Gradient sparsification enhances privacy-preserving machine learning models.
problem Improving performance of differentially-private machine learning models under privacy constraints.
method Gradient sparsification combined with compressed sensing and additive Laplace noise.
result Gradient sparsification can improve performance of differentially-private machine learning models for small privacy budgets.
Efficient privacy-preserving machine learning framework using random transformations.
problem Slow training and inference speed in privacy-preserving machine learning systems.
method Random transformations like linear and permutation, combined with arithmetic sharing.
result High efficiency and low computation cost in private machine learning.
New method preserves privacy while improving machine learning accuracy.
problem Privacy-preserving machine learning for daily data.
method Compressive Privacy and multi-kernel method.
result Improved utility classification accuracy with privacy preservation.
A new privacy-preserving deep learning scheme for asymmetrically collaborative machine learning.
problem Privacy and efficiency in collaborative machine learning across different data owners.
method Decomposes neural network steps for privacy-preserving training; novel protocol for information leakage.
result Efficient training with stable performance and significant speedup.
Efficient framework for training machine learning models at edge without data movement.
problem Lack of privacy-preserving and computationally efficient methods for deep learning model training.
method Privacy preserving FedCollabNN framework for federated learning.
result Framework is computationally efficient and robust against adversarial attacks.
This review explores federated learning for IoT data privacy.
problem Privacy risks and data transfer costs in IoT data analytics.
method Federated learning approach to protect privacy and reduce data transfer.
result Survey of methods for improving communication efficiency and privacy in IoT federated learning.
This paper benchmarks privacy-preserving machine learning on medical images.
problem Ensuring privacy in medical image analysis while maintaining model accuracy.
method Comparing Local-DP and DP-SGD for differential privacy in medical imagery.
result Theoretical privacy guarantees do not fully align with real-world performance.
Paper improves privacy in SGD with low noise, achieving optimal risk rates.
problem Privacy-preserving machine learning with good performance.
method Differentially private SGD with low-noise analysis.
result Achieves optimal excess risk rates for non-smooth losses.
DPpack offers R tools for private data analysis and machine learning.
problem Ensuring privacy in statistical analysis and machine learning.
method Differential privacy mechanisms (Laplace, Gaussian, exponential).
result User-friendly implementation of privacy-preserving models.
This paper applies secure multi-party computation to K-means clustering to protect private data.
problem Privacy-preserving K-means clustering for distributed private data.
method Secure multi-party computation (MPC) techniques to protect private data during K-means clustering.
result Privacy-preserving K-means clustering is feasible and effective for both horizontal and vertical data distribution.
Principled mapping from pure-DP ε to GDP μ for Gaussian differential privacy
problem Choosing the μ parameter in Gaussian differential privacy
method Matching the worst-case success of a membership inference attack
result Recommendation of μ ≈ ε/5 as a conservative general-purpose conversion
Machine learning models benefit from large and diverse datasets. Using such datasets, however, often requires trusting a centralized data aggregator. For sensitive applications like healthcare and finance this is undesirable as it could compromise patient privacy or divulge trade secrets. Recent advances in secure and …
New methods reduce bias in synthetic data for machine learning.
problem Statistical bias in synthetic data generated for privacy.
method Re-weighting strategies using privatised likelihood ratios.
result Private importance weighting enhances synthetic data utility.
The Internet of Things (IoT) will be a main data generation infrastructure for achieving better system intelligence. However, the extensive data collection and processing in IoT also engender various privacy concerns. This paper provides a taxonomy of the existing privacy-preserving machine learning approaches develope…
Secure XGB for privacy-preserving machine learning in federated learning.
problem Privacy-preserving machine learning in federated learning with practical gradient tree boosting models.
method Secure multi-party computation, distributed model storage, secure permutation protocols.
result Our XGB models provide competitive accuracy and practical performance.
Develops a privacy-preserving algorithm for sparse robust regression.
problem Privacy-preserving machine learning for sparse robust regression.
method Develops FRAPPE algorithm for non-smooth loss under differential privacy.
result Achieves better privacy and statistical accuracy trade-off.
