Proposes an accuracy-preserving calibration method for DNNs.
problem Calibration of deep neural networks (DNNs) to measure prediction reliability.
method Uses Concrete distribution on the probability simplex to calibrate DNNs without accuracy loss.
result The proposed method outperforms previous methods in accuracy-preserving calibration tasks.
Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance in many applications but their large number of parameters lead to significant computational and storage overheads. Several recent works attempt to mitigate these overheads by designing compact networks using pruning of connections. However, we observe that most …
Mix2FLD improves FL accuracy with FD, reducing convergence time.
problem Uplink-downlink capacity asymmetry in federated learning.
method Two-way mixup of local samples and model parameters, preserving privacy.
result Achieves up to 16.7% higher test accuracy with reduced convergence time.
Three privacy-preserving methods for median regression are proposed.
problem Protecting individual privacy in median regression analysis.
method Three privacy-preserving methods: finite smoothing, iterative, and greedy coordinate descent.
result Numerical results show varying performance across different sample sizes.
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.
AAT separates robust and non-robust features without supervision.
problem Adversarial vulnerability and accuracy reduction in machine learning models.
method Adversarial Asymmetric Training (AAT) algorithm.
result Preserves accuracy and achieves better disentanglement than previous methods.
We consider accurately answering smooth queries while preserving differential privacy. A query is said to be K-smooth if it is specified by a function defined on [−1,1]d whose partial derivatives up to order K are all bounded. We develop an ε-differentially private mechanism for the class of K-smooth queries…
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.
Paper evaluates and mitigates privacy risks in deep learning models.
problem Quantifying and defending against privacy attacks in deep learning.
method Quantitative evaluation of trade-offs, reformulating attacks, and proposing a novel SPN.
result Model accuracy improved by 5-20% while maintaining data privacy.
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…
New saddle network architectures preserve convex-concave geometry in optimization problems.
problem Optimization models with convex x and concave y components.
method Structured separable decomposition and saddle network architectures.
result Proven one-dimensional approximation theorem and high accuracy on various test functions.
Project fair estimators while maintaining accuracy.
problem Making estimators fair without sacrificing accuracy.
method Optimal transport tools to find closest fair estimator.
result Efficiently constructs fair estimators with quantified cost.
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.
GNMC reduces XCSF population size while preserving function approximation and policy accuracy.
problem Population bloat in XCSF compaction.
method Introduced GNMC, a novel compaction algorithm.
result GNMC reduces population size significantly without compromising function approximation or policy accuracy.
This paper improves deep learning models' accuracy with differential privacy using gradient encoding and denoising.
problem Deep learning models leak sensitive information about their training datasets.
method Gradient encoding to map gradients to a smaller vector space, and denoising for post-processing.
result Our technique achieves better model accuracy with differential privacy guarantees compared to state-of-the-art methods.
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.
The Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) is a popular machine learning model for various tasks in recent years. In this paper, we study how to improve model accuracy of GBDT while preserving the strong guarantee of differential privacy. Sensitivity and privacy budget are two key design aspects for the effectiveness o…
This paper analyzes privacy-preserving methods for collaborative forecasting.
problem Data owners' reluctance to share data due to competitive and privacy concerns.
method Examines three groups of privacy-preserving methods: data transformation, secure multi-party computations, and decomposition methods.
result State-of-the-art techniques have limitations in preserving data privacy, such as trade-offs between privacy and forecasting accuracy.
We detail a new framework for privacy preserving deep learning and discuss its assets. The framework puts a premium on ownership and secure processing of data and introduces a valuable representation based on chains of commands and tensors. This abstraction allows one to implement complex privacy preserving constructs …
The paper introduces a privacy-preserving method for estimating treatment effects that maintains accuracy.
problem Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in sensitive data while protecting privacy.
method A general meta-algorithm for CATE estimation with differential privacy guarantees, using sample splitting and parallel composition.
result The meta-algorithm maintains accuracy even with differential privacy, showing that most accuracy loss is due to variance increase.
Diffusion models generate private synthetic images with high quality.
problem Generating private synthetic images from sensitive datasets.
method Differentially private fine-tuning of pre-trained diffusion models.
result Improved synthetic data quality and accuracy compared to non-private models.
We study polygonal analogues of several moving boundary problems and their time discretization which preserves the constant area speed property. We establish various polygonal analogues of geometric formulas for moving boundaries and make use of the geometric formulas for our numerical scheme and its analysis of genera…
This paper proposes a method to reduce complexity in GLMs with categorical predictors.
problem Wasteful, hard-to-interpret, and prone to overfitting of traditional one-hot encoding for high-cardinality categorical predictors.
method Clustering categories of categorical predictors through a numerical method that preserves or improves accuracy while reducing the number of coefficients.
result Clustering categories of categorical predictors reduces complexity substantially without harming accuracy.
Proposes IIKL for preserving geometric properties of non-Euclidean data.
problem Loss of geometric information in non-Euclidean data representation.
method IIKL method builds Riemannian manifold and isometrically induces metric.
result Preserves geometric structure of original data in 3D and high-dimensional datasets.
