@inproceedings{
li2023exploring,
title={Exploring User-level Gradient Inversion with a Diffusion Prior},
author={Zhuohang Li and Andrew Lowy and Jing Liu and Toshiaki Koike-Akino and Bradley A. Malin and Kieran Parsons and Ye Wang},
booktitle={International Workshop on Federated Learning in the Age of Foundation Models in Conjunction with NeurIPS 2023},
year={2023},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=lcElZPvMFp}
}
We explore user-level gradient inversion as a new attack surface in distributed learning. We first investigate existing attacks on their ability to make inferences about private information info beyond training data reconstruction. Motivated by the low reconstruction quality of existing methods, we propose a novel gradient inversion attack that applies a denoising diffusion model as a strong image prior in order to enhance recovery in the large batch setting. Unlike traditional attacks, which aim to reconstruct individual samples and suffer at large batch and image sizes, our approach instead aims to recover a representative image that captures the sensitive shared semantic information corresponding to the underlying user. Our experiments with face images demonstrate the ability of our methods to recover realistic facial images along with private user attributes.
Exploring User-level Gradient Inversion with a Diffusion Prior
Zhuohang Li Andrew Lowy Jing Liu Toshiaki Koike-Akino Bradley A. Malin Kieran Parsons Ye Wang