mannequin inversion assault by instance

How non-public are particular person knowledge within the context of machine studying fashions? The information used to coach the mannequin, say. There areforms of fashions the place the reply is straightforward. Take k-nearest-neighbors, for instance. There will not be even a mannequin with out thefull dataset. Or assist vector machines. There isn’t any mannequin with out the assist vectors. However neural networks? They’re simplysome composition of capabilities, – no knowledge included.

The identical is true for knowledge fed to a deployed deep-learning mannequin. It’s fairly unlikely one might invert the ultimate softmaxoutput from an enormous ResNet and get again the uncooked enter knowledge.

In principle, then, “hacking” a normal neural internet to spy on enter knowledge sounds illusory. In follow, nonetheless, there may be all the timesome real-world context. The context could also be different datasets, publicly obtainable, that may be linked to the “non-public” knowledge inquery. This can be a fashionable showcase utilized in advocating for differential privateness(Dwork et al. 2006): Take an “anonymized” dataset,dig up complementary info from public sources, and de-anonymize information advert libitum. Some context in that sense willusually be utilized in “black-box” assaults, ones that presuppose no insider details about the mannequin to be hacked.

However context may also be structural, similar to within the situation demonstrated on this publish. For instance, assume a distributedmannequin, the place units of layers run on totally different units – embedded units or cell phones, for instance. (A situation like thatis typically seen as “white-box”(Wu et al. 2016), however in widespread understanding, white-box assaults in all probability presuppose some extrainsider information, similar to entry to mannequin structure and even, weights. I’d subsequently choose calling this white-ish atmost.) — Now assume that on this context, it’s potential to intercept, and work together with, a system that executes the deeperlayers of the mannequin. Based mostly on that system’s intermediate-level output, it’s potential to carry out mannequin inversion(Fredrikson et al. 2014),that’s, to reconstruct the enter knowledge fed into the system.

On this publish, we’ll exhibit such a mannequin inversion assault, principally porting the strategy given in anotebookdiscovered within the PySyft repository. We then experiment with totally different ranges of(epsilon)-privacy, exploring affect on reconstruction success. This second half will make use of TensorFlow Privateness,launched in a previous blog post.

Half 1: Mannequin inversion in motion

Instance dataset: All of the world’s letters

The general means of mannequin inversion used right here is the next. With no, or scarcely any, insider information a few mannequin,– however given alternatives to repeatedly question it –, I wish to discover ways to reconstruct unknown inputs based mostly on simply mannequinoutputs . Independently of authentic mannequin coaching, this, too, is a coaching course of; nonetheless, usually it won’t containthe unique knowledge, as these received’t be publicly obtainable. Nonetheless, for finest success, the attacker mannequin is educated with knowledge ascomparable as potential to the unique coaching knowledge assumed. Considering of photos, for instance, and presupposing the favored viewof successive layers representing successively coarse-grained options, we would like that the surrogate knowledge to share as manyillustration areas with the actual knowledge as potential – as much as the very highest layers earlier than remaining classification, ideally.

If we needed to make use of classical MNIST for instance, one factor we might do is to solely use among the digits for coaching the“actual” mannequin; and the remainder, for coaching the adversary. Let’s strive one thing totally different although, one thing that may make theendeavor more durable in addition to simpler on the similar time. More durable, as a result of the dataset options exemplars extra complicated than MNISTdigits; simpler due to the identical motive: Extra might presumably be discovered, by the adversary, from a fancy activity.

Initially designed to develop a machine mannequin of idea studying and generalization (Lake, Salakhutdinov, and Tenenbaum 2015), theOmniGlot dataset incorporates characters from fifty alphabets, break up into twodisjoint teams of thirty and twenty alphabets every. We’ll use the group of twenty to coach our goal mannequin. Here’s apattern:

Determine 1: Pattern from the twenty-alphabet set used to coach the goal mannequin (initially: ‘analysis set’)

The group of thirty we don’t use; as an alternative, we’ll make use of two small five-alphabet collections to coach the adversary and to checkreconstruction, respectively. (These small subsets of the unique “massive” thirty-alphabet set are once more disjoint.)

Right here first is a pattern from the set used to coach the adversary.

