Deep Model Poisoning Attack on Federated Learning
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Federated learning is a novel distributed learning framework, which enables thousands of participants to collaboratively construct a deep learning model. In order to protect confidentiality of the training data, the shared information between server and participants are only limited to model parameters. However, this setting is vulnerable to model poisoning attack, since the participants have permission to modify the model parameters. In this paper, we perform systematic investigation for such threats in federated learning and propose a novel optimization-based model poisoning attack. Different from existing methods, we primarily focus on the effectiveness, persistence and stealth of attacks. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can not only achieve high attack success rate, but it is also stealthy enough to bypass two existing defense methods.
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The paper proposes an optimization-based model poisoning attack for federated learning that injects poisoning neurons into redundant network space and uses alternating minimization with regularization to improve effectiveness, persistence, and stealth. Experiments on MNIST and CIFAR-10 show high attack success rates and bypass of Krum and norm-bounded defenses.
Key findings
- The proposed attack achieves over 90% attack success rate on CIFAR-10 in the multiple-shot scenario, higher than the backdoor attack in [4]; it also achieves over 90% attack success rate on MNIST against the norm-bounded defense.
- In the single-shot scenario, the attack success rate of [4] drops dramatically, while the proposed attack falls slowly and retains higher main-task accuracy, indicating mitigation of catastrophic forgetting.
- The attack bypasses two defenses: Krum [16] and the norm-bounded defense [22]; Krum rejects the model update in some rounds, but the adversary still maintains high adversarial-task accuracy when not selected.
- Weight update distributions show malicious clients’ layer0, layer1, and layer3 differ from benign clients’, while layer2 is similar; the all-layer distribution is similar because layer2 has the most neurons.
Methods
- Threat model: a single non-colluding malicious client in federated learning can directly modify local model updates but cannot control aggregation or know benign participants’ local training; the goal is targeted misclassification while preserving test accuracy.
- Attack design: alternating minimization of a main task (clean data plus regularization to make malicious updates similar to benign updates) and an adversarial task (poisoning data plus Hessian-based structural regularization to avoid neurons important to the main task), then boosting the malicious update by factor n/η.
- Experiments: MNIST and CIFAR-10 with non-I.I.D. distributions, 10,000 test images, LetNet and ResNet, |S_t|/N of 10/20 and 10/50, internal epochs 5 and 10, |D_p| = 100; comparisons against backdoor attack [4] and model poisoning [8], and defenses [16,22].
Limitations
- Stated: time constraints greatly limit exploration; the malicious client must compute the Hessian matrix, which is non-trivial and time consuming, and a possible defense is to drop clients that cannot reply on time.
- Stated: future work is needed to explore additional attacks and efficient mechanisms (e.g., meta-learning) for finding neurons to inject adversarial tasks.
- Evident: evaluation is limited to MNIST and CIFAR-10 with specific architectures and parameters; effectiveness and persistence experiments assume the malicious client is selected each round; no real-world deployment or broader dataset evaluation is reported.
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The accuracy of the main task increases when the hyperparameter ρ2 is set to 0.
“The accuracy of main task increases when we set hyperparameter ρ 2 = 0, as shown in Figure 4.”
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The proposed deep model poisoning attack can retain a high attack success rate over a long period of aggregation in the single-shot attack scenario.
“Figure 5 illustrates that the proposed deep model poisoning attack has the capability to retain a high attack success rate over a long period of aggregation.”
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The deep model poisoning attack has better performance than other competing approaches [4,8].
“Furthermore, the deep model poisoning attack has better performance than other competing approaches [4,8].”
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- cites [8] Bhagoji, A.N., Chakraborty, S., Mittal, P., and Calo, S.B. (2019, January 9–15). Analyzing Federated Learning through an Adversarial Lens. Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, Long Beach, CA, USA.
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On CIFAR-10, the attack success rate of the proposed attack is higher than that of [4]'s attack.
“When it comes to the CIFAR-10, one can conclude from Figure 6b that the attack success rate for proposed is higher than that of [4]'s attack.”
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The attack method proposed in [8] is vulnerable when the malicious client uses a large poisoning dataset (e.g., Dp = 100).
“Even though the attack method proposed in [8] is claimed to be stealthy when D p = 1, it is vulnerable when the malicious client uses a large poisoning dataset (e.g., D p = 100 in our experiment).”
