Lightweight federated credit risk prediction method based on multi-strategy gradient compression

Luo Yangxia1,2
Zhao Jinlong1
1. School of Information, Xi'an University of finance and economics, Xi'an Shaanxi 710100, China
2. Computer Application and Information Security Research Center, Xi'an 710100, Shaanxi, China

Abstract

To address the dual challenges of high communication overhead and privacy leakage that the mainstream federated learning algorithm FedAvg faces in collaborative sensitive financial risk control data, as well as the issue of model convergence degradation caused by clipping distortion in traditional gradient compression and encryption schemes, this paper proposes a Sparse Coordinate Encoding and Lossless Aggregation Federated Learning framework(SCE-LA-FL) . Firstly, a one-dimensional convolutional neural network is employed to automatically extract high-dimensional financial features. A preprocessing mechanism combining feature normalization, gradient quantization, and Top-K sparsification achieves significant compression of gradient magnitudes. Secondly, a lossless aggregation mechanism based on coordinate matching is designed to eliminate secondary distortion introduced during server-side aggregation by conventional bit-packing techniques. Finally, the framework integrates with additive homomorphic encryption(Paillier) to selectively encrypt only the retained sparse update values. Experiments on the LendingClub and MNIST datasets demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves a communication compression ratio of 1.25 to 9.98 times. Under integrated encryption, the area under the curve(AUC) for defending against member inference attacks drops to 48.4, the mean squared error(MSE) against model inversion attacks increases to 52.3, and the consistency rate of model extraction attacks decreases to 9.4%. This framework significantly reduces communication overhead while maintaining model convergence performance, and consistently defends against privacy attacks, offering valuable insights for financial credit risk prediction.

Foundation Support

国家自然科学基金(62501430)
国家留学基金委资助项目([2025]23)
西安财经大学2025年研究生创新基金项目(25YC036)

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2026.04.0142
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Accepted Paper, Vol. 44, 2027 No. 1

Publish History

[2026-08-28] Accepted Paper

Cite This Article

罗养霞, 赵金龙. 多策略梯度压缩的轻量化联邦信用风险预测方法 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2027, 44 (1). (2026-09-14). https://doi.org/10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2026.04.0142. (Luo Yangxia, Zhao Jinlong. Lightweight federated credit risk prediction method based on multi-strategy gradient compression [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2027, 44 (1). (2026-09-14). https://doi.org/10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2026.04.0142. )

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