Determine 2: Pattern from the five-alphabet set used to coach the adversary (initially: ‘background small 1’)

The opposite small subset will likely be used to check the adversary’s spying capabilities after coaching. Let’s peek at this one, too:

Determine 3: Pattern from the five-alphabet set used to check the adversary after coaching(initially: ‘background small 2’)

Conveniently, we will use tfds, the R wrapper to TensorFlow Datasets, to load these subsets:

Now first, we prepare the goal mannequin.

Practice goal mannequin

The dataset initially has 4 columns: the picture, of measurement 105 x 105; an alphabet id and a within-dataset character id; and alabel. For our use case, we’re not likely within the activity the goal mannequin was/is used for; we simply wish to get on theknowledge. Mainly, no matter activity we select, it isn’t far more than a dummy activity. So, let’s simply say we prepare the goal toclassify characters by alphabet.

We thus throw out all unneeded options, preserving simply the alphabet id and the picture itself:

# normalize and work with a single channel (photos are black-and-white anyway)
preprocess_image <- perform(picture) {
  picture %>%
    tf$solid(dtype = tf$float32) %>%
    tf$truediv(y = 255) %>%
    tf$picture$rgb_to_grayscale()
}

# use the primary 11000 photos for coaching
train_ds <- omni_train %>% 
  dataset_take(11000) %>%
  dataset_map(perform(document) {
    document$picture <- preprocess_image(document$picture)
    list(document$picture, document$alphabet)}) %>%
  dataset_shuffle(1000) %>% 
  dataset_batch(32)

# use the remaining 2180 information for validation
val_ds <- omni_train %>% 
  dataset_skip(11000) %>%
  dataset_map(perform(document) {
    document$picture <- preprocess_image(document$picture)
    list(document$picture, document$alphabet)}) %>%
  dataset_batch(32)

The mannequin consists of two elements. The primary is imagined to run in a distributed trend; for instance, on cellular units (stageone). These units then ship mannequin outputs to a central server, the place remaining outcomes are computed (stage two). Certain, you’llbe pondering, it is a handy setup for our situation: If we intercept stage one outcomes, we – most likely – acquireentry to richer info than what’s contained in a mannequin’s remaining output layer. — That’s right, however the situation ismuch less contrived than one may assume. Identical to federated studying (McMahan et al. 2016), it fulfills necessary desiderata: Precisecoaching knowledge by no means leaves the units, thus staying (in principle!) non-public; on the similar time, ingoing visitors to the server isconsiderably decreased.

In our instance setup, the on-device mannequin is a convnet, whereas the server mannequin is an easy feedforward community.

We hyperlink each collectively as a TargetModel that when referred to as usually, will run each steps in succession. Nevertheless, we’ll give you the optionto name target_model$mobile_step() individually, thereby intercepting intermediate outcomes.

on_device_model <- keras_model_sequential() %>%
  layer_conv_2d(filters = 32, kernel_size = c(7, 7),
                input_shape = c(105, 105, 1), activation = "relu") %>%
  layer_batch_normalization() %>%
  layer_max_pooling_2d(pool_size = c(3, 3), strides = 3) %>%
  layer_dropout(0.2) %>%
  layer_conv_2d(filters = 32, kernel_size = c(7, 7), activation = "relu") %>%
  layer_batch_normalization() %>%
  layer_max_pooling_2d(pool_size = c(3, 3), strides = 2) %>%
  layer_dropout(0.2) %>%
  layer_conv_2d(filters = 32, kernel_size = c(5, 5), activation = "relu") %>%
  layer_batch_normalization() %>%
  layer_max_pooling_2d(pool_size = c(2, 2), strides = 2) %>%
  layer_dropout(0.2) %>%
  layer_conv_2d(filters = 32, kernel_size = c(3, 3), activation = "relu") %>%
  layer_batch_normalization() %>%
  layer_max_pooling_2d(pool_size = c(2, 2), strides = 2) %>%
  layer_dropout(0.2) 

server_model <- keras_model_sequential() %>%
  layer_dense(items = 256, activation = "relu") %>%
  layer_flatten() %>%
  layer_dropout(0.2) %>% 
  # we've got simply 20 totally different ids, however they aren't in lexicographic order
  layer_dense(items = 50, activation = "softmax")

target_model <- perform() {
  keras_model_custom(identify = "TargetModel", perform(self) {
    
    self$on_device_model <-on_device_model
    self$server_model <- server_model
    self$mobile_step <- perform(inputs) 
      self$on_device_model(inputs)
    self$server_step <- perform(inputs)
      self$server_model(inputs)

    perform(inputs, masks = NULL) {
      inputs %>% 
        self$mobile_step() %>%
        self$server_step()
    }
  })
  
