arXiv:2608.27836cs.CRcs.AI2026-08

用公共数据固定梯度表示空间,有效防御成员推断攻击。

FISGuard: Defending Against Membership Inference via Fixed Input Subspaces

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  • 用独立公共数据构建并固定低维表示子空间,限制私有信息泄露。
  • 在多数设置下将ProjRes攻击的AUC降至0.5(随机猜测水平)。
  • 轻量级设计,保持模型性能,适合联邦学习场景使用。

随着大语言模型在联邦学习中的广泛应用,如何在参数高效微调分布式私有数据的同时保护用户隐私成为重要挑战。尽管客户端仅共享梯度而非原始数据,但共享梯度仍可能泄露训练样本的成员信息。ProjRes(S&P, 2026)进一步加剧了这一风险:攻击者仅需利用候选表示与服务器可观测梯度所诱导子空间之间的投影残差,即可在不访问模型输出的情况下有效区分成员与非成员。现有防御多依赖梯度扰动或正则化,不仅降低模型效用,且无法有效应对由ProjRes引入的基于梯度几何结构的成员推断攻击。为此,我们提出FISGuard,一种轻量级防御机制。其核心思想是利用独立公共数据构建并固定一个低维表示子空间,从而限制通过梯度暴露的私有表示空间,同时保留下游任务所需主要信息。这显著减小了成员与非成员间的投影残差差异。我们在三个NLP数据集、两个LLM及两种微调策略(Adapter与LoRA)上,对五种代表性防御方法进行评估。结果表明,FISGuard在多数设置下将ProjRes攻击的AUC降至接近0.5(随机猜测水平),同时保持下游任务性能接近未受保护模型,计算开销极小,实现了良好的隐私-效用权衡。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

As large language models are increasingly adopted in federated learning, protecting user privacy while performing parameter-efficient fine-tuning on distributed private data has become an important challenge. Although clients only share gradients instead of directly uploading raw data, the shared gradients may still leak membership information about training samples. ProjRes (S&P, 2026) further increases this risk: with less information and without accessing model outputs, an attacker can effectively distinguish members from non-members solely based on the projection residual between a candidate representation and the subspace induced by server-observable gradients. Existing defenses against membership inference mostly rely on gradient perturbation or regularization, which can not only degrade model utility but also fail to effectively defend against the membership inference attack introduced by ProjRes, which exploits the geometric structure of gradients. To address this issue, we propose FISGuard, a lightweight defense. Its key idea is to construct and fix a low-dimensional representation subspace using independent public data, thereby restricting the space through which private representations are exposed via gradients while preserving the primary information required for downstream tasks. This substantially reduces the projection-residual discrepancy between members and non-members. We evaluate FISGuard against five representative defense methods across three NLP datasets, two LLMs, and two fine-tuning strategies, Adapter and LoRA. The results show that FISGuard reduces the ProjRes attack AUC to near the random-guessing level of 0.5 in most settings, while maintaining downstream task performance close to that of the undefended model and introducing only limited computational overhead, thereby achieving a favorable privacy--utility trade-off.

联邦学习成员推断隐私保护梯度安全

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