Authors
- Chen Chen
- Lingjuan Lyu
- Yuchen Liu*
- Fangzhao Wu*
- Chaochao Chen*
- Gang Chen*
* External authors
Venue
- FL-AAAI-22
Date
- 2022
Byzantine-resilient Federated Learning via Gradient Memorization
Chen Chen
Yuchen Liu*
Fangzhao Wu*
Chaochao Chen*
Gang Chen*
* External authors
FL-AAAI-22
2022
Abstract
Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-aware learning framework by enabling a multitude of participants to jointly construct models without collecting their private training data. However, federated learning has exhibited vulnerabilities to Byzantine attacks. Many existing methods defend against such Byzantine attacks by monitoring the gradients of clients in the current round, i.e., gradients in one round. Recent works have demonstrated that such naïve methods can hardly achieve satisfying performance. Defenses based on one-round gradients could be compromised by adding a small well-crafted bias to the benign gradients, due to the high variance of one-round (benign) gradients. To address this problem, we propose a new Average of Gradients (AG) framework, which detects Byzantine attacks with the average of multi-round gradients (i.e., gradients across multiple rounds). We theoretically show that our AG framework leads to lower variance of the benign gradients, and thus can reduce the effects of Byzantine attacks. Experiments on various real-world datasets verify the efficacy of our AG framework.
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