}

mannequin <- target_model()

The general mannequin is a Keras customized mannequin, so we prepare it TensorFlow 2.x –style. After ten epochs, coaching and validation accuracy are at ~0.84and ~0.73, respectively – not unhealthy in any respect for a 20-class discrimination activity.

loss <- loss_sparse_categorical_crossentropy
optimizer <- optimizer_adam()

train_loss <- tf$keras$metrics$Imply(identify='train_loss')
train_accuracy <-  tf$keras$metrics$SparseCategoricalAccuracy(identify='train_accuracy')

val_loss <- tf$keras$metrics$Imply(identify='val_loss')
val_accuracy <-  tf$keras$metrics$SparseCategoricalAccuracy(identify='val_accuracy')

train_step <- perform(photos, labels) {
  with (tf$GradientTape() %as% tape, {
    predictions <- mannequin(photos)
    l <- loss(labels, predictions)
  })
  gradients <- tape$gradient(l, mannequin$trainable_variables)
  optimizer$apply_gradients(purrr::transpose(list(
    gradients, mannequin$trainable_variables
  )))
  train_loss(l)
  train_accuracy(labels, predictions)
}

val_step <- perform(photos, labels) {
  predictions <- mannequin(photos)
  l <- loss(labels, predictions)
  val_loss(l)
  val_accuracy(labels, predictions)
}


training_loop <- tf_function(autograph(perform(train_ds, val_ds) {
  for (b1 in train_ds) {
    train_step(b1[[1]], b1[[2]])
  }
  for (b2 in val_ds) {
    val_step(b2[[1]], b2[[2]])
  }
  
  tf$print("Practice accuracy", train_accuracy$outcome(),
           "    Validation Accuracy", val_accuracy$outcome())
  
  train_loss$reset_states()
  train_accuracy$reset_states()
  val_loss$reset_states()
  val_accuracy$reset_states()
}))


for (epoch in 1:10) {
  cat("Epoch: ", epoch, " -----------n")
  training_loop(train_ds, val_ds)  
}

Epoch:  1  -----------
Practice accuracy 0.195090905     Validation Accuracy 0.376605511
Epoch:  2  -----------
Practice accuracy 0.472272724     Validation Accuracy 0.5243119
...
...
Epoch:  9  -----------
Practice accuracy 0.821454525     Validation Accuracy 0.720183492
Epoch:  10  -----------
Practice accuracy 0.840454519     Validation Accuracy 0.726605475

Now, we prepare the adversary.

Practice adversary

The adversary’s normal technique will likely be:

• Feed its small, surrogate dataset to the on-device mannequin. The output acquired could be thought to be a (extremely)compressed model of the unique photos.

• Pass that “compressed” model as enter to its personal mannequin, which tries to reconstruct the unique photos from thesparse code.

• Examine authentic photos (these from the surrogate dataset) to the reconstruction pixel-wise. The objective is to attenuatethe imply (squared, say) error.

Doesn’t this sound rather a lot just like the decoding aspect of an autoencoder? No marvel the attacker mannequin is a deconvolutional community.Its enter – equivalently, the on-device mannequin’s output – is of measurement batch_size x 1 x 1 x 32. That’s, the knowledge isencoded in 32 channels, however the spatial decision is 1. Identical to in an autoencoder working on photos, we have toupsample till we arrive on the authentic decision of 105 x 105.

That is precisely what’s taking place within the attacker mannequin:

attack_model <- perform() {
  
  keras_model_custom(identify = "AttackModel", perform(self) {
    
    self$conv1 <-layer_conv_2d_transpose(filters = 32, kernel_size = 9,
                                         padding = "legitimate",
                                         strides = 1, activation = "relu")
    self$conv2 <- layer_conv_2d_transpose(filters = 32, kernel_size = 7,
                                          padding = "legitimate",
                                          strides = 2, activation = "relu") 
    self$conv3 <- layer_conv_2d_transpose(filters = 1, kernel_size = 7,
                                          padding = "legitimate",
                                          strides = 2, activation = "relu")  
    self$conv4 <- layer_conv_2d_transpose(filters = 1, kernel_size = 5,
                                          padding = "legitimate",
                                          strides = 2, activation = "relu")
    
    perform(inputs, masks = NULL) {
      inputs %>% 
        # bs * 9 * 9 * 32
        # output = strides * (enter - 1) + kernel_size - 2 * padding
        self$conv1() %>%
        # bs * 23 * 23 * 32
        self$conv2() %>%
        # bs * 51 * 51 * 1
        self$conv3() %>%
        # bs * 105 * 105 * 1
        self$conv4()
    }
  })
  
