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Learning across Data Owners with Joint Differential Privacy

Machine Learning 2023-05-26 v1 Cryptography and Security Optimization and Control

Abstract

In this paper, we study the setting in which data owners train machine learning models collaboratively under a privacy notion called joint differential privacy [Kearns et al., 2018]. In this setting, the model trained for each data owner jj uses jj's data without privacy consideration and other owners' data with differential privacy guarantees. This setting was initiated in [Jain et al., 2021] with a focus on linear regressions. In this paper, we study this setting for stochastic convex optimization (SCO). We present an algorithm that is a variant of DP-SGD [Song et al., 2013; Abadi et al., 2016] and provides theoretical bounds on its population loss. We compare our algorithm to several baselines and discuss for what parameter setups our algorithm is more preferred. We also empirically study joint differential privacy in the multi-class classification problem over two public datasets. Our empirical findings are well-connected to the insights from our theoretical results.

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@article{arxiv.2305.15723,
  title  = {Learning across Data Owners with Joint Differential Privacy},
  author = {Yangsibo Huang and Haotian Jiang and Daogao Liu and Mohammad Mahdian and Jieming Mao and Vahab Mirrokni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.15723},
  year   = {2023}
}
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