2019/01/08 by Anh T. Pham, Shalini Ghosh, Pham, Anh T. +3
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing #Privacy, Security, and Data Protection #Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1901.02185
openalex publication_date 2019/01/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study the problem of data release with privacy, where data is made available with privacy guarantees while keeping the usability of the data as high as possible --- this is important in health-care and other domains with sensitive data. In particular, we propose a method of masking the private data with privacy guarantee while ensuring that a classifier trained on the masked data is similar to the classifier trained on the original data, to maintain usability. We analyze the theoretical risks of the proposed method and the traditional input perturbation method. Results show that the proposed method achieves lower risk compared to the input perturbation, especially when the number of training samples gets large. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method of data masking for privacy-sensitive learning on 12 benchmark datasets.