}

attacker = attack_model()

To coach the adversary, we use one of many small (five-alphabet) subsets. To reiterate what was mentioned above, there isn’t any overlapwith the information used to coach the goal mannequin.

attacker_ds <- omni_spy %>% 
dataset_map(perform(document) {
    document$picture <- preprocess_image(document$picture)
    list(document$picture, document$alphabet)}) %>%
  dataset_batch(32)

Right here, then, is the attacker coaching loop, striving to refine the decoding course of over 100 – brief – epochs:

attacker_criterion <- loss_mean_squared_error
attacker_optimizer <- optimizer_adam()
attacker_loss <- tf$keras$metrics$Imply(identify='attacker_loss')
attacker_mse <-  tf$keras$metrics$MeanSquaredError(identify='attacker_mse')

attacker_step <- perform(photos) {
  
  attack_input <- mannequin$mobile_step(photos)
  
  with (tf$GradientTape() %as% tape, {
    generated <- attacker(attack_input)
    l <- attacker_criterion(photos, generated)
  })
  gradients <- tape$gradient(l, attacker$trainable_variables)
  attacker_optimizer$apply_gradients(purrr::transpose(list(
    gradients, attacker$trainable_variables
  )))
  attacker_loss(l)
  attacker_mse(photos, generated)
}


attacker_training_loop <- tf_function(autograph(perform(attacker_ds) {
  for (b in attacker_ds) {
    attacker_step(b[[1]])
  }
  
  tf$print("mse: ", attacker_mse$outcome())
  
  attacker_loss$reset_states()
  attacker_mse$reset_states()
}))

for (epoch in 1:100) {
  cat("Epoch: ", epoch, " -----------n")
  attacker_training_loop(attacker_ds)  
}

Epoch:  1  -----------
  mse:  0.530902684
Epoch:  2  -----------
  mse:  0.201351956
...
...
Epoch:  99  -----------
  mse:  0.0413453057
Epoch:  100  -----------
  mse:  0.0413028933

The query now’s, – does it work? Has the attacker actually discovered to deduce precise knowledge from (stage one) mannequin output?

Take a look at adversary

To check the adversary, we use the third dataset we downloaded, containing photos from 5 yet-unseen alphabets. For show,we choose simply the primary sixteen information – a very arbitrary choice, after all.

test_ds <- omni_test %>% 
  dataset_map(perform(document) {
    document$picture <- preprocess_image(document$picture)
    list(document$picture, document$alphabet)}) %>%
  dataset_take(16) %>%
  dataset_batch(16)

batch <- as_iterator(test_ds) %>% iterator_get_next()
photos <- batch[[1]]

attack_input <- mannequin$mobile_step(photos)
generated <- attacker(attack_input) %>% as.array()

generated[generated > 1] <- 1
generated <- generated[ , , , 1]
generated %>%
  purrr::array_tree(1) %>%
  purrr::map(as.raster) %>%
  purrr::iwalk(~{plot(.x)})

Identical to throughout the coaching course of, the adversary queries the goal mannequin (stage one), obtains the compressedillustration, and makes an attempt to reconstruct the unique picture. (After all, in the actual world, the setup could be totally different inthat the attacker would not have the ability to merely examine the pictures, as is the case right here. There would thus must be a wayto intercept, and make sense of, community visitors.)

attack_input <- mannequin$mobile_step(photos)
generated <- attacker(attack_input) %>% as.array()

generated[generated > 1] <- 1
generated <- generated[ , , , 1]
generated %>%
  purrr::array_tree(1) %>%
  purrr::map(as.raster) %>%
  purrr::iwalk(~{plot(.x)})

To permit for simpler comparability (and improve suspense …!), right here once more are the precise photos, which we displayed already whenintroducing the dataset:

Determine 4: First photos from the check set, the best way they actually look.

