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Differentially private stochastic gradient descent algorithm for multiparty classification

Rajkumar, Arun and Agarwal, Shivani (2012) Differentially private stochastic gradient descent algorithm for multiparty classification. In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS-12), Apr 21, 2012, La Palma, Canary Islands.

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Abstract

We consider the problem of developing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms in a dis-tributed multiparty setting. Here different parties own different parts of a data set, and the goal is to learn a classifier from the entire data set with-out any party revealing any information about the individual data points it owns. Pathak et al [7]recently proposed a solution to this problem in which each party learns a local classifier from its own data, and a third party then aggregates these classifiers in a privacy-preserving manner using a cryptographic scheme. The generaliza-tion performance of their algorithm is sensitive to the number of parties and the relative frac-tions of data owned by the different parties. In this paper, we describe a new differentially pri-vate algorithm for the multiparty setting that uses a stochastic gradient descent based procedure to directly optimize the overall multiparty ob-jective rather than combining classifiers learned from optimizing local objectives. The algorithm achieves a slightly weaker form of differential privacy than that of [7], but provides improved generalization guarantees that do not depend on the number of parties or the relative sizes of the individual data sets. Experimental results corrob-orate our theoretical findings.

Item Type: Conference Paper
Publisher: JMLR
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to JMLR.
Department/Centre: Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited: 19 Nov 2013 06:35
Last Modified: 19 Nov 2013 06:35
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/47772

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