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When the poisoning model is not selected by Krum, the adversary can still maintain high accuracy for the adversarial task.
“Nevertheless, when the poisoning model is not selected by Krum, the adversary can still maintain high accuracy for adversarial task.”
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The proposed method is stealthy enough to bypass two existing defense methods.
“Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can not only achieve high attack success rate, but it is also stealthy enough to bypass two existing defense methods.”
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Extensive evaluation results empirically demonstrated that the proposed attack strategy outperformed the backdoor attacks by significantly improving performance in effectiveness, persistence, and robustness.
“Extensive evaluation results empirically demonstrated that our proposed attack strategy outperformed the backdoor attacks by significantly improving performance in effectiveness, persistence, and robustness.”
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The proposed attack algorithm retains a higher accuracy for the main task on the testing dataset than [4]'s attack.
“and, (2) retains a higher accuracy for the main task on the testing dataset.”
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The proposed method achieves a high attack success rate in numerical experiments.
“Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can not only achieve high attack success rate, but it is also stealthy enough to bypass two existing defense methods.”
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In the single-shot attack scenario, the attack success rate of [4]'s method drops dramatically compared with the proposed method.
“Besides, in a single-shot attack scenario, the attack success rate drop dramatically for [4]'s methods when compared with our method.”
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The proposed deep model poisoning attack can perform effectively on the adversarial task without degrading the accuracy of the main task in the multiple-shot attack scenario.
“In multiple-shot attack scenario, one can observe, from Figure 4, that the proposed attack can perform effectively adversarial task without degrading the accuracy of main task.”
- Also stated in: § 4.2. Effectiveness and Persistence of Attack · boosted
“Figure 4 demonstrates that the proposed deep model poisoning attack can achieve high attack success rate for D p , meanwhile keeping its accuracy for test images.”
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- Interpretationreasoning
The attacker concatenates the redundant neurons and joins them into an adversarial path that is persistent and robust under model aggregation.
“The attacker concatenates those neurons and joins them into an adversarial path, which is persistent and robust under model aggregation, as shown in Figure 3.”
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The addition of a regularization term is not sufficient to ensure that the malicious weight update is close to that of the benign agents, since there could be multiple local minima with similar loss values.
“It should be noted that the addition of a regularization term is not sufficient to ensure that the malicious weight update is close to that of the benign agents, since there could be multiple local minima with similar loss values.”
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The proposed attack methods do not rely on other clients' model updates.
“Because the proposed attack methods do not rely on other clients' model updates, our method still effective in this scenario.”
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By utilizing the regularization term in the objective function, the proposed method injects malicious neurons in the redundant space of the neural network.
“By utilizing the regularization term in objective function, we inject malicious neurons in redundant space of neural network.”
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The high performance of the proposed attack is mainly because poisoning neurons are embedded in the redundant space of a neural network.
“The main reason behind the high performance of proposed attack is that poisoning neurons are embedded in the redundant space of a neural network.”
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In federated learning, knowledge learnt by an adversarial task would be abruptly fine-tuned and lost as the central server aggregates model updates, making it hard to keep both persistence and effectiveness of a model poisoning attack.
“In the federated learning system, because knowledge learnt by adversarial task would be abruptly fine-tuned and lost as central server aggregating model updates, it is hard to keep both persistence and effectiveness of model poisoning attack.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim- Rests on an assumption: Catastrophic forgetting is an inevitable feature of neural network models when trained sequentially on multiple tasks.
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Explicit scaling up strategy boosts the value of neurons, resulting in a higher norm in model updates.
“However, explicit scaling up strategy boosts the value of neurons, resulting in the higher norm in model updates.”
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Papers [16] and [22] are recently proposed secure federated learning aggregation algorithms based on model similarity or weight distance metrics.
“Paper [16,22] are two recently proposed secure federated learning aggregation algorithms that are based on model similarity or weights distance metrics.”
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- cites [22] Sun, Z., Kairouz, P., Suresh, A.T., and McMahan, H.B. (2019). Can You Really Backdoor Federated Learning?. arXiv.
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Because layer2 has the most neurons, the overall weight update distribution for malicious clients is similar to that of benign clients.
“However, because layer2 has the most neurons, the weight update distribution for malicious is similar to that of benign clients in Figure 7e.”
