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.
no code implementations • 20 Mar 2021 • Rafael Dowsley, Caleb Horst, Anderson C. A. Nascimento
We propose protocols for obliviously evaluating finite-state machines, i. e., the evaluation is shared between the provider of the finite-state machine and the provider of the input string in such a manner that neither party learns the other's input, and the states being visited are hidden from both.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2021 • Xiling Li, Rafael Dowsley, Martine De Cock
In this work, we propose the first MPC based protocol for private feature selection based on the filter method, which is independent of model training, and can be used in combination with any MPC protocol to rank features.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2021 • Sikha Pentyala, Rafael Dowsley, Martine De Cock
We propose a privacy-preserving implementation of single-frame method based video classification with convolutional neural networks that allows a party to infer a label from a video without necessitating the video owner to disclose their video to other entities in an unencrypted manner.
no code implementations • 18 Jan 2021 • Amanda Resende, Davis Railsback, Rafael Dowsley, Anderson C. A. Nascimento, Diego F. Aranha
We propose a privacy-preserving Naive Bayes classifier and apply it to the problem of private text classification.
no code implementations • 1 Jul 2020 • Kyle Bittner, Martine De Cock, Rafael Dowsley
We evaluate the efficiency-security-accuracy trade-off of the proposed solution in a use case for privacy-preserving emotion detection from speech with a convolutional neural network.
1 code implementation • 13 Feb 2020 • Martine De Cock, Rafael Dowsley, Anderson C. A. Nascimento, Davis Railsback, Jianwei Shen, Ariel Todoki
In this paper, we present a secure logistic regression training protocol and its implementation, with a new subprotocol to securely compute the activation function.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2019 • Devin Reich, Ariel Todoki, Rafael Dowsley, Martine De Cock, Anderson Nascimento
Classification of personal text messages has many useful applications in surveillance, e-commerce, and mental health care, to name a few.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2019 • Anisha Agarwal, Rafael Dowsley, Nicholas D. McKinney, Dongrui Wu, Chin-Teng Lin, Martine De Cock, Anderson C. A. Nascimento
Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing research and industry.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2019 • Devin Reich, Ariel Todoki, Rafael Dowsley, Martine De Cock, Anderson C. A. Nascimento
Classification of personal text messages has many useful applications in surveillance, e-commerce, and mental health care, to name a few.
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2018 • Sisi Wang, Wing-Sea Poon, Golnoosh Farnadi, Caleb Horst, Kebra Thompson, Michael Nickels, Rafael Dowsley, Anderson C. A. Nascimento, Martine De Cock
User profiling from user generated content (UGC) is a common practice that supports the business models of many social media companies.