Differentially private GANs have proven to be a promising approach for generating realistic synthetic data without compromising the privacy of individuals. Due to the privacy-protective noise introduced in the training, the convergence of GANs becomes even more elusive, which often leads to poor utility in the output generator at the end of training. We propose Private post-GAN boosting (Private PGB), a differentially private method that combines samples produced by the sequence of generators obtained during GAN training to create a high-quality synthetic dataset. To that end, our method leverages the Private Multiplicative Weights method (Hardt and Rothblum, 2010) to reweight generated samples. We evaluate Private PGB on two dimensional toy data, MNIST images, US Census data and a standard machine learning prediction task. Our experiments show that Private PGB improves upon a standard private GAN approach across a collection of quality measures. We also provide a non-private variant of PGB that improves the data quality of standard GAN training.
Tsinghua University(清华大学);Harvard University(哈佛大学);University of California, Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校);Huazhong University of Science and Technology(华中科技大学);Virginia Tech(弗吉尼亚理工大学)
Deep learning techniques have achieved remarkable performance in wide-ranging tasks. However, when trained on privacy-sensitive datasets, the model parameters may expose private information in training data. Prior attempts for differentially private training, although offering rigorous privacy guarantees, lead to much lower model performance than the non-private ones. Besides, different runs of the same training algorithm produce models with large performance variance. To address these issues, we propose DPlis--Differentially Private Learning wIth Smoothing. The core idea of DPlis is to constr…
Boston University(波士顿大学);Simon Fraser University(西蒙弗雷泽大学);University of California, San Diego(加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校)
We introduce a simple framework for designing private boosting algorithms. We give natural conditions under which these algorithms are differentially private, efficient, and noise-tolerant PAC learners. To demonstrate our framework, we use it to construct noise-tolerant and private PAC learners for large-margin halfspaces whose sample complexity does not depend on the dimension. We give two sample complexity bounds for our large-margin halfspace learner. One bound is based only on differential privacy, and uses this guarantee as an asset for ensuring generalization. This first bound illustrate…
Michigan State University(密歇根州立大学);Rutgers University(罗格斯大学);Weill Cornell Medical School(威尔康奈尔医学院)
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants have recently attracted intensive research interests due to their elegant theoretical foundation and excellent empirical performance as generative models. These tools provide a promising direction in the studies where data availability is limited. One common issue in GANs is that the density of the learned generative distribution could concentrate on the training data points, meaning that they can easily remember training samples due to the high model complexity of deep networks. This becomes a major concern when GANs are applied to private…
A key factor in developing high performing machine learning models is the availability of sufficiently large datasets. This work is motivated by applications arising in Software as a Service (SaaS) companies where there exist numerous similar yet disjoint datasets from multiple client companies. To overcome the challenges of insufficient data without explicitly aggregating the clients' datasets due to privacy concerns, one solution is to collect more data for each individual client, another is to privately aggregate information from models trained on each client's data. In this work, two appro…
Nanjing University of Science and Technology(南京理工大学);Data61, CSIRO(澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织 Data61);University of Technology Sydney(悉尼科技大学);Jinan University(暨南大学);Princeton University(普林斯顿大学)
Generative adversarial network (GAN) has attracted increasing attention recently owing to its impressive ability to generate realistic samples with high privacy protection. Without directly interactive with training examples, the generative model can be fully used to estimate the underlying distribution of an original dataset while the discriminative model can examine the quality of the generated samples by comparing the label values with the training examples. However, when GANs are applied on sensitive or private training examples, such as medical or financial records, it is still probable t…
University of California Davis(加州大学戴维斯分校);University of Kentucky(肯塔基大学)
To protect sensitive data in training a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), the standard approach is to use differentially private (DP) stochastic gradient descent method in which controlled noise is added to the gradients. The quality of the output synthetic samples can be adversely affected and the training of the network may not even converge in the presence of these noises. We propose Differentially Private Model Inversion (DPMI) method where the private data is first mapped to the latent space via a public generator, followed by a lower-dimensional DP-GAN with better convergent properti…