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The constraint regularization term in Equation (3) has a bad impact on the main task.
“Therefore, the constraint regularization term in Equation ( 3) has bad impact on main task.”
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The weight constrained regularization term in Equation (2) makes the model update Δm similar to benign clients'.
“Moreover, weight constrained regularization term in Equation ( 2) makes the model update ∆ m similar to benign clients'.”
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The regularization term in Equation (2) constrains the model update, making the malicious client's model update similar to benign's in weights statistics.
“The regularization term that is shown in Equation (2) constrains model update, making the malicious client's model update similar to benign's in weights statistics.”
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The attacker avoids injecting poisoning neurons in positions that are particularly influential for the main task to mitigate catastrophic forgetting of the adversarial task.
“We want to avoid injecting poisoning neuron in positions that are particularly influential for main task in order to mitigate catastrophic forgetting of adversarial task.”
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The proposed model poisoning attack will not degrade the performance of the main task on the shared global model.
“Therefore, the proposed model poisoning attack will not degrade the performance of main task on the shared global model.”
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The deep model poisoning attack is stealthy enough to bypass the defense methods proposed in [16,22].
“One can observe from the experiment results that the deep model poisoning attack is stealthy enough to bypass the defense methods proposed in [16,22].”
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- cites [22] Sun, Z., Kairouz, P., Suresh, A.T., and McMahan, H.B. (2019). Can You Really Backdoor Federated Learning?. arXiv.
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- The authors state this as an assumption: The malicious client is selected by the central server each round.
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The proposed method puts forward a constrained loss function for the main task to bypass those defense methods in the central server.
“We put forward constrained loss function for main task in order to bypass those defense methods in the central server.”
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Embedding poisoning neurons in the redundant space reduces the probability of fine-tuning poisoning neurons during the training of the main task.
“This reduces the probability of fine-tuning poisoning neurons during the training of main task.”
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When the adversary alternately trains a mini-batch of poisoning data and clean data, the adversary can efficiently balance the main task and the adversarial task.
“When the adversary alternately trains a mini-batch of poisoning data and clean data, the adversary can efficiently balance main task and adversarial task.”
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The proposed optimization-based model poisoning attack injects poisoning neurons into the redundant space of a neural network to improve the persistence of the attack.
“In order to overcome the aforementioned limitations, we exploit model capacity and inject poisoning neurons in model redundant space to improve the persistence of attack.”
- Also stated in: § 3. Attack Methodology · plain
“The core idea behind our proposed method is that we want to embed poisoning neurons into the redundant space of a neural network under the guidance of optimizer to keep the stealth and persistence of an attack.”
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If the global model is attacked by adversarial techniques (e.g., backdoor, adversarial example), then the proposed attack can achieve better performance.
“As a result, if the global model is attacked by those techniques, then we can achieve better performance for our attack.”
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By utilizing the regularization terms, the attacker can construct an adversarial path that preserves the accuracy for both adversarial and main tasks under alternating minimization.
“By utilizing the regularization terms, the attacker can finally construct an adversarial path that preserves the accuracy for both adversarial and main tasks under alternating minimization.”
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The redundant space can be the optimal positions to inject an adversarial task.
“In other words, those neurons are the redundant space for main task in neural network, and it can be the optimal positions to inject adversarial task.”
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The proposed method is persistent to avoid catastrophic forgetting.
“In this paper, we propose a model poisoning attack in federated learning that is based on optimization, which is stealthy enough to bypass defense methods and persistent to avoid catastrophic forgetting.”
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Findingown dataFor the first four layers, the malicious clients' weight update distributions in layer0, layer1, and layer3 are different from benign clients', and only layer2 is similar to benign clients'.
“The malicious clients' layer0, layer1, and layer3 are different from benign clients', and only layer2 is similar to benign clients', as reported in Figure 7a-d.”
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Findingown dataThe proposed attack algorithm's attack success rate falls down slowly, indicating it is effective in mitigating catastrophic forgetting of the adversarial task.
“The proposed attack algorithm outperforms [4]' attack in two aspects: (1) the attack success rate falls down slowly, which means that the proposed attack is effective in mitigating catastrophic forgetting of adversarial task;”
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Findingown dataOn CIFAR-10, the proposed model poisoning attack achieves over 90% attack success rate for the adversarial task, higher than that of the backdoor attack [4].
