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面向具身强化学习私有轨迹重建的时序梯度反演
论文提出 TRACE,一种摊销式时序梯度反演攻击,可从分布式具身 RL 中每步上传的策略梯度自回归重建私有观测-动作轨迹序列。攻击利用两个被单帧方法忽略的结构信号:连续具身梯度间的跨时间相关性(以条件互信息界形式化),以及策略头梯度结构中的闭式动作恢复(证明在标准熵正则足够小时精确)。在留出具身场景上达到 18.8 dB PSNR、近完美动作恢复,单次重建耗时 3–4.5 ms。
AI推荐理由 提出 TRACE 时序梯度反演攻击,利用跨时间梯度相关性与策略头梯度结构从每步策略梯度中自回归重建具身 RL 的私有观测-动作轨迹,并给出条件互信息界与熵正则较小时动作精确恢复的证明;在留出场景达到 18.8 dB PSNR、近完美动作恢复、单次重建 3–4.5 ms。属于隐私攻击与具身智能交叉的新方法,有形式化分析与量化结果,但摘要未给出与单帧基线的完整对比细节。
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Computer Science > Machine Learning
arXiv:2609.30258v1 (cs)
[Submitted on 24 Sep 2026]
Title:Temporal Gradient Inversion for Private Trajectory Reconstruction in Embodied Reinforcement Learning
Authors:Sudip Bhujel, Shanghao Shi, Ruiquan Huang, Ning Zhang, Yang Xiao
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Abstract:Distributed learning in embodied reinforcement-learning agents offers a degree of privacy by retaining raw sensor data on-device and transmitting only policy gradients to the server. Yet temporal structure can amplify this leakage beyond single-frame attacks. We introduce Temporal Reconstruction Attack on Consecutive Encodings (TRACE), an amortized temporal gradient-inversion attack that autoregressively reconstructs the sequence of private observation-action trajectories from per-step policy-learning gradients. The attack exploits two structural signals ignored by prior single-frame methods: (i) cross-time correlation between successive embodied gradients, which we formalize via a conditional mutual-information bound, and (ii) closed-form action recovery from policy-head gradient structure, which we prove exact when standard entropy regularization is sufficiently small. On held-out embodied scenes, TRACE reaches $18.8$ dB PSNR with near-perfect action recovery at $3$-$4.5$ ms per reconstructed frame, dominating the learning-based baseline across all reconstruction metrics and exceeding optimization attacks while running orders of magnitude faster. Further evaluation demonstrates TRACE's broader applicability across recurrent, residual, and compact transformer victim architectures, multi-modal inputs, and larger discrete action spaces. Defense experiments suggest that protecting temporal gradient streams may require sequence-aware privacy mechanisms.
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