提出可验证的梯度反演攻击,精准恢复联邦学习中的原始数据
No More Guessing: a Verifiable Gradient Inversion Attack in Federated Learning
- 基于ReLU激活边界几何特性,设计代数验证方法
- 在大批次下实现表格数据的精确记录与目标完全恢复
- 适合关注联邦学习隐私漏洞的研究者与安全评估人员
梯度反演攻击威胁联邦学习中的客户端隐私,可通过共享梯度重构训练样本。由于梯度聚合了多个记录的贡献,现有攻击难以解耦,导致重建结果错误且无法验证正确性。在视觉和语言任务中,攻击者可依赖人工判断重建合理性,但对数值型表格数据不适用,这让人误以为表格数据更安全。我们通过提出可验证梯度反演攻击(VGIA)挑战这一观点,提供重建样本正确性的显式证明。方法采用ReLU泄漏的几何视角:全连接层激活边界在输入空间定义超平面。VGIA引入基于子空间的代数验证测试,检测超平面限定区域是否恰好包含一条记录。一旦确认隔离,即可解析恢复对应特征向量,并通过轻量优化步骤重建目标。在多个表格基准上使用大批次实验表明,在现有最先进攻击失效或无法评估重建保真度的场景下,VGIA仍能实现精确记录与目标的恢复。相比先前几何方法,VGIA更高效分配超平面查询,减少攻击轮次,加快重建速度。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Gradient inversion attacks threaten client privacy in federated learning by reconstructing training samples from clients' shared gradients. Gradients aggregate contributions from multiple records and existing attacks may fail to disentangle them, yielding incorrect reconstructions with no intrinsic way to certify success. In vision and language, attackers may fall back on human inspection to judge reconstruction plausibility, but this is far less feasible for numerical tabular records, fueling the impression that tabular data is less vulnerable. We challenge this perception by proposing a verifiable gradient inversion attack (VGIA) that provides an explicit certificate of correctness for reconstructed samples. Our method adopts a geometric view of ReLU leakage: the activation boundary of a fully connected layer defines a hyperplane in input space. VGIA introduces an algebraic, subspace-based verification test that detects when a hyperplane-delimited region contains exactly one record. Once isolation is certified, VGIA recovers the corresponding feature vector analytically and reconstructs the target via a lightweight optimization step. Experiments on tabular benchmarks with large batch sizes demonstrate exact record and target recovery in regimes where existing state-of-the-art attacks either fail or cannot assess reconstruction fidelity. Compared to prior geometric approaches, VGIA allocates hyperplane queries more effectively, yielding faster reconstructions with fewer attack rounds.
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