Paper discusses methods to measure privacy in synthetic tabular data.
problem Lack of standard methods to quantify privacy in synthetic data.
method Discusses proposed quantification approaches for synthetic data privacy.
result Contributes to SD privacy standards and stimulates discussion.
QFNN-FFD uses quantum computing and FL for secure financial fraud detection.
problem Financial fraud detection in the financial sector.
method Quantum Federated Neural Network (QFNN-FFD) combining QML and FL.
result Achieves precision rates above 95% and robustness against noise.
DAISYnt evaluates synthetic data quality and privacy in regulated domains.
problem Balancing data quality and privacy in regulated domains.
method Developed a suite of advanced tests (DAISYnt) to evaluate synthetic data quality and privacy.
result DAISYnt sets a de facto standard for synthetic data evaluation in regulated domains.
AI enhances financial forecasting with challenges in regulation and privacy.
problem Challenges in integrating AI with financial services and regulations.
method Integration of AI technologies like deep learning and reinforcement learning.
result AI improves financial forecasting but faces regulatory and privacy issues.
SharedMF uses secret sharing to protect privacy in distributed recommendation systems.
problem Privacy issues in multi-source data for recommendation systems.
method Federated learning and secret sharing technology.
result SharedMF achieves faster execution speed and better data adaptability compared to homomorphic encryption methods.
The paper explores how to measure and optimize ad reach while maintaining user privacy.
problem Measuring ad reach while preserving user privacy in online advertising.
method Introduces k-anonymity and probabilistic discounting for frequency capping. result Privacy introduces a significant performance drop but with manageable costs.
Survey examines public views on facial recognition technology.
problem Public acceptance and privacy concerns with facial recognition.
method Cross-national survey of 4 countries.
result Public views vary significantly across countries.
Nowadays, machine learning based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technique has widely spread in smartphones, home devices, and public facilities. As convenient as this technology can be, a considerable security issue also raises -- the users' speech content might be exposed to malicious ASR monitoring and cause seve…
Enhanced stability improves privacy in machine learning.
problem Improving privacy in machine learning training while maintaining accuracy.
method Study of stability in private empirical risk minimization, focusing on strongly-convex loss functions and uniform stability.
result An algorithm with uniform stability of β implies a bound of O(√β) on the scale of noise required for differential privacy.
Develops a framework for synthetic banking microdata evaluation.
problem Lack of evaluation frameworks for synthetic banking microdata.
method Develops a framework considering utility and privacy requirements.
result Synthetic datasets are particularly suited for frequency tables.
Enhanced privacy, utility, and efficiency through MUST subsampling.
problem Balancing privacy, utility, and computational efficiency in data analysis.
method MUltistage Sampling Technique (MUST) for privacy amplification in differential privacy.
result MUST offers stronger privacy guarantees (ϵ) than one-stage subsampling methods while maintaining similar utility and computational efficiency. FinTech uses data science and AI to transform finance.
problem Transforming finance with data science and AI.
method DSAI techniques including complex system methods, quantitative methods, etc.
result DSAI enables smart FinTech for various financial sectors.
We propose a privacy-enhanced matrix factorization recommender that exploits the fact that users can often be grouped together by interest. This allows a form of "hiding in the crowd" privacy. We introduce a novel matrix factorization approach suited to making recommendations in a shared group (or nym) setting and the …
Missing data enhances privacy in differential privacy.
problem Privacy preservation in datasets with missing values.
method Formalized missing data as a privacy amplification mechanism within differential privacy.
result Incomplete data can yield privacy amplification for differentially private algorithms.
Enhances privacy in data annotation and inspection with synthetic data.
problem Improving privacy in machine learning tasks like data annotation and inspection.
method Employing Bayesian differential privacy to generate higher-fidelity synthetic data.
result Produces higher-fidelity samples, detecting more subtle data errors and biases.
BCDP enhances privacy by protecting sensitive features more precisely.
problem Uniform privacy protection in LDP degrades performance for sensitive features.
method Bayesian Coordinate Differential Privacy (BCDP) adjusts privacy protection per feature sensitivity.
result BCDP improves accuracy in downstream tasks without sacrificing privacy.
