHZ态执行本地量子聚合。服务器通过分析集群级聚合结果间的统计关系(如余弦相似度与欧氏距离)识别恶意贡献。理论分析与去极化噪声下的仿真表明,CQSA确保模型稳定收敛,且在状态保真度上优于全局QSA。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data. However, shared local model updates remain vulnerable to inference and poisoning attacks. Secure aggregation schemes have been proposed to mitigate these attacks. In this work, we aim to understand how these techniques are implemented in quantum-assisted FL. Quantum Secure Aggregation (QSA) has been proposed, offering information-theoretic privacy by encoding client updates into the global phase of multipartite entangled states. Existing QSA protocols, however, rely on a single global Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state shared among all participating clients. This design poses fundamental challenges: fidelity of large-scale GHZ states deteriorates rapidly with the increasing number of clients; and (ii) the global aggregation prevents the detection of Byzantine clients. We propose Clustered Quantum Secure Aggregation (CQSA), a modular aggregation framework that reconciles the physical constraints of near-term quantum hardware along with the need for Byzantine-robustness in FL. CQSA randomly partitions the clients into small clusters, each performing local quantum aggregation using high-fidelity, low-qubit GHZ states. The server analyzes statistical relationships between cluster-level aggregates employing common statistical measures such as cosine similarity and Euclidean distance to identify malicious contributions. Through theoretical analysis and simulations under depolarizing noise, we demonstrate that CQSA ensures stable model convergence, achieves superior state fidelity over global QSA.
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