Abstract
We propose a novel multi-party computation protocol for evaluating continuous real-valued functions with high numerical precision. Our method is based on approximations with Fourier series and uses at most two rounds of communication during the online phase. For the offline phase, we propose a trusted-dealer and honest-but-curious aided solution, respectively. We apply our algorithm to train a logistic regression classifier via a variant of Newton’s method (known as IRLS) to compute unbalanced classification problems that detect rare events and cannot be solved using previously proposed privacy-preserving optimization algorithms (e.g., based on piecewise-linear approximations of the sigmoid function). Our protocol is efficient as it can be implemented using standard quadruple-precision floating point arithmetic. We report multiple experiments and provide a demo application that implements our algorithm for training a logistic regression model.
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We thank Hunter Brooks, Daniel Kressner and Marco Picasso for useful conversations on data-independent iterative optimization algorithms. We are grateful to Jordan Brandt, Alexandre Duc and Morten Dahl for various useful discussions regarding multi-party computations and privacy-preserving machine learning.
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A Timings for \(n=3\) players
We present in this section a table (Table 1) summarizing the different measures we obtained during our experiments for \(n = 3\) players. For this we considered datasets containing from 10000 to 1500000 points having 8, 12 or 20 features each.
Figure 1 shows the evolution of the cost function during the logistic regression as a function of the number of iterations, on a test dataset of 150000 samples, with 8 features and an acceptance rate of 0.5%. In yellow is the standard gradient descent with optimal learning rate, in red, the gradient descent using the piecewise linear approximation of the sigmoid function (as in [26]), and in green, our MPC model (based on the IRLS method). The MPC IRLS method (as well as the plaintext IRLS) method converge in less than 8 iterations, against 500 iterations for the standard gradient method. As expected, the approx method does not reach the minimal cost.
Evolution of the cost function depending on the method
Evolution of the F-score depending on the method
Figure 2 shows the evolution of the F-score during the same logistic regression as a function of the number of iterations. The standard gradient descent and our MPC produce the same model, with a limit F-score of 0.64. However, no positive samples are detected by the piecewise linear approximation, leading to a null F-score. However, in the three cases, the accuracy (purple) is nearly 100% from the first iteration.
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Boura, C., Chillotti, I., Gama, N., Jetchev, D., Peceny, S., Petric, A. (2018). High-Precision Privacy-Preserving Real-Valued Function Evaluation. In: Meiklejohn, S., Sako, K. (eds) Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10957. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58387-6_10
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