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On the (In)security of Peer-to-Peer Decentralized Machine Learning

Pasquini, Dario  
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Raynal, Mathilde  
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Troncoso, Carmela  
January 1, 2023
2023 Ieee Symposium On Security And Privacy, Sp
44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

In this work, we carry out the first, in-depth, privacy analysis of Decentralized Learning-a collaborative machine learning framework aimed at addressing the main limitations of federated learning. We introduce a suite of novel attacks for both passive and active decentralized adversaries. We demonstrate that, contrary to what is claimed by decentralized learning proposers, decentralized learning does not offer any security advantage over federated learning. Rather, it increases the attack surface enabling any user in the system to perform privacy attacks such as gradient inversion, and even gain full control over honest users' local model. We also show that, given the state of the art in protections, privacy-preserving configurations of decentralized learning require fully connected networks, losing any practical advantage over the federated setup and therefore completely defeating the objective of the decentralized approach.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/SP46215.2023.00175
Web of Science ID

WOS:001035501500022

Author(s)
Pasquini, Dario  
Raynal, Mathilde  
Troncoso, Carmela  
Date Issued

2023-01-01

Publisher

IEEE COMPUTER SOC

Publisher place

Los Alamitos

Published in
2023 Ieee Symposium On Security And Privacy, Sp
ISBN of the book

978-1-6654-9336-9

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Start page

418

End page

436

Subjects

Computer Science, Information Systems

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Computer Science, Theory & Methods

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Computer Science

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collaborative machine learning

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privacy attacks

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peer-to-peer systems

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL units
SPRING  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

San Francisco, CA

May 21-25, 2023

Available on Infoscience
September 11, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/200450
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