@inproceedings{
duan2024reimagining,
title={Reimagining Mutual Information for Enhanced Defense against Data Leakage in Collaborative Inference},
author={Lin Duan and Jingwei Sun and Jinyuan Jia and Yiran Chen and Maria Gorlatova},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=tdZLKY9usl}
}
Edge-cloud collaborative inference empowers resource-limited IoT devices to support deep learning applications without disclosing their raw data to the cloud server, thus protecting user's data. Nevertheless, prior research has shown that collaborative inference still results in the exposure of input and predictions from edge devices. To defend against such data leakage in collaborative inference, we introduce InfoScissors, a defense strategy designed to reduce the mutual information between a model's intermediate outcomes and the device's input and predictions. We evaluate our defense on several datasets in the context of diverse attacks. Besides the empirical comparison, we provide a theoretical analysis of the inadequacies of recent defense strategies that also utilize mutual information, particularly focusing on those based on the Variational Information Bottleneck (VIB) approach. We illustrate the superiority of our method and offer a theoretical analysis of it.
Reimagining Mutual Information for Enhanced Defense against Data Leakage in Collaborative Inference
Lin Duan Jingwei Sun Jinyuan Jia Yiran Chen Maria Gorlatova