Summary of Noise-aware Differentially Private Variational Inference, by Talal Alrawajfeh et al.
Noise-Aware Differentially Private Variational Inference
by Talal Alrawajfeh, Joonas Jälkö, Antti Honkela
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 addresses a crucial issue in differential privacy (DP), which prioritizes robust privacy guarantees over statistical reliability. Existing noise-aware approaches for approximate Bayesian inference are limited to simple probabilistic models, leading to biased results in downstream applications. The proposed method, stochastic gradient variational inference, integrates DP perturbation into complex models, including high-dimensional and non-conjugate ones. A novel evaluation metric assesses the accuracy of noise-aware posteriors. Empirically, this method matches existing performance in applicable domains and achieves accurate coverages in Bayesian linear regression and well-calibrated predictive probabilities on Bayesian logistic regression using the UCI Adult dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper helps make statistical models more private while still giving good results. Right now, when we prioritize privacy, our models can be unreliable or biased. The authors created a new way to do approximate Bayesian inference that works with complex models and is accurate. They also developed a better way to measure how well this method works. In tests, their method performed similarly to existing methods where it was applicable, and did well on other tasks like predicting outcomes using the Adult dataset. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Bayesian inference » Inference » Linear regression » Logistic regression
