Authors: Rathod Neha, Mojidra kirtika, khandhediya Isha, Harkishan sir
Abstract: Federated Learning (FL), was created by McMahan et al (14), has become of interest because it offers a decentralized machine learning framework for developing large scale ML models. This allows many users (or clients) to collaborate on training a shared model while retaining control of their own data. FL is ultimately designed to provide a solution to the conflict between the data demands of machine learning systems and the desire of individuals/companies to keep their personal and commercial data private. This paper is a review of the privacy and confidentiality aspects of Federated Learning. A critical review of the fundamental algorithms used in FL, possible attacks against FL systems, and the four primary techniques for enhancing privacy in FL; Differential Privacy (DP), Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC), Homomorphic Encryption (HE), and hardware based Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), is provided. We will review aggregation protocols, determine the strength of FL systems against poisoning and inference attacks, and compare various FL systems implemented in three industries; healthcare, mobile communication and finance. A detailed review of FL reveals research issues related to; statistical heterogeneity, communication overhead, system heterogeneity and fairness. Finally, this review presents a prioritized set of research objectives for the next ten years, with an emphasis on situating FL within the larger context of privacy-preserving ML and potential regulatory developments.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19878825