DP-GD improves CNN training accuracy with privacy, especially with low signal-to-noise ratios.
problem Privacy-preserving training of neural networks with crowdsourced data.
method Differentially private gradient descent (DP-GD) algorithm applied to two-layer CNNs.
result DP-GD can achieve superior generalization performance compared to GD, especially with low signal-to-noise ratios.
IMPACT optimizes LLM compression by focusing on activation importance, reducing model size up to 55.4%.
problem Resource constraints in deploying large language models (LLMs).
method IMPACT integrates activation importance into low-rank compression, optimizing for both size and accuracy.
result IMPACT achieves up to 55.4% greater model size reduction while maintaining comparable or better accuracy.
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.
Large data collections required for the training of neural networks often contain sensitive information such as the medical histories of patients, and the privacy of the training data must be preserved. In this paper, we introduce a dropout technique that provides an elegant Bayesian interpretation to dropout, and show…
Due to the recent advances on Neural Architecture Search (NAS), it gains popularity in designing best networks for specific tasks. Although it shows promising results on many benchmarks and competitions, NAS still suffers from its demanding computation cost for searching high dimensional architectural design space, and…
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 …
Efficiently preserves privacy in logistic regression for IoT data.
problem Balancing data privacy and utility in collaborative learning.
method Matrix encryption approach for secure multi-party computation.
result Proposes a privacy-preserving logistic regression model with fast convergence.
Paper uses 'manifold attack' to improve model accuracy and robustness.
problem Improving model performance with limited training data and large model parameters.
method Enforces manifold preservation from original data into latent space using adversarial learning.
result Improves accuracy rate and robustness to adversarial examples.
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.
FedIRT enables privacy-preserving psychometric estimation without centralizing data.
problem Privacy and data governance concerns in centralized IRT estimation.
method Federated Item Response Theory (FedIRT) and FedIRT-DP for differentially private estimation.
result FedIRT matches accuracy of centralized estimators while preserving privacy.
Bispectral OT improves dataset comparison by preserving intrinsic coherence.
problem Ignoring intrinsic coherence in dataset comparisons using pairwise geometric distances.
method Introduces Bispectral Optimal Transport, a symmetry-aware extension of discrete OT.
result Transport plans computed with Bispectral OT achieve greater class preservation accuracy.
Two methods preserve tensor structure for reduced dimensionality in tensor regression.
problem Reducing dimensionality of tensor predictors for improved interpretation and accuracy.
method Developed two tensor dimension reduction methods using Tucker and CP decompositions.
result Substantial improvement in accuracy over existing methods in simulations and applications.
New method calibrates deep networks by preserving top-k predictions.
problem Calibrated confidence scores for multi-class deep networks to avoid rare mistakes.
method Intra order-preserving functions combined with neural network architecture.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods in evaluation metrics.
InstaHide encrypts images for privacy in distributed learning.
problem Private training of deep neural networks on distributed data.
method Encryption of training images with one-time secret keys and pixel-wise masks.
result Preserves privacy with minor accuracy loss, secure against known attacks.
Recently, Capsule Networks (CapsNets) have shown improved performance compared to the traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), by encoding and preserving spatial relationships between the detected features in a better way. This is achieved through the so-called Capsules (i.e., groups of neurons) that encode bo…
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.
Paper introduces EO_k for quantifying accuracy-fairness trade-offs in FRL.
problem Tackles the trade-off between accuracy and fairness in FRL.
method Kernel-based formulation of EO criterion for FRL.
result Offers a unified analytical characterization of fairness tradeoffs.
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.
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.
New Lie-group methods preserve geometric divergence-free features on manifolds.
problem Designing divergence-free Lie-group methods on manifolds.
method Introducing planar aromatic trees to span the free tracial post-Lie-Rinehart algebra.
result New Lie-group methods derived for high-order accuracy.
New method improves fairness in DP learning by preventing excessive gradient suppression.
problem Disparate impact on model predictions for minority groups in DP learning.
method Bounded adaptive clipping to prevent excessive gradient suppression.
result Improves worst-class accuracy by over 10 percentage points compared to existing methods.
Privacy-preserving GNNs for graph data with sensitive node data.
problem Privacy concerns in learning node representations for graphs with sensitive data.
method Developed a privacy-preserving GNN learning algorithm based on Local Differential Privacy (LDP). Proposed an LDP encoder, an unbiased rectifier, and a denoising mechanism (KProp).
result Our method maintains a satisfying level of accuracy with low privacy loss.
Improved DP-SGD on large models achieves high accuracy on image classification tasks.
problem Differentially private image classification often degrades performance.
method Careful hyper-parameter tuning and signal propagation techniques.
result Achieved 81.4% top-1 accuracy on CIFAR-10 under (8, 10^{-5})-DP.
Feature hashing and other random projection schemes are commonly used to reduce the dimensionality of feature vectors. The goal is to efficiently project a high-dimensional feature vector living in Rn into a much lower-dimensional space Rm, while approximately preserving Euclidean norm. These sc…