Georgia State University(佐治亚州立大学);Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS(中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院)
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have promoted a variety of applications in computer vision, natural language processing, etc. due to its generative model's compelling ability to generate realistic examples plausibly drawn from an existing distribution of samples. GAN not only provides impressive performance on data generation-based tasks but also stimulates fertilization for privacy and security oriented research because of its game theoretic optimization strategy. Unfortunately, there are no comprehensive surveys on GAN in privacy and security, which motivates this survey paper to summa…
Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.(平安科技(深圳)有限公司);School of Economics and Finance, Shanghai International Studies University(上海外国语大学经济与金融学院)
Nonparallel multi-domain voice conversion methods such as the StarGAN-VCs have been widely applied in many scenarios. However, the training of these models usually poses a challenge due to their complicated adversarial network architectures. To address this, in this work we leverage the state-of-the-art contrastive learning techniques and incorporate an efficient Siamese network structure into the StarGAN discriminator. Our method is called SimSiam-StarGAN-VC and it boosts the training stability and effectively prevents the discriminator overfitting issue in the training process. We conduct ex…
Data61(数据61中心);the Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学)
Boosted ensemble of decision tree (DT) classifiers are extremely popular in international competitions, yet to our knowledge nothing is formally known on how to make them \textit{also} differential private (DP), up to the point that random forests currently reign supreme in the DP stage. Our paper starts with the proof that the privacy vs boosting picture for DT involves a notable and general technical tradeoff: the sensitivity tends to increase with the boosting rate of the loss, for any proper loss. DT induction algorithms being fundamentally iterative, our finding implies non-trivial choice…
University of California, Santa Cruz(加州大学圣克鲁兹分校);Google AI(谷歌人工智能)
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are one of the well-known models to generate synthetic data including images, especially for research communities that cannot use original sensitive datasets because they are not publicly accessible. One of the main challenges in this area is to preserve the privacy of individuals who participate in the training of the GAN models. To address this challenge, we introduce a Differentially Private Conditional GAN (DP-CGAN) training framework based on a new clipping and perturbation strategy, which improves the performance of the model while preserving privac…
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems(马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所);Google Brain(谷歌大脑)
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) (Goodfellow et al., 2014) are an effective method for training generative models of complex data such as natural images. However, they are notoriously hard to train and can suffer from the problem of missing modes where the model is not able to produce examples in certain regions of the space. We propose an iterative procedure, called AdaGAN, where at every step we add a new component into a mixture model by running a GAN algorithm on a reweighted sample. This is inspired by boosting algorithms, where many potentially weak individual predictors are greedil…
Anomaly detection is often considered a challenging field of machine learning due to the difficulty of obtaining anomalous samples for training and the need to obtain a sufficient amount of training data. In recent years, autoencoders have been shown to be effective anomaly detectors that train only on "normal" data. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been used to generate additional training samples for classifiers, thus making them more accurate and robust. However, in anomaly detection GANs are only used to reconstruct existing samples rather than to generate additional ones. This …
Recently, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated their potential in federated learning, i.e., learning a centralized model from data privately hosted by multiple sites. A federatedGAN jointly trains a centralized generator and multiple private discriminators hosted at different sites. A major theoretical challenge for the federated GAN is the heterogeneity of the local data distributions. Traditional approaches cannot guarantee to learn the target distribution, which isa mixture of the highly different local distributions. This paper tackles this theoretical challenge, and fo…
Purdue University(普渡大学);Novartis(诺华);Oxford Big Data Institute(牛津大数据研究所)
Sharing data from clinical studies can facilitate innovative data-driven research and ultimately lead to better public health. However, sharing biomedical data can put sensitive personal information at risk. This is usually solved by anonymization, which is a slow and expensive process. An alternative to anonymization is sharing a synthetic dataset that bears a behaviour similar to the real data but preserves privacy. As part of the collaboration between Novartis and the Oxford Big Data Institute, we generate a synthetic dataset based on COSENTYX (secukinumab) Ankylosing Spondylitis clinical s…
