Title
Citadel: Protecting Data Privacy and Model Confidentiality for Collaborative Learning
Abstract
ABSTRACTMany organizations own data but have limited machine learning expertise (data owners). On the other hand, organizations that have expertise need data from diverse sources to train truly generalizable models (model owners). With the advancement of machine learning (ML) and its growing awareness, the data owners would like to pool their data and collaborate with model owners, such that both entities can benefit from the obtained models. In such a collaboration, the data owners want to protect the privacy of its training data, while the model owners desire the confidentiality of the model and the training method that may contain intellectual properties. Existing private ML solutions, such as federated learning and split learning, cannot simultaneously meet the privacy requirements of both data and model owners. We present Citadel, a scalable collaborative ML system that protects both data and model privacy in untrusted infrastructures equipped with Intel SGX. Citadel performs distributed training across multiple training enclaves running on behalf of data owners and an aggregator enclave on behalf of the model owner. Citadel establishes a strong information barrier between these enclaves by zero-sum masking and hierarchical aggregation to prevent data/model leakage during collaborative training. Compared with existing SGX-protected systems, Citadel achieves better scalability and stronger privacy guarantees for collaborative ML. Cloud deployment with various ML models shows that Citadel scales to a large number of enclaves with less than 1.73X slowdown.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3472883.3486998
International Conference on Management of Data
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
2
0.38
References 
Authors
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chengliang Zhang152.11
Junzhe Xia220.72
Baichen Yang320.72
Huancheng Puyang420.38
Wei Wang533832.88
Ruichuan Chen620518.95
Istemi Ekin Akkus720.38
Paarijaat Aditya820.38
feng yan9407.98