Privacy Auditing with One (1) Training Run
Thomas Steinke, Milad Nasr, Matthew Jagielski
2023Year
178Citations
53Top-tier citations
Abstract
We propose a scheme for auditing differentially private machine learning systems with a single training run. This exploits the parallelism of being able to add or remove multiple training examples independently. We analyze this using the connection between differential privacy and statistical generalization, which avoids the cost of group privacy. Our auditing scheme requires minimal assumptions about the algorithm and can be applied in the black-box or white-box setting.
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