Tempered sigmoids improve deep learning privacy.
problem Privacy-preserving deep learning with strict differential privacy guarantees.
method Developed tempered sigmoid activation functions for deep learning models.
result Tempered sigmoids outperform ReLU in achieving state-of-the-art accuracy.
Proposes a privacy-preserving recommendation system using matrix factorization and differential privacy.
problem Privacy leakage in recommendation systems when anonymizing user data is not sufficient.
method Uses matrix factorization and differential privacy via the Gaussian mechanism.
result Demonstrates excellent utility for privacy-preserving recommendation systems.
This paper quantifies privacy loss in exploratory data analysis.
problem Privacy loss in exploratory data analysis is often overlooked in privacy budgets.
method Quantitative analysis of privacy loss for statistical functions.
result Privacy loss must be considered in calculating machine learning privacy budgets.
The recent, remarkable growth of machine learning has led to intense interest in the privacy of the data on which machine learning relies, and to new techniques for preserving privacy. However, older ideas about privacy may well remain valid and useful. This note reviews two recent works on privacy in the light of the …
Our everyday interactions with pervasive systems generate traces that capture various aspects of human behavior and enable machine learning algorithms to extract latent information about users. In this paper, we propose a machine learning interpretability framework that enables users to understand how these generated t…
Asynchronous algorithms reduce privacy costs in distributed machine learning.
problem Privacy concerns in training machine learning models on scattered private data.
method Differentially-private asynchronous algorithms for collaborative training.
result Cost of privacy is inversely proportional to dataset size and privacy budgets.
Sherpa.ai framework combines federated learning and differential privacy for edge AI services.
problem Protecting data privacy in edge AI services.
method Holistic federated learning and differential privacy approach with methodological guidelines.
result Demonstrated through classification and regression use cases.
Safeguarding privacy in machine learning is highly desirable, especially in collaborative studies across many organizations. Privacy-preserving distributed machine learning (based on cryptography) is popular to solve the problem. However, existing cryptographic protocols still incur excess computational overhead. Here,…
Paper bridges statistical inference for DP-SGD, a privacy-preserving machine learning method.
problem Asymptotic statistical inference for Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD).
method Established asymptotic properties of SGD under randomized subsampling, extended to DP-SGD, proposed methods for constructing valid confidence intervals.
result Valid confidence intervals for DP-SGD output achieve nominal coverage rates while maintaining privacy.
New approach preserves privacy in high-dimensional data using representation learning.
problem Preserving privacy in high-dimensional data collection.
method Adapting representation learning techniques to add noise to low-dimensional data representations.
result Significantly outperforms current LDP mechanisms in downstream model learning.
FedHDPrivacy uses DP to improve FL in IoT, maintaining high accuracy.
problem Privacy threats in FL, especially in IoT environments.
method Integrates DP with neuro-symbolic computing, actively monitoring and adjusting noise.
result Maintains high performance in manufacturing monitoring, surpassing other FL methods.
We consider the problem of publicly releasing a dataset for support vector machine classification while not infringing on the privacy of data subjects (i.e., individuals whose private information is stored in the dataset). The dataset is systematically obfuscated using an additive noise for privacy protection. Motivate…
This paper addresses privacy in federated learning for medical imaging by estimating model uncertainty.
problem Privacy concerns in federated learning for medical imaging.
method Federated Learning (FL) for collaborative model training while preserving patient data privacy.
result Accurate uncertainty estimation in federated learning for medical imaging.
FedPower improves eigenspace estimation privacy in federated learning.
problem Privacy breaches and communication challenges in federated eigenspace estimation.
method FedPower uses a power method with local power iterations and global aggregation, weighted by OPT, and adds Gaussian noise for privacy.
result FedPower provides convergence bounds and demonstrates effectiveness in experiments.
With the proliferation of training data, distributed machine learning (DML) is becoming more competent for large-scale learning tasks. However, privacy concerns have to be given priority in DML, since training data may contain sensitive information of users. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving ADMM-based DML…
Novel algorithm reduces privacy noise in machine learning.
problem High privacy noise in machine learning algorithms.
method Robust statistics, specifically median and trimmed mean, to bound sensitivity of SGD iterates.
result Improved privacy-utility trade-off with reduced noise and computational efficiency.
