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48 results for private machine learning

Algorithm selects public datasets for private machine learning.

problem Choosing the most suitable public dataset for private machine learning.
method Measures gradient subspace distance between public and private datasets.
result Excess risk scales with the subspace distance between gradients.

Differentially private hyperparameter tuning improves privacy in machine learning.

problem Hyperparameter tuning leaks private information through selected configurations.
method Local Bayesian optimization using Gaussian Process surrogate for private gradient approximation.
result DP-GIBO converges to locally optimal hyperparameters with polynomial dimensional dependence.

A model for human-machine decision-making with private info and opacity.

problem Optimizing decisions in a human-machine system with private info and opacity.
method Formulated as a two-player learning problem, proved lower and upper bounds on optimality.
result Simple coordination strategy is nearly minimax optimal, efficient learning possible under certain assumptions.

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.

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.

Locally private reinforcement learning protects individual environments from reverse engineering.

problem Protecting private information in distributed reinforcement learning environments.
method Locally differentially private algorithms that protect local agents' models from adversarial reverse engineering.
result Demonstrated that the proposed algorithm performs well under local differential privacy (LDP).

Differentially private learning on real-world data poses challenges for standard machine learning practice: privacy guarantees are difficult to interpret, hyperparameter tuning on private data reduces the privacy budget, and ad-hoc privacy attacks are often required to test model privacy. We introduce three tools to ma…

2018-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Due to massive amounts of data distributed across multiple locations, distributed machine learning has attracted a lot of research interests. Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful method of designing distributed machine learning algorithm, whereby each agent computes over local datasets and e…

2019-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Publicly pretraining models on Web data may undermine differential privacy.

problem The use of large Web-scraped datasets in differential privacy models.
method Critical review of leveraging pretrained models on public datasets for differential privacy.
result Publicizing pretrained models as 'private' could harm trust and generalize poorly.

FPFL mitigates unfairness in private federated learning.

problem Differential privacy degrades model performance on under-represented groups.
method Extends modified method of differential multipliers to private federated learning.
result FPFL reduces unfairness in trained models on private federated learning.

New algorithm improves privacy in high-dimensional machine learning models.

problem Privacy issues in learning large machine learning models.
method Differentially private greedy coordinate descent (DP-GCD) algorithm.
result Achieves logarithmic dependence on dimension for quasi-sparse solutions.

Bayesian optimization is a powerful tool for fine-tuning the hyper-parameters of a wide variety of machine learning models. The success of machine learning has led practitioners in diverse real-world settings to learn classifiers for practical problems. As machine learning becomes commonplace, Bayesian optimization bec…

2015-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Privacy preserving machine learning algorithms are crucial for learning models over user data to protect sensitive information. Motivated by this, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms for training machine learning models have been proposed. At each step, these algorithms modify the gradie…

2019-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Differentially private algorithms protect model explanations from leaking training data.

problem Model explanations can leak training data, compromising privacy.
method Adaptive differentially private gradient descent algorithm to produce accurate, private explanations.
result Privacy amplification and reduction of overall privacy loss on explanation data.

Differentially private random block coordinate descent improves utility in machine learning.

problem Lack of privacy in classical CD methods when handling sensitive information.
method Proposes a differentially private random block coordinate descent method using sketch matrices and importance sampling.
result Demonstrates improved convergence rates and utility guarantees compared to non-private methods.

PASS protects private attributes by stochastically substituting data.

problem Protecting private attributes in ML services while maintaining data utility.
method PASS uses stochastic data substitution with a novel loss function derived from information theory.
result PASS effectively protects private attributes across various datasets.

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.

Data is continuously generated by modern data sources, and a recent challenge in machine learning has been to develop techniques that perform well in an incremental (streaming) setting. In this paper, we investigate the problem of private machine learning, where as common in practice, the data is not given at once, but…

2017-01-04abs ↗pdf ↗

The rise of connected personal devices together with privacy concerns call for machine learning algorithms capable of leveraging the data of a large number of agents to learn personalized models under strong privacy requirements. In this paper, we introduce an efficient algorithm to address the above problem in a fully…

2017-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

DP-RandP improves privacy-utility tradeoff in DP-SGD by learning priors from random processes.

problem Improving the performance of differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) on private data.
method A three-phase approach that learns priors from images generated by random processes and transfers these priors to private data.
result New state-of-the-art accuracy on CIFAR10, CIFAR100, MedMNIST, and ImageNet for various privacy budgets.

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 …

2018-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved privacy and utility in machine learning with adaptive differential privacy.

problem Enhancing privacy in machine learning models while maintaining utility.
method Adaptive differentially private (ADP) learning method that optimally adapts noise to stepsize.
result ADP method significantly improves utility compared to standard differentially private methods.

One-pass private sketch supports various machine learning tasks.

problem Efficiently supporting multiple machine learning tasks with differential privacy.
method Randomized contingency tables indexed with locality-sensitive hashing, constructed in one pass.
result Competitive error bounds for DP kernel density estimation, faster than existing methods.

This paper addresses privacy concerns in ratio statistics using differential privacy.

problem Privacy concerns in ratio statistics across machine learning areas.
method Develops a simple algorithm for differentially private ratio statistics, proving consistency and constructing confidence intervals.
result A simple algorithm can provide excellent privacy, sample accuracy, and bias properties in ratio statistics.

Study differentially private methods for learning Hawkes processes.

problem Lack of thorough analysis on sample complexity for learning Hawkes processes parameters and releasing differentially private versions.
method Developed non-private and differentially private estimators for Hawkes processes parameters.
result Obtained sample complexity results for both private and non-private settings.

This work makes federated Bayesian learning differentially private.

problem Privacy concerns in federated learning with diverse data and computational constraints.
method Modified Partitioned Variational Inference (PVI) to ensure differential privacy.
result Moderately private logistic regression models can be learned in the federated setting with similar performance to non-privately trained models.