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Abstract
Federated learning is a computing paradigm that enhances privacy by enabling
multiple parties to collaboratively train a machine learning model without
revealing personal data. However, current research indicates that traditional
federated learning platforms are unable to ensure privacy due to privacy leaks
caused by the interchange of gradients. To achieve privacy-preserving federated
learning, integrating secure aggregation mechanisms is essential.
Unfortunately, existing solutions are vulnerable to recently demonstrated
inference attacks such as the disaggregation attack. This paper proposes
TAPFed, an approach for achieving privacy-preserving federated learning in the
context of multiple decentralized aggregators with malicious actors. TAPFed
uses a proposed threshold functional encryption scheme and allows for a certain
number of malicious aggregators while maintaining security and privacy. We
provide formal security and privacy analyses of TAPFed and compare it to
various baselines through experimental evaluation. Our results show that TAPFed
offers equivalent performance in terms of model quality compared to
state-of-the-art approaches while reducing transmission overhead by 29%-45%
across different model training scenarios. Most importantly, TAPFed can defend
against recently demonstrated inference attacks caused by curious aggregators,
which the majority of existing approaches are susceptible to.