And right here is the reconstruction:

Determine 5: First photos from the check set, as reconstructed by the adversary.

After all, it’s laborious to say how revealing these “guesses” are. There positively appears to be a connection to charactercomplexity; general, it looks as if the Greek and Roman letters, that are the least complicated, are additionally those most simplyreconstructed. Nonetheless, in the long run, how a lot privateness is misplaced will very a lot depend upon contextual components.

Initially, do the exemplars within the dataset signify people or lessons of people? If – as in actuality– the character X represents a category, it may not be so grave if we had been capable of reconstruct “some X” right here: There are numerousXs within the dataset, all fairly comparable to one another; we’re unlikely to precisely to have reconstructed one particular, particular personX. If, nonetheless, this was a dataset of particular person individuals, with all Xs being pictures of Alex, then in reconstructing anX we’ve got successfully reconstructed Alex.

Second, in much less apparent situations, evaluating the diploma of privateness breach will possible surpass computation of quantitativemetrics, and contain the judgment of area specialists.

Talking of quantitative metrics although – our instance looks as if an ideal use case to experiment with differentialprivateness. Differential privateness is measured by (epsilon) (decrease is healthier), the principle concept being that solutions to queries to asystem ought to rely as little as potential on the presence or absence of a single (any single) datapoint.

So, we’ll repeat the above experiment, utilizing TensorFlow Privateness (TFP) so as to add noise, in addition to clip gradients, throughoutoptimization of the goal mannequin. We’ll strive three totally different circumstances, leading to three totally different values for (epsilon)s,and for every situation, examine the pictures reconstructed by the adversary.

Half 2: Differential privateness to the rescue

Sadly, the setup for this a part of the experiment requires a bit of workaround. Making use of the flexibleness affordedby TensorFlow 2.x, our goal mannequin has been a customized mannequin, becoming a member of two distinct levels (“cellular” and “server”) that could possibly bereferred to as independently.

TFP, nonetheless, does nonetheless not work with TensorFlow 2.x, that means we’ve got to make use of old-style, non-eager mannequin definitions andcoaching. Fortunately, the workaround will likely be simple.

First, load (and presumably, set up) libraries, taking care to disable TensorFlow V2 habits.

The coaching set is loaded, preprocessed and batched (almost) as earlier than.

omni_train <- tfds$load("omniglot", break up = "check")

batch_size <- 32

train_ds <- omni_train %>%
  dataset_take(11000) %>%
  dataset_map(perform(document) {
    document$picture <- preprocess_image(document$picture)
    list(document$picture, document$alphabet)}) %>%
  dataset_shuffle(1000) %>%
  # want dataset_repeat() when not keen
  dataset_repeat() %>%
  dataset_batch(batch_size)

Practice goal mannequin – with TensorFlow Privateness

To coach the goal, we put the layers from each levels – “cellular” and “server” – into one sequential mannequin. Word how wetake away the dropout. It is because noise will likely be added throughout optimization anyway.

complete_model <- keras_model_sequential() %>%
  layer_conv_2d(filters = 32, kernel_size = c(7, 7),
                input_shape = c(105, 105, 1),
                activation = "relu") %>%
  layer_batch_normalization() %>%
  layer_max_pooling_2d(pool_size = c(3, 3), strides = 3) %>%
  #layer_dropout(0.2) %>%
  layer_conv_2d(filters = 32, kernel_size = c(7, 7), activation = "relu") %>%
  layer_batch_normalization() %>%
  layer_max_pooling_2d(pool_size = c(3, 3), strides = 2) %>%
  #layer_dropout(0.2) %>%
  layer_conv_2d(filters = 32, kernel_size = c(5, 5), activation = "relu") %>%
  layer_batch_normalization() %>%
  layer_max_pooling_2d(pool_size = c(2, 2), strides = 2) %>%
  #layer_dropout(0.2) %>%
  layer_conv_2d(filters = 32, kernel_size = c(3, 3), activation = "relu") %>%
  layer_batch_normalization() %>%
  layer_max_pooling_2d(pool_size = c(2, 2), strides = 2, identify = "mobile_output") %>%
  #layer_dropout(0.2) %>%
  layer_dense(items = 256, activation = "relu") %>%
  layer_flatten() %>%
  #layer_dropout(0.2) %>%
  layer_dense(items = 50, activation = "softmax")