Decentralized finance uses blockchain for $70B in assets, differing from traditional finance.
problem Ensuring compliance and security in decentralized finance.
method Systematic analysis of legal, economic, security, and privacy aspects.
result Decentralized finance offers unique economic effects and security features.
Eye tracking is handled as one of the key technologies for applications that assess and evaluate human attention, behavior, and biometrics, especially using gaze, pupillary, and blink behaviors. One of the challenges with regard to the social acceptance of eye tracking technology is however the preserving of sensitive …
Paper tackles federated learning with privacy, enhancing target data analysis.
problem Heterogeneity and privacy of distributed data in federated learning.
method Formulates federated differential privacy, studies statistical problems under privacy constraints.
result Federated differential privacy offers a balance between privacy and knowledge transfer.
Image and video-capturing technologies have permeated our every-day life. Such technologies can continuously monitor individuals' expressions in real-life settings, affording us new insights into their emotional states and transitions, thus paving the way to novel well-being and healthcare applications. Yet, due to the…
Improved fraud detection in finance with quantum-enhanced federated learning.
problem Challenges in detecting financial fraud with traditional methods.
method Hybrid quantum-enhanced federated learning framework combining quantum LSTM with privacy-preserving techniques.
result Approximately 5% improvement in performance metrics compared to conventional models.
SMOTE-DP enhances synthetic data privacy without sacrificing utility.
problem Balancing privacy and utility in synthetic data generation.
method Integrating SMOTE with differential privacy mechanisms.
result SMOTE-DP produces synthetic data that is both private and useful.
This study examines how model architecture affects deep learning model privacy.
problem Privacy concerns in deep learning models due to potential leakage of sensitive information.
method Investigation of CNNs and Transformers, focusing on activation layers, stem layers, LN layers, and attention modules.
result Transformers generally exhibit higher vulnerability to privacy attacks than CNNs.
Survey on security and privacy in decentralized federated learning.
problem New threats in decentralized federated learning due to the removal of the server.
method Thorough security analysis and overview of defense mechanisms.
result Challenges and threats in decentralized federated learning.
SAD-DPSGD improves model performance on imbalanced medical datasets like HAM10000.
problem Data leakage and imbalanced distribution in medical image classification datasets.
method SAD-DPSGD uses a linear decaying mechanism for noise and clipping thresholds to enhance performance.
result SAD-DPSGD outperforms Auto-DPSGD on HAM10000, improving accuracy by 2.15%.
This paper surveys differential privacy methods for transportation spatiotemporal data.
problem Protecting user privacy in public release of spatiotemporal data.
method Review of differential privacy mechanisms and their application in transportation.
result Challenges in deploying and adopting differential privacy in transportation.
This paper improves privacy bounds for DP algorithms using f-DP.
problem Difficulty in analyzing randomness in DP algorithms due to mixture distributions.
method Derives a closed-form expression for trade-off functions and analyzes f-DP. result Enhances privacy of DP-GD with random initialization and shuffling models.
This paper enhances privacy-preserving randomized power method for large datasets.
problem Privacy issues in applying randomized power method to large datasets containing personal information.
method Proposes enhanced privacy-preserving variants of the randomized power method, including a variant with reduced noise and a decentralized framework.
result Tighter convergence bounds and empirical comparisons with previous work in real recommendation datasets.
We derive the optimal differential privacy (DP) parameters of a mechanism that satisfies a given level of Rényi differential privacy (RDP). Our result is based on the joint range of two f-divergences that underlie the approximate and the Rényi variations of differential privacy. We apply our result to the moments acc…
The workshop focuses on AI principles for structured data.
problem Using AI on structured data for decision-making.
method Addressing principles of privacy, accountability, interpretability, robustness, and reasoning.
result Designing approaches to use structured data for reliable decisions.
Federated Learning solves privacy and data distribution challenges in machine learning.
problem Privacy concerns and distributed data in machine learning.
method Federated Learning framework to handle privacy and distributed data.
result Solves privacy and data distribution challenges in machine learning.
Enhances generative model for clinical data privacy and accuracy.
problem Data privacy in electronic patient records.
method Improves a time-series generative model with privacy safeguards.
result DP-TimeGAN achieves a mean authenticity of 0.778 on the CKD dataset.
Big data transforms accounting and auditing, enhancing insights but posing challenges.
problem Challenges in data privacy and security with increased data sources.
method Utilizing AI and machine learning for efficient data analysis and anomaly detection.
result Enhanced analytics tools and continuous learning are key to overcoming challenges.