University of Rome - La Sapienza(罗马大学);Stevens Institute of Technology(史蒂文斯理工学院)
Deep Learning has recently become hugely popular in machine learning, providing significant improvements in classification accuracy in the presence of highly-structured and large databases. Researchers have also considered privacy implications of deep learning. Models are typically trained in a centralized manner with all the data being processed by the same training algorithm. If the data is a collection of users' private data, including habits, personal pictures, geographical positions, interests, and more, the centralized server will have access to sensitive information that could potential…
Cyberspace occupies a large portion of people's life in the age of modern technology, and while there are those who utilize it for good, there are also those who do not. Malware is an application whose construction was not motivated by a benign goal and it can harm, steal, or even alter personal information and secure applications and software. Thus, there are numerous techniques to avoid malware, one of which is to develop samples of malware so that the system can be updated with the growing number of malwares, allowing it to recognize when malwares attempt to enter. The Generative Adversaria…
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made releasing of synthetic images a viable approach to share data without releasing the original dataset. It has been shown that such synthetic data can be used for a variety of downstream tasks such as training classifiers that would otherwise require the original dataset to be shared. However, recent work has shown that the GAN models and their synthetically generated data can be used to infer the training set membership by an adversary who has access to the entire dataset and some auxiliary information. Current approaches to mitigate this problem…
TU Delft(代尔夫特理工大学);ABB Research Switzerland(ABB瑞士研究院)
Tabular generative adversarial networks (TGAN) have recently emerged to cater to the need of synthesizing tabular data -- the most widely used data format. While synthetic tabular data offers the advantage of complying with privacy regulations, there still exists a risk of privacy leakage via inference attacks due to interpolating the properties of real data during training. Differential private (DP) training algorithms provide theoretical guarantees for training machine learning models by injecting statistical noise to prevent privacy leaks. However, the challenges of applying DP on TGAN are …
Boston University(波士顿大学);Tel Aviv University(特拉维夫大学);Google AI Princeton(谷歌AI普林斯顿);Princeton University(普林斯顿大学)
We prove that every concept class with finite Littlestone dimension can be learned by an (approximate) differentially-private algorithm. This answers an open question of Alon et al. (STOC 2019) who proved the converse statement (this question was also asked by Neel et al.~(FOCS 2019)). Together these two results yield an equivalence between online learnability and private PAC learnability. We introduce a new notion of algorithmic stability called "global stability" which is essential to our proof and may be of independent interest. We also discuss an application of our results to boosting the …
J.P. Morgan AI Research(摩根大通人工智能研究院);Index Exchange(Index Exchange(索引交易所))
Deep generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), synthesize diverse high-fidelity data samples by estimating the underlying distribution of high dimensional data. Despite their success, GANs may disclose private information from the data they are trained on, making them susceptible to adversarial attacks such as membership inference attacks, in which an adversary aims to determine if a record was part of the training set. We propose an information theoretically motivated regularization term that prevents the generative model from overfitting to training data and encourag…
Xidian University(西安电子科技大学);Fuzhou University(福州大学);National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra(库鲁克谢特拉国家技术学院)
The application of federated extreme gradient boosting to mobile crowdsensing apps brings several benefits, in particular high performance on efficiency and classification. However, it also brings a new challenge for data and model privacy protection. Besides it being vulnerable to Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based user data reconstruction attack, there is not the existing architecture that considers how to preserve model privacy. In this paper, we propose a secret sharing based federated learning architecture FedXGB to achieve the privacy-preserving extreme gradient boosting for mobi…
In machine learning, boosting is one of the most popular methods that designed to combine multiple base learners to a superior one. The well-known Boosted Decision Tree classifier, has been widely adopted in many areas. In the big data era, the data held by individual and entities, like personal images, browsing history and census information, are more likely to contain sensitive information. The privacy concern raises when such data leaves the hand of the owners and be further explored or mined. Such privacy issue demands that the machine learning algorithm should be privacy aware. Recently, …
