An overview of implementing security and privacy in federated learning

Abstract

Federated learning has received a great deal of research attention recently,with privacy protection becoming a key factor in the development of artificial intelligence. Federated learning is a special kind of distributed learning framework, which allows multiple users to participate in model training while ensuring that their privacy is not compromised; however, this paradigm is still vulnerable to security and privacy threats from various attackers. This paper focuses on the security and privacy threats related to federated learning. First, we analyse the current research and development status of federated learning through use of the CiteSpace literature search tool. Next, we describe the basic concepts and threat models, and then analyse the security and privacy vulnerabilities within current federated learning architectures. Finally, the directions of development in this area are further discussed in the context of current advanced defence solutions, for which we provide a summary and comparison.