Information-theoretic privacy in federated submodel learning

We consider information-theoretic privacy in federated submodel learning, where a global server has multiple submodels. Compared to the privacy considered in the conventional federated submodel learning where secure aggregation is adopted for ensuring privacy, information-theoretic privacy provides...

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Main Authors: Minchul Kim, Jungwoo Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-06-01
Series:ICT Express
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405959522000297
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Summary:We consider information-theoretic privacy in federated submodel learning, where a global server has multiple submodels. Compared to the privacy considered in the conventional federated submodel learning where secure aggregation is adopted for ensuring privacy, information-theoretic privacy provides the stronger protection on submodel selection by the local machine. We propose an achievable scheme that partially adopts the conventional private information retrieval (PIR) scheme that achieves the minimum amount of download. With respect to computation and communication overhead, we compare the achievable scheme with a naïve approach for federated submodel learning with information-theoretic privacy.
ISSN:2405-9595