Georgia Institute of Technology(佐治亚理工学院);University of Enna(恩纳大学);NTNU(挪威科技大学)
We propose using an adversarial autoencoder (AAE) to replace generative adversarial network (GAN) in the private aggregation of teacher ensembles (PATE), a solution for ensuring differential privacy in speech applications. The AAE architecture allows us to obtain good synthetic speech leveraging upon a discriminative training of latent vectors. Such synthetic speech is used to build a privacy-preserving classifier when non-sensitive data is not sufficiently available in the public domain. This classifier follows the PATE scheme that uses an ensemble of noisy outputs to label the synthetic samp…
National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);The University of Western Australia(西澳大学)
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 of differential private models. Existing solutions for GBDT with differential privacy suffer from the significant accuracy loss due to too loose sensitivity bounds and ineffective privacy budget allocations (especially across different trees in the GBDT model). Loose sensitivity b…
Certain facial parts are salient (unique) in appearance, which substantially contribute to the holistic recognition of a subject. Occlusion of these salient parts deteriorates the performance of face recognition algorithms. In this paper, we propose a generative model to reconstruct the missing parts of the face which are under occlusion. The proposed generative model (SD-GAN) reconstructs a face preserving the illumination variation and identity of the face. A novel adversarial training algorithm has been designed for a bimodal mutually exclusive Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) model, fo…
In this paper, we aim to understand the generalization properties of generative adversarial networks (GANs) from a new perspective of privacy protection. Theoretically, we prove that a differentially private learning algorithm used for training the GAN does not overfit to a certain degree, i.e., the generalization gap can be bounded. Moreover, some recent works, such as the Bayesian GAN, can be re-interpreted based on our theoretical insight from privacy protection. Quantitatively, to evaluate the information leakage of well-trained GAN models, we perform various membership attacks on these mo…
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the greatest advances in AI in recent years. With their ability to directly learn the probability distribution of data, and then sample synthetic realistic data. Many applications have emerged, using GANs to solve classical problems in machine learning, such as data augmentation, class unbalance problems, and fair representation learning. In this paper, we analyze and highlight fairness concerns of GANs model. In this regard, we show empirically that GANs models may inherently prefer certain groups during the training process and therefore they…
The privacy implications of generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a topic of great interest, leading to several recent algorithms for training GANs with privacy guarantees. By drawing connections to the generalization properties of GANs, we prove that under some assumptions, GAN-generated samples inherently satisfy some (weak) privacy guarantees. First, we show that if a GAN is trained on m samples and used to generate n samples, the generated samples are (epsilon, delta)-differentially-private for (epsilon, delta) pairs where delta scales as O(n/m). We show that under some special condit…
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security(CISPA亥姆霍兹信息安全中心);Max Planck Institute for Informatics(马克斯·普朗克信息学研究所)
The wide-spread availability of rich data has fueled the growth of machine learning applications in numerous domains. However, growth in domains with highly-sensitive data (e.g., medical) is largely hindered as the private nature of data prohibits it from being shared. To this end, we propose Gradient-sanitized Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (GS-WGAN), which allows releasing a sanitized form of the sensitive data with rigorous privacy guarantees. In contrast to prior work, our approach is able to distort gradient information more precisely, and thereby enabling training deeper mod…
Heilongjiang University(黑龙江大学);Southern University of Science and Technology(南方科技大学)
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants serve as a perfect representation of the data generation model, providing researchers with a large amount of high-quality generated data. They illustrate a promising direction for research with limited data availability. When GAN learns the semantic-rich data distribution from a dataset, the density of the generated distribution tends to concentrate on the training data. Due to the gradient parameters of the deep neural network contain the data distribution of the training samples, they can easily remember the training samples. When GAN is …
