Chinese Journal of Network and Information Security ›› 2023, Vol. 9 ›› Issue (3): 113-122.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.2096-109x.2023043

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Privacy-enhanced federated learning scheme based on generative adversarial networks

Feng YU1,2, Qingxin LIN3, Hui LIN1,2, Xiaoding WANG1,2   

  1. 1 College of Computer and Cyber Security, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350017, China
    2 Engineering Research Center of Cyber Security and Education Informatization, Fujian Province University, Fuzhou 350117, China
    3 Zhicheng College, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China
  • Revised:2022-08-30 Online:2023-06-25 Published:2023-06-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1905211);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61702103);The Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province(2020J01167);The Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province(2020J01169)

Abstract:

Federated learning, a distributed machine learning paradigm, has gained a lot of attention due to its inherent privacy protection capability and heterogeneous collaboration.However, recent studies have revealed a potential privacy risk known as “gradient leakage”, where the gradients can be used to determine whether a data record with a specific property is included in another participant’s batch, thereby exposing the participant’s training data.Current privacy-enhanced federated learning methods may have drawbacks such as reduced accuracy, computational overhead, or new insecurity factors.To address this issue, a differential privacy-enhanced generative adversarial network model was proposed, which introduced an identifier into vanilla GAN, thus enabling the input data to be approached while satisfying differential privacy constraints.Then this model was applied to the federated learning framework, to improve the privacy protection capability without compromising model accuracy.The proposed method was verified through simulations under the client/server (C/S) federated learning architecture and was found to balance data privacy and practicality effectively compared with the DP-SGD method.Besides, the usability of the proposed model was theoretically analyzed under a peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, and future research work was discussed.

Key words: federated learning, gradient leakage, privacy enhancement, generative adversarial network, differential privacy

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