A Knowledge Distillation-Based Backdoor Attack in Federated Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06176v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 08:52:56 GMT
• Title: A Knowledge Distillation-Based Backdoor Attack in Federated Learning
• Authors: Yifan Wang, Wei Fan, Keke Yang, Naji Alhusaini, Jing Li
• Abstract summary: Adversarial Knowledge Distillation(ADVKD) is a method combine knowledge distillation with backdoor attack in Federated Learning (FL) We show that ADVKD can not only reach a higher attack success rate, but also successfully bypass the defenses when other methods fails.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is a novel framework of decentralized machine learning. Due to the decentralized feature of FL, it is vulnerable to adversarial attacks in the training procedure, e.g. , backdoor attacks. A backdoor attack aims to inject a backdoor into the machine learning model such that the model will make arbitrarily incorrect behavior on the test sample with some specific backdoor trigger. Even though a range of backdoor attack methods of FL has been introduced, there are also methods defending against them. Many of the defending methods utilize the abnormal characteristics of the models with backdoor or the difference between the models with backdoor and the regular models. To bypass these defenses, we need to reduce the difference and the abnormal characteristics. We find a source of such abnormality is that backdoor attack would directly flip the label of data when poisoning the data. However, current studies of the backdoor attack in FL are not mainly focus on reducing the difference between the models with backdoor and the regular models. In this paper, we propose Adversarial Knowledge Distillation(ADVKD), a method combine knowledge distillation with backdoor attack in FL. With knowledge distillation, we can reduce the abnormal characteristics in model result from the label flipping, thus the model can bypass the defenses. Compared to current methods, we show that ADVKD can not only reach a higher attack success rate, but also successfully bypass the defenses when other methods fails. To further explore the performance of ADVKD, we test how the parameters affect the performance of ADVKD under different scenarios. According to the experiment result, we summarize how to adjust the parameter for better performance under different scenarios. We also use several methods to visualize the effect of different attack and explain the effectiveness of ADVKD.

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