Differential Privacy and Machine Learning

How Does Differential Privacy Work in Machine Learning?

Implementing differential privacy in machine learning involves methods that integrate privacy protection directly into the learning process. Common techniques include:

  • Output Perturbation: Adding noise to the output of a learning algorithm, effectively masking the influence of any single data point.

  • Objective Perturbation: Altering the objective function of the learning algorithm by introducing a noise component, thus ensuring that the learning process itself preserves privacy.

  • Gradient Perturbation: Particularly in algorithms like stochastic gradient descent, adding noise to the gradients used for learning to prevent any individual data point from having a significant influence on the model. These methods help in training machine learning models that not only respect the privacy of individual data points but also maintain good generalisation performance.

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