Blades: A Unified Benchmark Suite for Byzantine Attacks and Defenses in Federated LearningShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Proceedings - 9th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation, IoTDI 2024Open AccessPages 158 - 169, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2024, p. 158-169Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Federated learning (FL) facilitates distributed training across different IoT and edge devices, safeguarding the privacy of their data. The inherent distributed structure of FL introduces vulnerabilities, especially from adversarial devices aiming to skew local updates to their advantage. Despite the plethora of research focusing on Byzantine-resilient FL, the academic community has yet to establish a comprehensive benchmark suite, pivotal for impartial assessment and comparison of different techniques. This paper presents Blades, a scalable, extensible, and easily configurable benchmark suite that supports researchers and developers in efficiently implementing and validating novel strategies against baseline algorithms in Byzantine-resilient FL. Blades contains built-in implementations of representative attack and defense strategies and offers a user-friendly interface that seamlessly integrates new ideas. Using Blades, we re-evaluate representative attacks and defenses on wide-ranging experimental configurations (approximately 1,500 trials in total). Through our extensive experiments, we gained new insights into FL robustness and highlighted previously overlooked limitations due to the absence of thorough evaluations and comparisons of baselines under various attack settings. We maintain the source code and documents at https://github.com/lishenghui/blades.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2024. p. 158-169
Keywords [en]
Academic community; Benchmark suites; Byzantine attacks; Distributed learning; Distributed structures; Federated learning; IoT; Neural-networks; Novel strategies; Robustness; Internet of things
National Category
Computer and Information Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-74878DOI: 10.1109/IoTDI61053.2024.00018Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85196568437ISBN: 9798350370256 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-74878DiVA, id: diva2:1890423
Conference
9th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation, IoTDI 2024
Note
This research was supported by the RGC General ResearchFunds No. 17203320 and No. 17209822 from Hong Kong, theSwedish Research Council project grant No. 2017-04543, andHKU-TCL joint research centre for artificial intelligence seedfunding.
2024-08-192024-08-192024-08-19Bibliographically approved