Additive noise protects privacy in releasing datasets for SVM classification.
problem Maintaining privacy in releasing datasets for SVM classification.
method Additive noise applied to obfuscate the dataset, optimizing privacy and utility measures.
result Optimal noise distribution ensures close classifier performance between original and obfuscated datasets, achieving local differential privacy.
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.
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.
The use of inverse probability weighting (IPW) methods to estimate the causal effect of treatments from observational studies is widespread in econometrics, medicine and social sciences. Although these studies often involve sensitive information, thus far there has been no work on privacy-preserving IPW methods. We add…
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.
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 …
Deep Learning techniques have achieved remarkable results in many domains. Often, training deep learning models requires large datasets, which may require sensitive information to be uploaded to the cloud to accelerate training. To adequately protect sensitive information, we propose distributed layer-partitioned train…
Paper proposes scalable privacy-preserving DNN for industrial applications.
problem Data isolation and scalability issues in deep neural networks.
method Split computation graph into private and neutral server parts; use cryptographic techniques for private data.
result Demonstrates practicality of the proposed scalable privacy-preserving DNN.
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.
Privacy-preserving synthetic data from EHRs for learning and inference.
problem Sharing sensitive EHR data while maintaining patient privacy.
method Differentially private normalizing flows for density estimation and variational inference.
result Privacy-preserving synthetic data can yield good utility at a reasonable privacy cost.
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.
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…
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 …
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…
We propose a data-driven framework for optimizing privacy-preserving data release mechanisms to attain the information-theoretically optimal tradeoff between minimizing distortion of useful data and concealing specific sensitive information. Our approach employs adversarially-trained neural networks to implement random…
Despite the impressive performance of random forests (RF), its theoretical properties have not been thoroughly understood. In this paper, we propose a novel RF framework, dubbed multinomial random forest (MRF), to analyze the \emph{consistency} and \emph{privacy-preservation}. Instead of deterministic greedy split rule…
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.
KIP meta-learning compresses datasets significantly.
problem Training data size and quality issues in machine learning.
method Kernel Inducing Points (KIP) for dataset compression.
result Significant reduction in dataset size with similar model performance.
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.
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.
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.
BlockFLow ensures privacy and accountability in federated learning.
problem Malicious agents can weaken federated learning models.
method Differential privacy, auditing mechanism, Ethereum smart contracts.
result Audit scores reflect the quality of honest agents' datasets.
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.
RFAD uses random features to speed up dataset distillation.
problem Efficiently compress large datasets for reduced storage and computation.
method Random feature approximation of the Neural Network Gaussian Process kernel.
result At least 100-fold speedup over KIP with competitive accuracy.
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.
A new method for privacy-preserving data distillation using wavelet features from ScatterNet.
problem Privacy-preserving data distillation for small datasets.
method Differentially private kernel inducing points using wavelet features from ScatterNet.
result Achieves privacy-preserving data distillation with manageable computational cost.
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.
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.
Machine Learning based Quality of Experience (QoE) models potentially suffer from over-fitting due to limitations including low data volume, and limited participant profiles. This prevents models from becoming generic. Consequently, these trained models may under-perform when tested outside the experimented population.…
A framework for privacy-preserving DNN pruning and acceleration.
problem Privacy concerns in DNN weight pruning for mobile devices.
method ADMM-based iterative pruning with synthetic data, compiler optimizations.
result 4.2X, 2.5X, and 2.0X speedup with almost no accuracy loss.
FedSTaS stratifies and samples clients for efficient FL.
problem Inefficient client sampling in federated learning.
method Stratifies clients based on compressed gradients, uses Neyman allocation for sampling, and samples local data uniformly.
result FedSTaS achieves higher accuracy than FedSTS in fixed training rounds.
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.
It is challenging for stochastic optimizations to handle large-scale sensitive data safely. Recently, Duchi et al. proposed private sampling strategy to solve privacy leakage in stochastic optimizations. However, this strategy leads to robustness degeneration, since this strategy is equal to the noise injection on each…
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 presents a privacy-preserving algorithm for estimating peer effects using the Ising model.
problem Privacy concerns in estimating peer effects using network data.
method Developed a (ε,δ)-differentially private algorithm using Ising model. result Established regret bounds and validated performance on synthetic and real-world networks.
PrivacyFL simulates privacy-preserving federated learning.
problem Ensuring privacy in federated learning environments.
method Extensible, configurable simulator for federated learning.
result PrivacyFL checks feasibility and improves model accuracy.
Proposes DP-MERF for privacy-preserving synthetic data generation.
problem Privacy-preserving data generation for synthetic datasets.
method Differentially private mean embeddings with random features.
result Achieves better privacy-utility trade-offs than existing methods.
fedCI and fedCI-IOD enable federated causal discovery across diverse datasets with privacy and power enhancements.
problem Causal discovery across multiple datasets with privacy constraints and heterogeneity.
method federated conditional independence test (fedCI) and Integration of Overlapping Datasets (IOD) algorithm extension (fedCI-IOD).
result fedCI-IOD achieves comparable performance to fully pooled analyses, enhancing statistical power and privacy.
FedGRU uses federated learning to predict traffic flow accurately while preserving user privacy.
problem Developing accurate traffic flow prediction while protecting user privacy.
method Federated Learning, Secure Parameter Aggregation, Joint Announcement Protocol, Ensemble Clustering.
result FedGRU achieves 90.96% higher prediction accuracy than advanced deep learning models.
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 introduces algorithms for private decision tree learning.
problem Private decision tree learning in distributed settings.
method Proposes DP-TopDown, NoisyCounts, and LocalRNM.
result First utility guarantees for private decision tree learning.
FLFE improves machine learning by efficiently and securely transforming features.
problem Efficiently and securely transforming features in a multi-party setting.
method FLFE uses a pre-learning pattern to selectively transform features, reducing communication overhead.
result FLFE outperforms evaluation-based approaches in feature transformation efficiency.
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.
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.
Paper proposes efficient privacy-preserving matrix encryption for secure collaborative learning against malicious adversaries.
problem Secure collaborative learning of sensitive data across different agencies is challenging with malicious adversaries.
method The paper applies matrix encryption to secure data against chosen plaintext attack, known plaintext attack, and collusion attack, achieving local differential privacy and high computation efficiency.
result The proposed schemes are computationally efficient and secure against malicious adversaries compared to existing techniques.
Tensor factorization has been demonstrated as an efficient approach for computational phenotyping, where massive electronic health records (EHRs) are converted to concise and meaningful clinical concepts. While distributing the tensor factorization tasks to local sites can avoid direct data sharing, it still requires t…
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.
Federated Extra-Trees protects privacy while improving machine learning performance.
problem Scattered data and privacy concerns in machine learning.
method Local differential privacy in federated trees model.
result Improved accuracy and robustness in federated machine learning.