Boosting Privately: Federated Extreme Gradient Boosting for Mobile Crowdsensing
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Recently, Google and other 24 institutions proposed a series of open challenges towards federated learning (FL), which include application expansion and homomorphic encryption (HE). The former aims to expand the applicable machine learning models of FL. The latter focuses on who holds the secret key when applying HE to FL. For the naive HE scheme, the server is set to master the secret key. Such a setting causes a serious problem that if the server does not conduct aggregation before decryption, a chance is left for the server to access the user’s update. Inspired by the two challenges, we propose FEDXGB, a federated extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) scheme supporting forced aggregation. FEDXGB mainly achieves the following two breakthroughs. First, FEDXGB involves a new HE based secure aggregation scheme for FL. By combining the advantages of secret sharing and homomorphic encryption, the algorithm can solve the second challenge mentioned above, and is robust to the user dropout. Then, FEDXGB extends FL to a new machine learning model by applying the secure aggregation scheme to the classification and regression tree building of XGBoost. Moreover, we conduct a comprehensive theoretical analysis and extensive experiments to evaluate the security, effectiveness, and efficiency of FEDXGB. The results indicate that FEDXGB achieves less than 1% accuracy loss compared with the original XGBoost, and can provide about 23.9% runtime and 33.3% communication reduction for HE based model update aggregation of FL.
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All FL privacy preserved algorithms are designed such that clients will have a dataset containing almost the same features.
“More probably, all the FL privacy preserved algorithms are designed in such a manner that the clients will have a dataset containing almost the same features [64], [65].”
From Federated Learning for Privacy Preservation in Smart Healthcare Systems: A Comprehensive Survey (2023) · cites this paper as [64]
The FEDXGB framework can provide a computation and communication cost reduction with negligible performance loss.
“The performance evaluation under both ADULT and MNIST datasets show that the FEDXGB framework can provide a computation and communication cost reduction with negligible performance loss.”
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- Authors
- Liu, Y., Ma, Z., Liu, X., Ma, S., Nepal, S., Deng, R. H., & Ren, K.
- Affiliations
- Xidian University (CN)
- Fuzhou University (CN)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
- Singapore Management University (SG)
- Zhejiang University (CN)
- Venue
- 2020 IEEE 40th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2020-11
- Pages
- 1-11
- OpenAlex
- W3133312630
- Cited by
- 93
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 5.06
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) (publishedVersion)
- Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge (InK) (Singapore Management University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Cryptography and Data Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
- Keywords
- federated learning, extreme gradient boosting, homomorphic encryption, secure aggregation, secret sharing, mobile crowdsensing, privacy-preserving machine learning, communication efficiency
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