The Distributed Discrete Gaussian Mechanism for Federated Learning with Secure Aggregation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06387v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:20:18 GMT
• Title: The Distributed Discrete Gaussian Mechanism for Federated Learning with Secure Aggregation
• Authors: Peter Kairouz and Ziyu Liu and Thomas Steinke
• Abstract summary: We present a comprehensive end-to-end system, which appropriately discretizes the data and adds discrete Gaussian noise before performing secure aggregation. Our theoretical guarantees highlight the complex tension between communication, privacy, and accuracy.
• Score: 28.75998313625891
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We consider training models on private data that is distributed across user devices. To ensure privacy, we add on-device noise and use secure aggregation so that only the noisy sum is revealed to the server. We present a comprehensive end-to-end system, which appropriately discretizes the data and adds discrete Gaussian noise before performing secure aggregation. We provide a novel privacy analysis for sums of discrete Gaussians. We also analyze the effect of rounding the input data and the modular summation arithmetic. Our theoretical guarantees highlight the complex tension between communication, privacy, and accuracy. Our extensive experimental results demonstrate that our solution is essentially able to achieve a comparable accuracy to central differential privacy with 16 bits of precision per value.

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