Efficient Differentially Private Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning via Hardness of Learning with Errors [article]

Timothy Stevens, Christian Skalka, Christelle Vincent, John Ring, Samuel Clark, Joseph Near
2021 arXiv   pre-print
Federated machine learning leverages edge computing to develop models from network user data, but privacy in federated learning remains a major challenge. Techniques using differential privacy have been proposed to address this, but bring their own challenges – many require a trusted third party or else add too much noise to produce useful models. Recent advances in secure aggregation using multiparty computation eliminate the need for a third party, but are computationally expensive especially
more » ... at scale. We present a new federated learning protocol that leverages a novel differentially private, malicious secure aggregation protocol based on techniques from Learning With Errors. Our protocol outperforms current state-of-the art techniques, and empirical results show that it scales to a large number of parties, with optimal accuracy for any differentially private federated learning scheme.
arXiv:2112.06872v1 fatcat:k2cbkzojcvfybabfhzttk6gk2i