Inverse Solvability and Security with Applications to Federated Learning

Tomasz Piotrowski, Matthias Frey, Renato L. G. Cavalcante, Rafail Ismailov

Published 2022-11-25Version 1

We introduce the concepts of inverse solvability and security for a generic linear forward model and demonstrate how they can be applied to models used in federated learning. We provide examples of such models which differ in the resulting inverse solvability and security as defined in this paper. We also show how the large number of users participating in a given iteration of federated learning can be leveraged to increase both solvability and security. Finally, we discuss possible extensions of the presented concepts including the nonlinear case.