Little is Enough: Improving Privacy by Sharing Labels in Federated Semi-Supervised Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05696v3
• Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 11:16:54 GMT
• Title: Little is Enough: Improving Privacy by Sharing Labels in Federated Semi-Supervised Learning
• Authors: Amr Abourayya, Jens Kleesiek, Kanishka Rao, Erman Ayday, Bharat Rao, Geoff Webb, Michael Kamp,
• Abstract summary: In many critical applications, sensitive data is inherently distributed and cannot be centralized due to privacy concerns. Most of these approaches either share local model parameters, soft predictions on a public dataset, or a combination of both. This, however, still discloses private information and restricts local models to those that lend themselves to training via gradient-based methods. We propose to share only hard labels on a public unlabeled dataset, and use a consensus over the shared labels as a pseudo-labeling to be used by clients.
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• Abstract: In many critical applications, sensitive data is inherently distributed and cannot be centralized due to privacy concerns. A wide range of federated learning approaches have been proposed in the literature to train models locally at each client without sharing their sensitive local data. Most of these approaches either share local model parameters, soft predictions on a public dataset, or a combination of both. This, however, still discloses private information and restricts local models to those that lend themselves to training via gradient-based methods. To reduce the amount of shared information, we propose to share only hard labels on a public unlabeled dataset, and use a consensus over the shared labels as a pseudo-labeling to be used by clients. The resulting federated co-training approach empirically improves privacy substantially, without compromising on model quality. At the same time, it allows us to use local models that do not lend themselves to the parameter aggregation used in federated learning, such as (gradient boosted) decision trees, rule ensembles, and random forests.

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