Summary of Bi-cryptonets: Leveraging Different-level Privacy For Encrypted Inference, by Man-jie Yuan et al.
Bi-CryptoNets: Leveraging Different-Level Privacy for Encrypted Inference
by Man-Jie Yuan, Zheng Zou, Wei Gao
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach to privacy-preserving neural networks, focusing on decomposing input data into sensitive and insensitive segments. The sensitive segment contains private information like human faces, which is secured using strong homomorphic encryption, while the insensitive segment includes background information with added perturbations. To process these two segments, the authors introduce bi-CryptoNets, featuring plaintext and ciphertext branches connected via unidirectional links. Knowledge distillation is employed to train the bi-CryptoNets by transferring representations from a well-trained teacher network. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in reducing inference latency while maintaining privacy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re trying to keep your personal information private, like photos of your family and friends. This paper shows how to use special computer networks called neural networks to keep that information safe. They break down the pictures into two parts: the important and private bits (like faces) are kept super secure using a strong code, while the less important background is added some “noise” to make it harder to recognize. The researchers then created new neural networks that can handle these two types of data separately, making sure the sensitive information stays safe. They tested this approach and found it works well, keeping your personal info private while still being able to analyze the pictures quickly. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Inference * Knowledge distillation
