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The Privacy Power of Correlated Noise in Decentralized Learning

Allouah, Youssef  
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Koloskova, Anastasiia  
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El Firdoussi, Aymane
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2024
The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024)

Decentralized learning is appealing as it enables the scalable usage of large amounts of distributed data and resources (without resorting to any central entity), while promoting privacy since every user minimizes the direct exposure of their data. Yet, without additional precautions, curious users can still leverage models obtained from their peers to violate privacy. In this paper, we propose Decor, a variant of decentralized SGD with differential privacy (DP) guarantees. Essentially, in Decor, users securely exchange randomness seeds in one communication round to generate pairwise-canceling correlated Gaussian noises, which are injected to protect local models at every communication round. We theoretically and empirically show that, for arbitrary connected graphs, Decor matches the central DP optimal privacy-utility trade-off. We do so under SecLDP, our new relaxation of local DP, which protects all user communications against an external eavesdropper and curious users, assuming that every pair of connected users shares a secret, i.e., an information hidden to all others. The main theoretical challenge is to control the accumulation of non-canceling correlated noise due to network sparsity. We also propose a companion SecLDP privacy accountant for public use.

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conference paper
DOI
10.48550/arXiv.2405.01031
ArXiv ID

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01031

Author(s)
Allouah, Youssef  
Koloskova, Anastasiia  
El Firdoussi, Aymane
Jaggi, Martin  
Guerraoui, Rachid  
Date Issued

2024

Publisher

PMLR

Published in
The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Volume

235

Subjects

Differential Privacy

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Machine Learning

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Distributed Optimization

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EPFL units
DCL  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024)

Vienna, Austria

July 21-27, 2024

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June 14, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/208519
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