학술논문

Privacy Enhancing Machine Learning via Removal of Unwanted Dependencies
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems IEEE Trans. Neural Netw. Learning Syst. Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 34(6):3019-3033 Jun, 2023
Subject
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
General Topics for Engineers
Data privacy
Data models
Privacy
Predictive models
Kernel
Correlation
Training
Adversarial learning
data privacy
dimension reduction
Kernel methods
representation learning
Language
ISSN
2162-237X
2162-2388
Abstract
The rapid rise of IoT and Big Data has facilitated copious data-driven applications to enhance our quality of life. However, the omnipresent and all-encompassing nature of the data collection can generate privacy concerns. Hence, there is a strong need to develop techniques that ensure the data serve only the intended purposes, giving users control over the information they share. To this end, this article studies new variants of supervised and adversarial learning methods, which remove the sensitive information in the data before they are sent out for a particular application. The explored methods optimize privacy-preserving feature mappings and predictive models simultaneously in an end-to-end fashion. Additionally, the models are built with an emphasis on placing little computational burden on the user side so that the data can be desensitized on device in a cheap manner. Experimental results on mobile sensing and face datasets demonstrate that our models can successfully maintain the utility performances of predictive models while causing sensitive predictions to perform poorly.