“Even for the large dataset like CIFAR-10, the proposed model poisoning attack can achieve over 90% attack success rate for adversarial task, which is higher than that of [4].”
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FindingcitationKrum is effective in detecting aberrant models, and the model update of the proposed method is rejected in some rounds.
“Because Krum is effective in detecting aberrant models, the model update of proposed method is rejected in some rounds.”
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Findingown dataThe proposed deep model poisoning attack can bypass the norm bounded defense method and achieves over 90% attack success rate for MNIST.
“Our proposed deep model poisoning attack can bypass norm bounded defense method and achieves over 90% attack success rate for MNIST, as reported in Figure 6a.”
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FindingreasoningOur preliminary results show some promise of mitigation.
“While our preliminary results show some promise of mitigation, much more work is clearly needed to explore additional attacks.”
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Interpretationnone givenThe malicious client must compute the Hessian matrix during attack preparation, which is non-trivial and time consuming.
“The malicious client should compute the Hessian matrix during the preparation of an attack, which is non-trivial and time consuming.”
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InterpretationreasoningThe constraint regularization term in Equation (3) tends to update neurons not important to the main task, which explains why main task accuracy increases when ρ2=0.
“The main reason behind this phenomenon is that the constraint regularization term in Equation (3) tends to update neurons not”
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PremisecitationThe second derivative measures curvature of the loss function and can find the optimization direction of stochastic gradient descent (SGD).
“In one variable function, since second derivative measures curvature of loss function, the second derivative can find the optimization direction of stochastic gradient descent (SGD).”
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Interpretationnone givenThe effectiveness, persistence, and stealth of model poisoning attacks in federated learning is challenging because only a small fraction of clients' updates are selected each round.
“Because only a small fraction of the clients' updates will be selected each round, the effectiveness, persistence, and stealth is becoming more challenging for model poisoning attack in federated learning.”
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PremisereasoningFederated learning is vulnerable to model poisoning attacks because participants can modify model parameters.
“However, this setting is vulnerable to model poisoning attack, since the participants have permission to modify the model parameters.”
- Also stated in: § 1. Introduction · hedged
“Because the clients can fully control their private data and arbitrarily modify their local model, the malicious clients may leverage adversarial algorithm to perform targeted attack (e.g., backdoor attack [4][5][6], model poisoning attack [7][8][9] and data poisoning attack [10,11]), or untargeted attack (e.g., Byzantine failures [9,12]) and untargeted attack [13][14][15].”
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Interpretationown dataThe proposed attack method is persistent enough to keep its attack effect, so the attacker can still maintain a high attack success rate even if detected by a Byzantine-robust central server.
“Because the proposed attack method is persistent enough to keep its attack effect (See Figure 5), the attacker can still maintain a high attack success rate, even though it is detected by Byzantine-robust central server.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim- Rests on an assumption: The main idea behind Byzantine-robust defense methods is to detect abnormal weight updates and reject those models.
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PremisecitationThe authors of [22] proposed a norm bounded defense method that clips model updates using a threshold M.
“While, the authors of [22] proposed a norm bounded defense method, which clips model updates using a threshold M:”
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PremisecitationThe authors of [16] proposed the robust aggregation rule Krum.
“The authors of [16] proposed the robust aggregation rule referred to as Krum.”
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InterpretationreasoningBecause the proposed attack methods do not rely on other clients' model updates, the method is still effective in secure federated learning where model updates are encrypted.
“Because the proposed attack methods do not rely on other clients' model updates, our method still effective in this scenario.”
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InterpretationreasoningBoth alternating minimization and constrained regularization increase the stealth of a poisoning attack.
“In summary, both alternating minimization and constrained regularization increase the stealth of a poisoning attack.”
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InterpretationreasoningTime constraint greatly limits the amount of exploration possible in both the proposed attack mechanisms and further adaptive attacks.
“Time constraint greatly limits the amount of exploration that is possible in both the proposed attack mechanisms and further adaptive attacks.”
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InterpretationreasoningRedundant neurons are important for poisoning attack while having less correlation to the main task of federated learning.
“It should be noted that those redundant neurons are important for poisoning attack, while they have less correlation to the main task of federated learning.”
