RoFL: Attestable Robustness for Secure Federated Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03311v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 15:42:49 GMT
• Title: RoFL: Attestable Robustness for Secure Federated Learning
• Authors: Lukas Burkhalter, Hidde Lycklama \`a Nijeholt, Alexander Viand, Nicolas K\"uchler, Anwar Hithnawi
• Abstract summary: Federated Learning allows a large number of clients to train a joint model without the need to share their private data. To ensure the confidentiality of the client updates, Federated Learning systems employ secure aggregation. We present RoFL, a secure Federated Learning system that improves robustness against malicious clients.
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• Abstract: Federated Learning is an emerging decentralized machine learning paradigm that allows a large number of clients to train a joint model without the need to share their private data. Participants instead only share ephemeral updates necessary to train the model. To ensure the confidentiality of the client updates, Federated Learning systems employ secure aggregation; clients encrypt their gradient updates, and only the aggregated model is revealed to the server. Achieving this level of data protection, however, presents new challenges to the robustness of Federated Learning, i.e., the ability to tolerate failures and attacks. Unfortunately, in this setting, a malicious client can now easily exert influence on the model behavior without being detected. As Federated Learning is being deployed in practice in a range of sensitive applications, its robustness is growing in importance. In this paper, we take a step towards understanding and improving the robustness of secure Federated Learning. We start this paper with a systematic study that evaluates and analyzes existing attack vectors and discusses potential defenses and assesses their effectiveness. We then present RoFL, a secure Federated Learning system that improves robustness against malicious clients through input checks on the encrypted model updates. RoFL extends Federated Learning's secure aggregation protocol to allow expressing a variety of properties and constraints on model updates using zero-knowledge proofs. To enable RoFL to scale to typical Federated Learning settings, we introduce several ML and cryptographic optimizations specific to Federated Learning. We implement and evaluate a prototype of RoFL and show that realistic ML models can be trained in a reasonable time while improving robustness.

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