Early detection of breast cancer in mammography screening via deep-learning based computer-aided detection systems shows promising potential in improving the curability and mortality rates of breast cancer. However, many clinical centres are restricted in the amount and heterogeneity of available data to train such models to (i) achieve promising performance and to (ii) generalise well across acquisition protocols and domains. As sharing data between centres is restricted due to patient privacy concerns, we propose a potential solution: sharing trained generative models between centres as subs…
Old Dominion University(欧道明大学);Jefferson Lab(杰斐逊实验室);Davidson College(戴维森学院);University of Dallas(达拉斯大学)
We apply generative adversarial network (GAN) technology to build an event generator that simulates particle production in electron-proton scattering that is free of theoretical assumptions about underlying particle dynamics. The difficulty of efficiently training a GAN event simulator lies in learning the complicated patterns of the distributions of the particles physical properties. We develop a GAN that selects a set of transformed features from particle momenta that can be generated easily by the generator, and uses these to produce a set of augmented features that improve the sensitivity …
Université Laval(拉瓦尔大学);Brigham Young University(杨百翰大学)
Due to confidentiality issues, it can be difficult to access or share interesting datasets for methodological development in actuarial science, or other fields where personal data are important. We show how to design three different types of generative adversarial networks (GANs) that can build a synthetic insurance dataset from a confidential original dataset. The goal is to obtain synthetic data that no longer contains sensitive information but still has the same structure as the original dataset and retains the multivariate relationships. In order to adequately model the specific characteri…
BBC Research & Development(英国广播公司研究与发展部);Dublin City University(都柏林城市大学)
In this work recent advances in conditional adversarial networks are investigated to develop an end-to-end architecture based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to directly map realistic colours to an input greyscale image. Observing that existing colourisation methods sometimes exhibit a lack of colourfulness, this paper proposes a method to improve colourisation results. In particular, the method uses Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs) and focuses on improvement of training stability to enable better generalisation in large multi-class image datasets. Additionally, the integr…
Data61, CSIRO(澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织数据61所);The Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学);The University of Sydney(悉尼大学)
There has recently been a steady increase in the number iterative approaches to density estimation. However, an accompanying burst of formal convergence guarantees has not followed; all results pay the price of heavy assumptions which are often unrealistic or hard to check. The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) literature --- seemingly orthogonal to the aforementioned pursuit --- has had the side effect of a renewed interest in variational divergence minimisation (notably $f$-GAN). We show that by introducing a weak learning assumption (in the sense of the classical boosting framework) we a…
The proliferation of smart, connected, always listening devices have introduced significant privacy risks to users in a smart home environment. Beyond the notable risk of eavesdropping, intruders can adopt machine learning techniques to infer sensitive information from audio recordings on these devices, resulting in a new dimension of privacy concerns and attack variables to smart home users. Techniques such as sound masking and microphone jamming have been effectively used to prevent eavesdroppers from listening in to private conversations. In this study, we explore the problem of adversaries…
University of New South Wales(新南威尔士大学);School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering(矿物与能源资源工程学院)
Digital Rock Imaging is constrained by detector hardware, and a trade-off between the image field of view (FOV) and the image resolution must be made. This can be compensated for with super resolution (SR) techniques that take a wide FOV, low resolution (LR) image, and super resolve a high resolution (HR), high FOV image. The Enhanced Deep Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (EDSRGAN) is trained on the Deep Learning Digital Rock Super Resolution Dataset, a diverse compilation 12000 of raw and processed uCT images. The network shows comparable performance of 50% to 70% reduction in …
Improved Differentially Private Regression via Gradient Boosting
Amazon AWS AI/ML(亚马逊AWS人工智能/机器学习部门);University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学);University of California, Santa Barbara(加州大学圣巴巴拉分校);Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学)
While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) achieve spectacular results on unstructured data like images, there is still a gap on tabular data, data for which state of the art supervised learning still favours to a large extent decision tree (DT)-based models. This paper proposes a new path forward for the generation of tabular data, exploiting decades-old understanding of the supervised task's best components for DT induction, from losses (properness), models (tree-based) to algorithms (boosting). The \textit{properness} condition on the supervised loss -- which postulates the optimality of …
