Key Protected Classification for GAN Attack Resilient Collaborative LearningDownload PDF

15 Feb 2018 (modified: 15 Feb 2018)ICLR 2018 Conference Blind SubmissionReaders: Everyone
Abstract: Large-scale publicly available datasets play a fundamental role in training deep learning models. However, large-scale datasets are difficult to collect in problems that involve processing of sensitive information. Collaborative learning techniques provide a privacy-preserving solution in such cases, by enabling training over a number of private datasets that are not shared by their owners. Existing collaborative learning techniques, combined with differential privacy, are shown to be resilient against a passive adversary which tries to infer the training data only from the model parameters. However, recently, it has been shown that the existing collaborative learning techniques are vulnerable to an active adversary that runs a GAN attack during the learning phase. In this work, we propose a novel key-based collaborative learning technique that is resilient against such GAN attacks. For this purpose, we present a collaborative learning formulation in which class scores are protected by class-specific keys, and therefore, prevents a GAN attack. We also show that very high dimensional class-specific keys can be utilized to improve robustness against attacks, without increasing the model complexity. Our experimental results on two popular datasets, MNIST and AT&T Olivetti Faces, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique against the GAN attack. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed approach is the first collaborative learning formulation that effectively tackles an active adversary, and, unlike model corruption or differential privacy formulations, our approach does not inherently feature a trade-off between model accuracy and data privacy.
Keywords: privacy preserving deep learning, collaborative learning, adversarial attack
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