This paper introduces a privacy-aware Bayesian approach that combines ensembles of classifiers and clusterers to perform semi-supervised and transductive learning. We consider scenarios where instances and their classification/clustering results are distributed across different data sites and have sharing restrictions.…
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Suppliers (including companies and individual prosumers) may wish to protect their private information when selling items they have in stock. A market is envisaged where private information can be protected through the use of differential privacy and option contracts, while privacy-aware suppliers deliver their stock a…
A privacy-preserving method for transmitting data over a wiretap channel using generative networks.
problem Privacy protection in communication over a wiretap channel.
method Data-driven approach using variational autoencoder (VAE)-based joint source channel coding (JSCC).
result The approach provides high reconstruction quality at the receiver while confusing the eavesdropper about the latent sensitive attribute.
Privacy Aware Learningstat.ML
We study statistical risk minimization problems under a privacy model in which the data is kept confidential even from the learner. In this local privacy framework, we establish sharp upper and lower bounds on the convergence rates of statistical estimation procedures. As a consequence, we exhibit a precise tradeoff be…
In this paper, we apply machine learning to distributed private data owned by multiple data owners, entities with access to non-overlapping training datasets. We use noisy, differentially-private gradients to minimize the fitness cost of the machine learning model using stochastic gradient descent. We quantify the qual…
Two-stage architecture helps learners collaborate on data with privacy and transmission constraints.
problem Collaboration between learners with distinct datasets and privacy/transmission constraints.
method Privacy-aware hypothesis testing screening and synergistic iterative model training.
result Achieves oracle performance with limited transmissions of summary statistics.
Deep neural networks require large amounts of resources which makes them hard to use on resource constrained devices such as Internet-of-things devices. Offloading the computations to the cloud can circumvent these constraints but introduces a privacy risk since the operator of the cloud is not necessarily trustworthy.…
Analyzing mobility behavior of users is extremely useful to create or improve existing services. Several research works have been done in order to study mobility behavior of users that mainly use users' significant locations. However, these existing analysis are extremely intrusive because they require the knowledge of…
Broad adoption of machine learning techniques has increased privacy concerns for models trained on sensitive data such as medical records. Existing techniques for training differentially private (DP) models give rigorous privacy guarantees, but applying these techniques to neural networks can severely degrade model per…
While machine learning has achieved remarkable results in a wide variety of domains, the training of models often requires large datasets that may need to be collected from different individuals. As sensitive information may be contained in the individual's dataset, sharing training data may lead to severe privacy conc…
Pairwise similarities and dissimilarities between data points might be easier to obtain than fully labeled data in real-world classification problems, e.g., in privacy-aware situations. To handle such pairwise information, an empirical risk minimization approach has been proposed, giving an unbiased estimator of the cl…
Study improves understanding and performance of FA learning rules in neural networks.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding and limited applications of Feedback Alignment (FA) methods.
method Introduces a unified framework linking synaptic weight changes to implicit regularization, providing convergence conditions and empirical evidence.
result Better alignment can enhance FA performance on complex multi-class tasks.
Optimizes survey design for private mean estimation with reduced variance.
problem Minimizing variance in private mean estimation with privacy constraints.
method Formulates optimal survey design as an optimization problem, determining optimal subsampling sizes to minimize variance.
result Identifies the first privacy-aware stratified sampling scheme that minimizes variance under different privacy mechanisms.
Unsupervised models can provide supplementary soft constraints to help classify new target data under the assumption that similar objects in the target set are more likely to share the same class label. Such models can also help detect possible differences between training and target distributions, which is useful in a…
Optimal LDP mechanisms reduce data unfairness in classification.
problem Reducing data unfairness in classification models.
method Developed a closed-form optimal mechanism for binary attributes and a tractable framework for multi-valued attributes.
result Optimal LDP mechanisms improve fairness in classification while maintaining accuracy close to non-private models.
Survey on threats to federated learning models.
problem Vulnerabilities in federated learning protocols.
method Taxonomy of threat models and attacks.
result Important future research directions.
An adversarial learning framework for preserving users' anonymity in face-based emotion recognitioncs.LG
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…
Federated learning is a distributed, privacy-aware learning scenario which trains a single model on data belonging to several clients. Each client trains a local model on its data and the local models are then aggregated by a central party. Current federated learning methods struggle in cases with heterogeneous client-…
Twitter releases dataset to study user engagement on Home Timeline, focusing on privacy.
problem Limited exploration of user feedback on Twitter's Home Timeline.
method Release of a large-scale dataset of 160 million Tweets with engagement information.
result Demonstrates challenges in predicting user engagements and privacy concerns.
Leveled Homomorphic Encryption (LHE) offers a potential solution that could allow sectors with sensitive data to utilize the cloud and securely deploy their models for remote inference with Deep Neural Networks (DNN). However, this application faces several obstacles due to the limitations of LHE. One of the main probl…
Privacy-preserving boosting algorithm for machine learning.
problem Privacy concerns in machine learning with sensitive data.
method Local Differential Privacy to protect data privacy while boosting.
result Effective privacy-preserving boosting algorithm developed.
Differentially Private Linear Regression and Synthetic Data Generation with Statistical Guaranteescs.LG
Proposes a method for differentially private linear regression and synthetic data generation.
problem Lack of valid inference and synthetic data generation methods for small-scale datasets in privacy-aware settings.
method Gaussian differentially private linear regression with bias-corrected estimator and SDG procedure.
result Improves accuracy and provides valid confidence intervals for downstream tasks.
Distributed estimation and learning with privacy preserved.
problem Privacy-preserving distributed estimation and learning in a networked environment.
method Linear aggregation schemes with differential privacy constraints.
result Noise minimizes convergence time to best estimates, using Laplace noise.
Federated learning improves CRC grading accuracy and privacy.
problem Inter-observer variability and data privacy in CRC grading.
method Multi-scale federated learning framework integrating ResNetRS50.
result Framework achieves 83.5% accuracy, outperforming centralized models.
Paper improves privacy-preserving measurement of advertising incrementality.
problem Privacy degradation in randomized lift tests for advertising measurement.
method Formulates a robust causal decision problem under signal losses, projecting clean worlds onto incrementality.
result Sharp decision frontier shows valid certification or rejection outside the frontier.
Study privacy-utility trade-off in IoT time-series data sharing with RL.
problem Privacy concerns in IoT time-series data sharing with temporal correlations.
method Reformulated as MDP, solved with asynchronous actor-critic deep RL.
result Validated solution on synthetic and real GPS datasets.
A new algorithm for efficiently removing specific classes from a model without retraining.
problem Class forgetting in machine learning models.
method Estimating retain and forget spaces using SVD, removing shared information, and updating weights.
result Achieved up to 1.38% accuracy improvement on ImageNet dataset with minimal samples.