Erdogan, EgeKüpçü, AlptekinÇiçek, A. Ercüment2023-02-262023-02-262022-11-0797814503-98732http://hdl.handle.net/11693/111764Conference Name: 21st Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, WPES 2022Date of Conference: 7 November 2022Distributed deep learning frameworks such as split learning provide great benefits with regards to the computational cost of training deep neural networks and the privacy-aware utilization of the collective data of a group of data-holders. Split learning, in particular, achieves this goal by dividing a neural network between a client and a server so that the client computes the initial set of layers, and the server computes the rest. However, this method introduces a unique attack vector for a malicious server attempting to steal the client's private data: the server can direct the client model towards learning any task of its choice, e.g. towards outputting easily invertible values. With a concrete example already proposed (Pasquini et al., CCS '21), such training-hijacking attacks present a significant risk for the data privacy of split learning clients. In this paper, we propose SplitGuard, a method by which a split learning client can detect whether it is being targeted by a training-hijacking attack or not. We experimentally evaluate our method's effectiveness, compare it with potential alternatives, and discuss in detail various points related to its use. We conclude that SplitGuard can effectively detect training-hijacking attacks while minimizing the amount of information recovered by the adversaries. © 2022 Owner/Author.EnglishData privacyMachine learningModel inversionSplit learningConference Paper10.1145/3559613.3563198