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InterpretationreasoningAlternating minimization makes it easy for the adversary to extract the malicious model update Δp, meaning only a small part of weights needs to be boosted.
“Besides, alternating minimization makes it easy for the adversary to extract malicious model update ∆ p , which means that we only need to boost a small part of weights.”
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PremisecitationSecure federated learning [45] is popular among the community due to concerns about information leakage.
“With the concern of information leakage, secure federated learning [45] is popular among the community.”
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PremisecitationThe machine learning community recently proposed several new federated learning methods that were claimed to be robust against Byzantine failures [17,44] of certain client devices.
“The machine learning community recently proposed several new federated learning methods that were claimed to be robust against Byzantine failures [17,44] of certain client devices.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim0 of 2 sources checked- cites [17] Yin, D., Chen, Y., Kannan, R., and Bartlett, P. (2018, January 10–15). Byzantine-robust distributed learning: Towards optimal statistical rates. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- cites [44] Cao, X., Fang, M., Liu, J., and Gong, N.Z. (2020). FLTrust: Byzantine-robust Federated Learning via Trust Bootstrapping. arXiv. source
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PremisecitationThose new secure federated learning techniques use the cryptography paradigm to encrypt model updates.
“Those new techniques use the cryptography paradigm to encrypt model updates.”
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The attacker cannot control the aggregation algorithm nor has knowledge of benign participants' local training.
“The attacker cannot control the aggregation algorithm, which is used to combine participants' model updates into the shared global model, nor does it have any knowledge of the benign participants' local training.”
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The malicious client is non-colluding and has no partner to exchange information.
“We assume a non-colluding malicious client, where the adversary has no partner to exchange any information.”
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Catastrophic forgetting is an inevitable feature of neural network models when trained sequentially on multiple tasks.
“catastrophic forgetting is an inevitable feature of neural network models, specifically when the network is trained sequentially on multiple tasks.”
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The attacker can directly influence the weights of the joint model and train in any way that benefits the attack.
“as defined in standard federated learning framework, the attacker can directly influence the weights of the joint model and train in any way that benefits the attack (e.g., adopting alternating minimization training strategy, introducing adversarial task).”
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The malicious client is selected by the central server each round.
“In this experiment, the malicious client is assumed to be selected each round”
“We make the assumption that the malicious client is selected by central server each round in order to evaluate the effectiveness and persistence of attack.”
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Only a small fraction of the clients' updates will be selected each round.
“Because only a small fraction of the clients' updates will be selected each round, the effectiveness, persistence, and stealth is becoming more challenging for model poisoning attack in federated learning.”
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The main idea behind Byzantine-robust defense methods is to detect abnormal weight updates and reject those models.
“The main idea behind the Byzantine-robust defense method is to detect abnormal weight updates and reject those models.”
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Adversarial techniques (e.g., backdoor, adversarial example) try to infer the model by creating a misleading minima.
“The adversarial techniques (e.g., backdoor, adversarial example) try to inference the model by creating a misleading minima.”
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The optimization-based model poisoning attack method can resist catastrophic forgetting in neural networks.
“Moreover, this method can resist catastrophic forgetting in neural networks.”
From Poisoning attacks in federated learning: A survey (2023) · cites this paper as [33]
The biggest problem with the optimization-based model poisoning attack approach is that malicious clients need to compute the Hessian matrix during preparing an attack, which is non-trivial and time-consuming.
“However, the biggest problem with this approach is that malicious clients need to compute the Hessian matrix during preparing an attack, which is non-trivial and time-consuming.”
From Poisoning attacks in federated learning: A survey (2023) · cites this paper as [33]
Model poisoning attacks tend to be more effective in practice than data poisoning attacks because they can directly modify local model parameters.
“However, model poisoning attacks tend to work better in practice because they can directly modify local model parameters [11], [23], [33], [40].”
From Poisoning attacks in federated learning: A survey (2023) · cites this paper as [33]
Xingchen et al. proposed an optimization-based model poisoning attack method that injects malicious neurons into the neural network's redundant space using the objective function's regularization term.
“Moreover, Xingchen et al. [33] proposed an optimizationbased model poisoning attack method.They injected malicious neurons into the neural network's redundant space using the objective function's regularization term.”
From Poisoning attacks in federated learning: A survey (2023) · cites this paper as [33]
Alternating minimization is a widely used stealth strategy for poisoning attacks.