Enhances privacy in federated learning with Laplacian smoothing.
problem Protecting data privacy in federated learning while maintaining model accuracy.
method Laplacian smoothing for differentially private federated learning (DP-Fed-LS).
result Improves model accuracy with differential privacy guarantee and membership privacy.
DP-CDA generates synthetic data to enhance privacy in high-dimensional datasets.
problem Privacy concerns in anonymized datasets, especially in high-dimensional data.
method Randomized mixing of privacy-sensitive data in a class-specific manner with carefully tuned randomness.
result DP-CDA provides stronger privacy guarantees compared to existing methods, maintaining utility.
DPNR preserves privacy of text representations using differential privacy.
problem Privacy leakage in deep learning text representations.
method DPNR uses Differential Privacy to provide formal privacy guarantees and dropout masking for enhanced privacy.
result DPNR reduces privacy leakage without significantly sacrificing main task performance.
Paper removes sensitive data from IoT and Big Data for privacy.
problem Privacy concerns in IoT and Big Data.
method Develops new supervised and adversarial learning methods to remove sensitive data.
result Models maintain predictive model utility while making sensitive predictions ineffective.
Examines AI regulation in finance, highlighting risks and gaps in current laws.
problem Rapid AI adoption in finance introduces risks and compliance challenges.
method Reviews current legislation, industry guidelines, and real-world use cases.
result Need for adaptive, technology-neutral policies to balance innovation and consumer protection.
This paper addresses privacy issues in personalized pricing using nonparametric demand models.
problem Privacy violation in personalized pricing algorithms with unknown nonparametric demand models.
method Develops algorithms to make pricing decisions and learn demand while ensuring central and local differential privacy.
result Proves near-optimal regret bounds for algorithms with CDP and LDP guarantees.
Privacy is enhanced by synthetic data release even with unlimited data.
problem Improving privacy guarantees for synthetic data release.
method Analyzing a bounded-parameter assumption to show privacy amplification persists with unlimited synthetic records.
result Privacy amplification is possible even with an unbounded number of synthetic records.
Voice-enabled interactions provide more human-like experiences in many popular IoT systems. Cloud-based speech analysis services extract useful information from voice input using speech recognition techniques. The voice signal is a rich resource that discloses several possible states of a speaker, such as emotional sta…
National statistical systems are the enterprises tasked with collecting, validating and reporting societal attributes. These data serve many purposes - they allow governments to improve services, economic actors to traverse markets, and academics to assess social theories. National statistical systems vary in quality, …
Paper presents a privacy-preserving method for dynamic assortment selection.
problem Personalized assortment recommendations with data privacy concerns.
method Perturbed upper confidence bound method integrating calibrated noise.
result Policy satisfies Joint Differential Privacy (JDP) with near-optimal regret bound.
Integrates differential privacy and demographic parity in multi-class classification.
problem Ensuring fairness and privacy in sensitive applications.
method Designs DP2DP algorithm that enforces both demographic parity and differential privacy.
result DP2DP converges towards demographic parity at nearly the same rate as non-private methods, achieving state-of-the-art trade-offs.
Superconducting circuit technologies have recently achieved quantum protocols involving closed feedback loops. Quantum artificial intelligence and quantum machine learning are emerging fields inside quantum technologies which may enable quantum devices to acquire information from the outer world and improve themselves …
We propose a protocol to perform quantum reinforcement learning with quantum technologies. At variance with recent results on quantum reinforcement learning with superconducting circuits, in our current protocol coherent feedback during the learning process is not required, enabling its implementation in a wide variety…
The increasing interest in user privacy is leading to new privacy preserving machine learning paradigms. In the Federated Learning paradigm, a master machine learning model is distributed to user clients, the clients use their locally stored data and model for both inference and calculating model updates. The model upd…
Enhances privacy in machine learning through Rényi Pufferfish mechanisms.
problem Designing general and efficient Pufferfish mechanisms that maintain privacy and utility.
method Introduces a Rényi divergence-based variant of Pufferfish, generalizes the Wasserstein mechanism, and proves privacy amplification results.
result Extends the applicability of Pufferfish framework and provides stronger privacy guarantees.