On Mitigating the Utility-Loss in Differentially Private Learning: A new
Perspective by a Geometrically Inspired Kernel Approach
(2023)cite arxiv:2304.01300.Abstract
Privacy-utility tradeoff remains as one of the fundamental issues of
differentially private machine learning. This paper introduces a geometrically
inspired kernel-based approach to mitigate the accuracy-loss issue in
classification. In this approach, a representation of the affine hull of given
data points is learned in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS). This leads
to a novel distance measure that hides privacy-sensitive information about
individual data points and improves the privacy-utility tradeoff via
significantly reducing the risk of membership inference attacks. The
effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated through experiments on MNIST
dataset, Freiburg groceries dataset, and a real biomedical dataset. It is
verified that the approach remains computationally practical. The application
of the approach to federated learning is considered and it is observed that the
accuracy-loss due to data being distributed is either marginal or not
significantly high.