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.
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.
Paper tackles privacy-preserving data density issues using deconvolution.
problem Privacy-preserving noise affects data density, leading to under/over-estimation.
method Develops deconvoluting kernel density estimators and regression models.
result Demonstrates improved accuracy in estimating heavy-hitters with locally differential data.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Proposes differentially private normalizing flows for privacy-preserving density estimation.
problem Privacy concerns in density estimation models when individuals are directly associated with the training data.
method Uses normalizing flow models with explicit differential privacy guarantees.
result Substantially outperforms previous state-of-the-art approaches in privacy-preserving density estimation.
Researchers found PP-GANs can hide sensitive data in sanitized images, undermining privacy checks.
problem Lack of formal proofs of privacy in PP-GANs for image sanitization.
method Subverted PP-GANs for facial expression recognition to hide sensitive data in sanitized images.
result It is possible to hide sensitive identification data in sanitized PP-GAN output images, even allowing reconstruction of entire input images.
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.
Addresses theoretical and practical aspects of Gaussian differential privacy.
problem Theoretical and practical challenges in privacy-preserving data analysis.
method Discussion of f-differential privacy and Gaussian differential privacy.
result Gaussian differential privacy can enhance privacy in various applications.
Paper proposes a privacy-preserving knockoff inference method.
problem Ensuring privacy in model-X knockoff inference.
method Differential privacy framework for knockoff inference.
result Guaranteed FDR control with privacy protection.
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.
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…
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.
DP-FedTabDiff generates private synthetic tabular data using diffusion models and differential privacy.
problem Privacy-preserving synthetic data generation for tabular data in regulated domains.
method Combines Differential Privacy, Federated Learning, and Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models.
result Achieves significant privacy improvements without compromising data quality.
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 tightens privacy and generalization bounds for iterative learning.
problem Balancing privacy and generalization in iterative learning algorithms.
method Established alignment between generalization and privacy, derived composition theorems for iterative algorithms.
result Generalization bounds for iterative learning algorithms are strictly tighter than existing works.
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.
P3GM improves privacy-preserving data synthesis for high-dimensional data.
problem Mitigating privacy risks in releasing large volumes of sensitive data.
method Privacy-preserving phased generative model (P3GM) with two-phase learning process.
result P3GM significantly outperforms existing solutions in terms of noise reduction and data accuracy.
Privacy-preserving crypto exchanges adjust prices based on Gaussian noise.
problem Ensuring fair pricing in privacy-preserving cryptocurrency exchanges.
method Derive Kyle equilibrium with Gaussian noise perturbation, rescaling price-impact and strategy factors.
result Identify a privacy subsidy as a transfer from LP pool to traders, invariant to noise.
Bayesian inference has great promise for the privacy-preserving analysis of sensitive data, as posterior sampling automatically preserves differential privacy, an algorithmic notion of data privacy, under certain conditions (Dimitrakakis et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2015). While this one posterior sample (OPS) approach e…
Privacy-preserving reinforcement learning from human feedback using decoupled reward modeling.
problem Training large language models with sensitive user information while preserving privacy.
method Proposes a privacy-preserving framework that imposes differential privacy on reward learning only.
result Privacy contributes an additional additive term to the suboptimality gap, and the upper bound is rate-optimal up to logarithmic factors.
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.
While many solutions for privacy-preserving convex empirical risk minimization (ERM) have been developed, privacy-preserving nonconvex ERM remains a challenge. We study nonconvex ERM, which takes the form of minimizing a finite-sum of nonconvex loss functions over a training set. We propose a new differentially private…
Develops privacy-preserving methods for equivalence testing in healthcare.
problem Protecting patient data in healthcare studies.
method Differential privacy techniques for simulation-based calibration.
result Maintains type-I error control and comparable power to non-private methods.
Paper studies optimal federated learning for nonparametric regression with privacy constraints.
problem Federated learning for nonparametric regression with heterogeneous differential privacy constraints.
method Proposes distributed privacy-preserving estimators and investigates their risk properties.
result Establishes matching minimax lower bounds for global and pointwise estimation.
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.
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.
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
New method preserves privacy while detecting communities in distributed networks.
problem Privacy-preserving community detection in locally distributed multi-layer networks.
method Privacy-preserving Distributed Spectral Clustering (ppDSC) using randomized response mechanism.
result Developed a novel algorithm that maintains community structure while protecting privacy.
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,…
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.
DP-NCB algorithm ensures privacy and fairness in bandit decisions.
problem Achieving both privacy and fairness in bandit algorithms.
method Differentially Private Nash Confidence Bound (DP-NCB) framework.
result DP-NCB achieves optimal Nash regret while maintaining privacy.
Paper introduces privacy-preserving inventory policy learning for feature-based newsvendor with unknown demand.
problem Privacy-preserving inventory policy learning for feature-based newsvendor with unknown demand distribution and nonsmooth loss function.
method Developed a clipped noisy gradient descent algorithm based on convolution smoothing for optimal inventory estimation within f-differential privacy framework.
result Achieved privacy-preserving optimal inventory policy with provable privacy guarantees and desirable statistical precision.
The paper analyzes privacy leakage in federated learning using linear algebra and optimization theory.
problem Privacy leakage in federated learning despite its promise for data privacy.
method Theoretical analysis from linear algebra and optimization theory perspectives.
result Derives sufficient conditions to prevent data reconstruction attacks and establishes an upper bound on privacy leakage.
The calibration of noise for a privacy-preserving mechanism depends on the sensitivity of the query and the prescribed privacy level. A data steward must make the non-trivial choice of a privacy level that balances the requirements of users and the monetary constraints of the business entity. We analyse roles of the so…
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.
A privacy-preserving algorithm for high-dimensional bandits.
problem High-dimensional stochastic contextual linear bandits with sparse parameters under privacy constraints.
method PrivateLASSO algorithm based on sparse hard-thresholding and episodic thresholding.
result Minimax private lower bounds and utility guarantees for PrivateLASSO.
Secure Multiparty Computation protects data privacy in Symbolic Regression.
problem Data privacy in Symbolic Regression models.
method Secure Multiparty Computation for vertical partitioning.
result Comparable performance to centralized model while preserving privacy.
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.
In this paper, we consider a privacy preserving encoding framework for identification applications covering biometrics, physical object security and the Internet of Things (IoT). The proposed framework is based on a sparsifying transform, which consists of a trained linear map, an element-wise nonlinearity, and privacy…
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…
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.
P3LS preserves privacy while integrating data across companies.
problem Privacy concerns in cross-organizational data exchange and integration.
method Privacy-preserving federated learning technique using SVD-based PLS and random masks.
result Improves prediction performance on process-related indicators.
Paper proposes a privacy-preserving RL algorithm for linear MDPs with theoretical guarantees.
problem Protecting users' private data in personalized services using RL.
method Local differential privacy (LDP) for RL with linear function approximation.
result Achieves a regret bound of $O(d^{5/4}H^{7/4}T^{3/4}\left(\log(1/δ)
ight)^{1/4}\sqrt{1/\varepsilon})$ for linear mixture MDPs.