Summary of Privacy Without Noisy Gradients: Slicing Mechanism For Generative Model Training, by Kristjan Greenewald et al.
Privacy without Noisy Gradients: Slicing Mechanism for Generative Model Training
by Kristjan Greenewald, Yuancheng Yu, Hao Wang, Kai Xu
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Oct 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 This paper presents a novel approach to training generative models with differential privacy (DP), which has been a challenge in recent years. The authors introduce the slicing privacy mechanism that injects noise into random low-dimensional projections of private data, providing strong privacy guarantees for it. They also propose the smoothed-sliced f-divergence and develop a kernel-based estimator for this divergence, allowing for statistical consistency. The approach is evaluated through extensive numerical experiments, demonstrating improved performance in generating synthetic data compared to baselines. Furthermore, the method offers data scientists flexibility in adjusting generator architecture and hyper-parameters without incurring additional privacy costs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps make it easier to train computers that can create fake data while keeping the real data private. They came up with a new way of doing this called “slicing” that adds noise to some special projections of the private data. This makes it harder for anyone to figure out what the original data was. The authors also made a formula, called “smoothed-sliced f-divergence”, that helps computers learn from this noisy data. They tested their approach and found that it can create more realistic fake data than previous methods. This is important because it means that people can use these computers to generate fake data without worrying about their real data being compromised. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Synthetic data
