no code implementations • NAACL (PrivateNLP) 2021 • Samuel Adams, David Melanson, Martine De Cock
Text classifiers are regularly applied to personal texts, leaving users of these classifiers vulnerable to privacy breaches.
1 code implementation • 8 Feb 2022 • Sikha Pentyala, David Melanson, Martine De Cock, Golnoosh Farnadi
Machine learning (ML) has become prominent in applications that directly affect people's quality of life, including in healthcare, justice, and finance.
no code implementations • 5 Feb 2022 • Sikha Pentyala, Davis Railsback, Ricardo Maia, Rafael Dowsley, David Melanson, Anderson Nascimento, Martine De Cock
We address the problem of learning a machine learning model from training data that originates at multiple data owners while providing formal privacy guarantees regarding the protection of each owner's data.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2021 • Samuel Adams, Chaitali Choudhary, Martine De Cock, Rafael Dowsley, David Melanson, Anderson C. A. Nascimento, Davis Railsback, Jianwei Shen
In this paper we propose three more efficient alternatives for secure training of decision tree based models on data with continuous features, namely: (1) secure discretization of the data, followed by secure training of a decision tree over the discretized data; (2) secure discretization of the data, followed by secure training of a random forest over the discretized data; and (3) secure training of extremely randomized trees (``extra-trees'') on the original data.