Summary of Differential Privacy Under Class Imbalance: Methods and Empirical Insights, by Lucas Rosenblatt et al.
Differential Privacy Under Class Imbalance: Methods and Empirical Insights
by Lucas Rosenblatt, Yuliia Lut, Eitan Turok, Marco Avella-Medina, Rachel Cummings
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers tackle the challenge of imbalanced learning in classification tasks, particularly when dealing with rare events or sensitive training data. They formalize the issue and propose various algorithmic solutions that balance class-label distribution while preserving privacy using differential privacy techniques. These methods include DP-variant pre-processing approaches like oversampling, SMOTE, and private synthetic data generation, as well as in-processing techniques like model bagging, class-weighted empirical risk minimization, and class-weighted deep learning. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of these methods by evaluating them under different settings and find that private synthetic data methods excel as a pre-processing step, while class-weighted ERMs perform better in higher-dimensional spaces. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imbalanced learning is a big problem when trying to predict rare things or detect fraud. When we’re working with sensitive data, it gets even harder because we need to keep the information private. The researchers in this paper came up with some new ways to solve this issue. They looked at different methods to make the class-label distribution more balanced and still keep our data safe. Some of these methods work by changing the original data a bit, while others adjust how we learn from it. The authors tested these methods and found that they can be really helpful in certain situations. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Bagging » Classification » Deep learning » Synthetic data