“A widely used strategy is alternating minimization [28], [33].”
From Poisoning attacks in federated learning: A survey (2023) · cites this paper as [33]
Attackers can implement a more stealthy and persistent poisoning attack using redundant neurons, which requires the ability to modify model parameters directly.
“They can implement a more stealthy and persistent poisoning attack using these redundant neurons, which requires the ability to modify the model parameters directly.”
From Poisoning attacks in federated learning: A survey (2023) · cites this paper as [33]
Only a tiny fraction of neurons are changed during the training phase, while most neurons are close to zero.
“First, Xingchen et al. [33] found that only a tiny fraction of neurons were changed during the training phase, while most neurons were close to zero.”
From Poisoning attacks in federated learning: A survey (2023) · cites this paper as [33]
The alternating minimization approach decouples the poisoning attack target from the stealthiness target.
“The alternating minimization approach decouples the poisoning attack target from the stealthiness target.”
From Poisoning attacks in federated learning: A survey (2023) · cites this paper as [33]
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Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Byzantine-robust methods citation points to a ResNet paper
MinorThe discussion cites [44] as a Byzantine-robust federated learning method, but reference [44] is "Deep residual learning for image recognition."
“The machine learning community recently proposed several new federated learning methods that were claimed to be robust against Byzantine failures [17,44] of certain client devices.”
“44. He, K.; Zhang, X.; Ren, S.; Sun, J. Deep residual learning for image recognition.”
ResNet citation points to a stereo-matching paper
MinorThe experiment setup cites [43] for ResNet, but [43] is a paper on stereo matching. The reference list instead gives the deep residual learning paper as [44].
“For network architecture, we choose LetNet [42] and ResNet [43] for MNIST and CIFAR-10, respectively.”
“43. Zbontar, J.; LeCun, Y. Stereo matching by training a convolutional neural network to compare image patches.”
LetNet citation points to a continual-learning paper
MinorThe experiment setup cites reference [42] for LetNet, but [42] is titled "Continual Learning Through Synaptic Intelligence."
“For network architecture, we choose LetNet [42] and ResNet [43] for MNIST and CIFAR-10, respectively.”
“42. Zenke, F.; Poole, B.; Ganguli, S. Continual Learning Through Synaptic Intelligence.”
Continual-learning citation points to a Byzantine-learning paper
MinorReference [35] is included among examples of continual-learning studies, but its listed title concerns a vulnerability of distributed learning in Byzantium.
“This phenomenon is investigated in some previous continual learning studies (e.g., [35][36][37][38]), and it can be used in our adversarial training.”
“35. Mhamdi, E.M.E.; Guerraoui, R.; Rouault, S. The Hidden Vulnerability of Distributed Learning in Byzantium.”
Equation (2) is assigned to the wrong task
MinorThe model-update procedure calls Equation (2) the adversarial-task objective, but the paper identifies its loss as belonging to the main task; Equation (3) is presented as the adversarial-task objective.
“For each step i, the adversarial task's objective function is first minimized starting from Θ (when i = 1, Θ = G t ) using Equation ( 2), and then minimized with Equation (3).”
“where ρ 1 is a hyperparameter, L M means Cross-entropy loss for main task, and ∆ t ben denotes benign clients' averaged model updates.”
Funding statement conflicts with acknowledged grants
MinorThe acknowledgments say the work was supported by two grants and a provincial project, while the funding section says the research received no external funding.
“This work was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61803135 and Grant 61702150, and in part by the Key Research and Development Plan Project of Zhejiang Province under Grant 2017C01065.”
“Funding: This research received no external funding.”
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- Authors
- Zhou, X., Xu, M., Wu, Y., & Zheng, N.
- Affiliations
- Hangzhou Dianzi University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Xu, Ming
- Venue
- Future Internet
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021-03-14
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 73
- ISSN
- 1999-5903 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3136620885
- Semantic Scholar
- 1bdb7429302500aa559c4e1653543802365abc47
- Cited by
- 170
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 8
- FWCI
- 10.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Future Internet (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Natural Science Foundation of China; Key Research and Development Plan Project of Zhejiang Province (61803135, 61702150; 2017C01065)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
- Keywords
- federated learning, model poisoning, deep learning, attack stealth, attack success rate, defense evasion, data confidentiality
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