Title
Unleashing the Tiger: Inference Attacks on Split Learning
Abstract
ABSTRACTWe investigate the security of split learning---a novel collaborative machine learning framework that enables peak performance by requiring minimal resource consumption. In the present paper, we expose vulnerabilities of the protocol and demonstrate its inherent insecurity by introducing general attack strategies targeting the reconstruction of clients' private training sets. More prominently, we show that a malicious server can actively hijack the learning process of the distributed model and bring it into an insecure state that enables inference attacks on clients' data. We implement different adaptations of the attack and test them on various datasets as well as within realistic threat scenarios. We demonstrate that our attack can overcome recently proposed defensive techniques aimed at enhancing the security of the split learning protocol. Finally, we also illustrate the protocol's insecurity against malicious clients by extending previously devised attacks for Federated Learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3460120.3485259
Computer and Communications Security
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Collaborative learning, ML Security, Deep Learning
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
19
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dario Pasquini111.02
Giuseppe Ateniese24380254.66
Massimo Bernaschi350464.27