Privacy preserving and secure robust federated learning: A survey

Abstract

Summary Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution to address the challenges posed by data silos and the need for global data fusion. It offers a distributed machine learning framework with privacy‐preserving features, allowing model training without the need to collect user data. However, FL also presents significant security and privacy threats that hinder its widespread adoption. The requirements of privacy and security in FL are inherently conflicting. Privacy necessitates the concealment of individual client updates, while security requires the disclosure of client updates to detect anomalies. While most existing research focused on the privacy and security aspects of FL, very few studies have addressed the compatibility of these two demands. In this work, we aim to bridge this gap by proposing a comprehensive defense scheme that ensures privacy, security, and compatibility in FL. We categorize the existing literature into two key directions: privacy defense and security defense. Privacy defense includes methods based on additive masks, differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, and trusted execution environment, whereas security defense encompasses distance‐, performance‐, clustering‐, and similarity‐based anomaly detection techniques and statistical information‐based anomaly update bypassing techniques when the server is trusted and privacy‐compatible anomaly update detection techniques when the server is not trusted. In addition, this article prese…