论文标题
关于机器学习中差异隐私的使用（和滥用）的批判性审查
A Critical Review on the Use (and Misuse) of Differential Privacy in Machine Learning
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论文摘要
我们审查在机器学习（ML）中使用差异隐私（DP）对隐私保护的使用。我们表明，在维护学习模型的准确性的驱动下，基于DP的ML实现非常松散，以至于它们不提供DP的事前隐私保证。取而代之的是，他们提供的基本上是与传统（经常受到批评的）统计披露控制方法相似的噪声。由于缺乏正式的隐私保证，因此提供的实际隐私水平必须经过实验评估，这很少进行。在这方面，我们提出的经验结果表明，ML中的标准反拟合技术可以比DP实现更好的实用性/隐私/效率权衡。
We review the use of differential privacy (DP) for privacy protection in machine learning (ML). We show that, driven by the aim of preserving the accuracy of the learned models, DP-based ML implementations are so loose that they do not offer the ex ante privacy guarantees of DP. Instead, what they deliver is basically noise addition similar to the traditional (and often criticized) statistical disclosure control approach. Due to the lack of formal privacy guarantees, the actual level of privacy offered must be experimentally assessed ex post, which is done very seldom. In this respect, we present empirical results showing that standard anti-overfitting techniques in ML can achieve a better utility/privacy/efficiency trade-off than DP.
