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A Novel Attribute Reconstruction Attack in Federated Learning

Lingjuan Lyu

Chen Chen

FTL-IJCAI-2021

2021

Abstract

Federated learning (FL) emerged as a promising learning paradigm to enable a multitude of partici- pants to construct a joint ML model without expos- ing their private training data. Existing FL designs have been shown to exhibit vulnerabilities which can be exploited by adversaries both within and outside of the system to compromise data privacy. However, most current works conduct attacks by leveraging gradients on a small batch of data, which is less practical in FL. In this work, we consider a more practical and interesting scenario in which partici- pants share their epoch-averaged gradients (share gradients after at least 1 epoch of local training) rather than per-example or small batch-averaged gradients as in previous works. We perform the first systematic evaluation of attribute reconstruction at- tack (ARA) launched by the malicious server in the FL system, and empirically demonstrate that the shared epoch-averaged local model gradients can reveal sensitive attributes of local training data of any victim participant. To achieve this goal, we de- velop a more effective and efficient gradient match- ing based method called cos-matching to reconstruct the training data attributes. We evaluate our attacks on a variety of real-world datasets, scenarios, as- sumptions. Our experiments show that our proposed method achieves better attribute attack performance than most existing baselines.

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