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Abstract
Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning (PPFL) has emerged as a secure
distributed Machine Learning (ML) paradigm that aggregates locally trained
gradients without exposing raw data. To defend against model poisoning threats,
several robustness-enhanced PPFL schemes have been proposed by integrating
anomaly detection. Nevertheless, they still face two major challenges: (1) the
reliance on heavyweight encryption techniques results in substantial
communication and computation overhead; and (2) single-strategy defense
mechanisms often fail to provide sufficient robustness against adaptive
adversaries. To overcome these challenges, we propose DP2Guard, a lightweight
PPFL framework that enhances both privacy and robustness. DP2Guard leverages a
lightweight gradient masking mechanism to replace costly cryptographic
operations while ensuring the privacy of local gradients. A hybrid defense
strategy is proposed, which extracts gradient features using singular value
decomposition and cosine similarity, and applies a clustering algorithm to
effectively identify malicious gradients. Additionally, DP2Guard adopts a trust
score-based adaptive aggregation scheme that adjusts client weights according
to historical behavior, while blockchain records aggregated results and trust
scores to ensure tamper-proof and auditable training. Extensive experiments
conducted on two public datasets demonstrate that DP2Guard effectively defends
against four advanced poisoning attacks while ensuring privacy with reduced
communication and computation costs.