Summary of Pfguard: a Generative Framework with Privacy and Fairness Safeguards, by Soyeon Kim et al.
PFGuard: A Generative Framework with Privacy and Fairness Safeguards
by Soyeon Kim, Yuji Roh, Geon Heo, Steven Euijong Whang
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel generative framework, PFGuard, which combines privacy and fairness safeguards to achieve Trustworthy AI. While existing techniques focus on one goal or the other, PFGuard addresses both simultaneously by using an ensemble of multiple teacher models. This approach balances privacy-fairness conflicts between fair and private training stages, achieving high utility based on ensemble learning. The framework is evaluated through extensive experiments, demonstrating successful generation of synthetic data on high-dimensional datasets while providing DP guarantees and convergence in fair generative modeling. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary PFGuard is a new way to create fake data that keeps people’s privacy safe and makes sure it’s fair. Right now, there are two main goals: keeping things private and making sure everything is fair. Some researchers have tried combining these techniques, but they haven’t been very effective because they can conflict with each other. For example, if you’re trying to make sure something is fair for a group of people who are usually treated unfairly, you might accidentally make it so that someone’s personal information gets revealed. This paper shows how these conflicts can happen and proposes a new way to fix the problem called PFGuard. It uses multiple teacher models working together to balance the conflicts between keeping things private and making sure everything is fair. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Synthetic data