Paper presents privacy-preserving techniques for HD computing.
problem Privacy loss in HD computing due to reversible computation.
method Quantization and pruning of hypervectors for differential privacy.
result Differentially private HD model for cloud inference.
Study on privacy-preserving health care models that sacrifice accuracy for data protection.
problem Privacy-preserving models in health care neglect data from the tails, reducing accuracy for small groups.
method Used state-of-the-art differentially private learning methods for clinical prediction tasks.
result Privacy-preserving models in health care exhibit steep tradeoffs between privacy and utility, and disproportionately influence large demographic groups.
Hybrid approach protects privacy while analyzing smart meter data.
problem Privacy concerns in AMI data analysis under CPUC regulations.
method Anonymization, differential privacy, federated learning, synthetic data, cryptography.
result Comprehensive privacy-preserving analytics framework for AMI data.
In the post-industrial world, data science and analytics have gained paramount importance regarding digital data privacy. Improper methods of establishing privacy for accessible datasets can compromise large amounts of user data even if the adversary has a small amount of preliminary knowledge of a user. Many researche…
In machine learning, boosting is one of the most popular methods that designed to combine multiple base learners to a superior one. The well-known Boosted Decision Tree classifier, has been widely adopted in many areas. In the big data era, the data held by individual and entities, like personal images, browsing histor…
COPML framework securely trains models across multiple data owners without revealing individual data.
problem Privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning with multiple data owners.
method Securely encodes data, distributes computation, performs distributed training.
result Achieves up to 16x speedup in training time while maintaining strong privacy.
Guaranteeing a certain level of user privacy in an arbitrary piece of text is a challenging issue. However, with this challenge comes the potential of unlocking access to vast data stores for training machine learning models and supporting data driven decisions. We address this problem through the lens of dx-privacy, a…
It is commonly observed that the data are scattered everywhere and difficult to be centralized. The data privacy and security also become a sensitive topic. The laws and regulations such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are designed to protect the public's data privacy. However, machine…
New method calibrates noise for attack risk, improving ML model accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy of privacy-preserving ML models while maintaining privacy.
method Directly calibrates noise scale to a desired attack risk level, bypassing the standard ε-calibration. result Significantly decreases noise scale, leading to increased utility at the same risk level.
Privacy-preserving machine learning methods add randomness, leading to varying predictions.
problem Privacy-preserving machine learning methods add randomness, leading to varying predictions.
method The study analyzes three DP-ensuring algorithms: output perturbation, objective perturbation, and DP-SGD.
result The degree of predictive multiplicity rises as the level of privacy increases, and is unevenly distributed across individuals and demographic groups.
This paper considers the scenario that multiple data owners wish to apply a machine learning method over the combined dataset of all owners to obtain the best possible learning output but do not want to share the local datasets owing to privacy concerns. We design systems for the scenario that the stochastic gradient d…
Differentially-private FNAS protects privacy while collaboratively searching for neural architectures.
problem Collaborative neural architecture search with privacy concerns.
method Federated Neural Architecture Search (FNAS) with differential privacy (DP-FNAS).
result DP-FNAS can search for highly-performant neural architectures while protecting individual parties' privacy.
Paper proposes privacy-preserving learning for images, making them imperceptible to humans but recognizable by machines.
problem Conflict between developing AI systems and protecting sensitive training data.
method Encryption strategies (random shuffling and sub-patch mixing) followed by minimal adaptation to vision transformer.
result Achieves comparable accuracy to competitive methods while ensuring human-imperceptibility of encrypted images.
Paper introduces privacy-preserving deep-learning service.
problem Privacy loss in deep-learning-as-a-service.
method Homomorphic Encryption tailored for CNNs.
result Effectiveness of proposed privacy-preserving architecture.
We present two new statistical machine learning methods designed to learn on fully homomorphic encrypted (FHE) data. The introduction of FHE schemes following Gentry (2009) opens up the prospect of privacy preserving statistical machine learning analysis and modelling of encrypted data without compromising security con…
This paper compresses large datasets for efficient machine learning.
problem Efficiently processing large datasets for machine learning.
method Constructing a sketch of the dataset using random features and averaging, then learning from the sketch.
result The approach can perform machine learning tasks without full dataset access, preserving both information and privacy.