Federated f-Differential Privacy

Federated learning (FL) is a training paradigm where the clients collaboratively learn models by repeatedly sharing information without compromising much on the privacy of their local sensitive data. In this paper, we introduce federated f-differential privacy, a new notion specifically tailored to the federated setting, based on the framework of Gaussian differential privacy. Federated f-differential privacy operates on record level : it provides the privacy guarantee on each individual record of one client's data against adversaries. We then propose a generic private federated learning framework PriFedSync that accommodates a large family of state-of-the-art FL algorithms, which provably achieves federated f-differential privacy. Finally, we empirically demonstrate the trade-off between privacy guarantee and prediction performance for models trained by PriFedSync in computer vision tasks.

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Federated learning is a training paradigm where clients collaboratively learn models while protecting the privacy of their local sensitive data. This paper introduces federated f-differential privacy and proposes a private federated learning framework PriFedSync which achieves privacy guarantee successfully.