Aegis: Generative Gradient Masking for Privacy-Preserving Medical Federated Learning
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arXiv:2609.38339v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has become a foundational paradigm for multi-institutional medical AI, allowing hospitals and research centers to jointly train diagnostic models without exchanging patient records. This privacy promise, however, is increasingly contested: a malicious or honest-but-curious server can launch model inversion attacks (MIAs) that reconstruct private patient images directly from shared model updates, and recent scalable, closed-form attacks penetrate even secure aggregation at clinically realistic batch sizes. Existing defens
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.38339v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has become a foundational paradigm for multi-institutional medical AI, allowing hospitals and research centers to jointly train diagnostic models without exchanging patient records.
- This privacy promise, however, is increasingly contested: a malicious or honest-but-curious server can launch model inversion attacks (MIAs) that reconstruct private patient images directly from shared model updates, and recent scalable, closed-form attacks penetrate even secure aggregation at clinically realistic batch sizes.
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