Machine learning has been applied to almost all fields of computer science over the past decades. The introduction of GANs allowed for new possibilities in fields of medical research and text prediction. However, these new fields work with ever more privacy-sensitive data. In order to maintain user privacy, a combination of federated learning, differential privacy and GANs can be used to work with private data without giving away a users' privacy. Recently, two implementations of such combinations have been published: DP-Fed-Avg GAN and GS-WGAN. This paper compares their performance and introd…
NAVER LABS Europe(NAVER 欧洲实验室);Bilkent University(比尔肯特大学);Middle East Technical University(中东技术大学);Case Western Reserve University(凯斯西储大学)
Large-scale datasets play a fundamental role in training deep learning models. However, dataset collection is difficult in domains that involve sensitive information. Collaborative learning techniques provide a privacy-preserving solution, by enabling training over a number of private datasets that are not shared by their owners. However, recently, it has been shown that the existing collaborative learning frameworks are vulnerable to an active adversary that runs a generative adversarial network (GAN) attack. In this work, we propose a novel classification model that is resilient against such…
Renmin University of China(中国人民大学);Kyoto University(京都大学)
Federated Learning (FL) is a promising machine learning paradigm that enables the analyzer to train a model without collecting users' raw data. To ensure users' privacy, differentially private federated learning has been intensively studied. The existing works are mainly based on the \textit{curator model} or \textit{local model} of differential privacy. However, both of them have pros and cons. The curator model allows greater accuracy but requires a trusted analyzer. In the local model where users randomize local data before sending them to the analyzer, a trusted analyzer is not required bu…
Distributed devices such as mobile phones can produce and store large amounts of data that can enhance machine learning models; however, this data may contain private information specific to the data owner that prevents the release of the data. We wish to reduce the correlation between user-specific private information and data while maintaining the useful information. Rather than learning a large model to achieve privatization from end to end, we introduce a decoupling of the creation of a latent representation and the privatization of data that allows user-specific privatization to occur in …
For a data holder, such as a hospital or a government entity, who has a privately held collection of personal data, in which the revealing and/or processing of the personal identifiable data is restricted and prohibited by law. Then, "how can we ensure the data holder does conceal the identity of each individual in the imagery of personal data while still preserving certain useful aspects of the data after de-identification?" becomes a challenge issue. In this work, we propose an approach towards high-resolution facial image de-identification, called k-Same-Siamese-GAN, which leverages the k-S…
Infant Research Centre(婴儿研究中心);School of Computing(计算学院);Dublin City University(都柏林城市大学);ByteDance AI Lab(字节跳动人工智能实验室);Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics(Insight SFI数据分析研究中心)
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) studies have grown exponentially in the past few years. Their impact has been seen mainly in the computer vision field with realistic image and video manipulation, especially generation, making significant advancements. While these computer vision advances have garnered much attention, GAN applications have diversified across disciplines such as time series and sequence generation. As a relatively new niche for GANs, fieldwork is ongoing to develop high quality, diverse and private time series data. In this paper, we review GAN variants designed for time …
Emory University(埃默里大学);University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston(德克萨斯大学休斯顿健康科学中心)
Deep learning models trained on large-scale data have achieved encouraging performance in many real-world tasks. Meanwhile, publishing those models trained on sensitive datasets, such as medical records, could pose serious privacy concerns. To counter these issues, one of the current state-of-the-art approaches is the Private Aggregation of Teacher Ensembles, or PATE, which achieved promising results in preserving the utility of the model while providing a strong privacy guarantee. PATE combines an ensemble of "teacher models" trained on sensitive data and transfers the knowledge to a "student…
This work presents Origami, which provides privacy-preserving inference for large deep neural network (DNN) models through a combination of enclave execution, cryptographic blinding, interspersed with accelerator-based computation. Origami partitions the ML model into multiple partitions. The first partition receives the encrypted user input within an SGX enclave. The enclave decrypts the input and then applies cryptographic blinding to the input data and the model parameters. Cryptographic blinding is a technique that adds noise to obfuscate data. Origami sends the obfuscated data for computa…