Utilizing TFP primarily means utilizing a TFP optimizer, one which clips gradients in accordance with some outlined magnitude and provides noise ofoutlined measurement. noise_multiplier is the parameter we’re going to fluctuate to reach at totally different (epsilon)s:

l2_norm_clip <- 1

# ratio of the usual deviation to the clipping norm
# we run coaching for every of the three values
noise_multiplier <- 0.7
noise_multiplier <- 0.5
noise_multiplier <- 0.3

# similar as batch measurement
num_microbatches <- k_cast(batch_size, "int32")
learning_rate <- 0.005

optimizer <- tfp$DPAdamGaussianOptimizer(
  l2_norm_clip = l2_norm_clip,
  noise_multiplier = noise_multiplier,
  num_microbatches = num_microbatches,
  learning_rate = learning_rate
)

In coaching the mannequin, the second necessary change for TFP we have to make is to have loss and gradients computed on theparticular person stage.

# want so as to add noise to each particular person contribution
loss <- tf$keras$losses$SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(discount =   tf$keras$losses$Discount$NONE)

complete_model %>% compile(loss = loss, optimizer = optimizer, metrics = "sparse_categorical_accuracy")

num_epochs <- 20

n_train <- 13180

historical past <- complete_model %>% match(
  train_ds,
  # want steps_per_epoch when not in keen mode
  steps_per_epoch = n_train/batch_size,
  epochs = num_epochs)

To check three totally different (epsilon)s, we run this thrice, every time with a special noise_multiplier. Every time we arrive ata special remaining accuracy.

Here’s a synopsis, the place (epsilon) was computed like so:

compute_priv <- tfp$privateness$evaluation$compute_dp_sgd_privacy

compute_priv$compute_dp_sgd_privacy(
  # variety of information in coaching set
  n_train,
  batch_size,
  # noise_multiplier
  0.7, # or 0.5, or 0.3
  # variety of epochs
  20,
  # delta - mustn't exceed 1/variety of examples in coaching set
  1e-5)

Now, because the adversary received’t name the entire mannequin, we have to “minimize off” the second-stage layers. This leaves us with a mannequinthat executes stage-one logic solely. We save its weights, so we will later name it from the adversary:

intercepted <- keras_model(
  complete_model$enter,
  complete_model$get_layer("mobile_output")$output
)

intercepted %>% save_model_hdf5("./intercepted.hdf5")

Practice adversary (in opposition to differentially non-public goal)

In coaching the adversary, we will preserve many of the authentic code – that means, we’re again to TF-2 type. Even the definition ofthe goal mannequin is similar as earlier than:

on_device_model <- keras_model_sequential() %>%
  [...]

server_model <- keras_model_sequential() %>%
  [...]

target_model <- function() {
  keras_model_custom(name = "TargetModel", function(self) {
    
    self$on_device_model <-on_device_model
    self$server_model <- server_model
    self$mobile_step <- function(inputs) 
      self$on_device_model(inputs)
    self$server_step <- function(inputs)
      self$server_model(inputs)
    
    function(inputs, mask = NULL) {
      inputs %>% 
        self$mobile_step() %>%
        self$server_step()
    }
  })
}

intercepted <- target_model()

But now, we load the trained target’s weights into the freshly defined model’s “mobile stage”:

intercepted$on_device_model$load_weights("intercepted.hdf5")

And now, we’re back to the old training routine. Testing setup is the same as before, as well.

So how well does the adversary perform with differential privacy added to the picture?

Test adversary (against differentially private target)

Here, ordered by decreasing (epsilon), are the reconstructions. Again, we refrain from judging the results, for the samereasons as before: In real-world applications, whether privacy is preserved “well enough” will depend on the context.

Here, first, are reconstructions from the run where the least noise was added.

Figure 6: Reconstruction attempts from a setup where the target model was trained with an epsilon of 84.7.

On to the next level of privacy protection:

Figure 7: Reconstruction attempts from a setup where the target model was trained with an epsilon of 12.5.

And the highest-(epsilon) one:

Figure 8: Reconstruction attempts from a setup where the target model was trained with an epsilon of 4.0.

Conclusion

Throughout this post, we’ve refrained from “over-commenting” on results, and focused on the why-and-how instead. This isbecause in an artificial setup, chosen to facilitate exposition of concepts and methods, there really is no objective frame ofreference. What is a good reconstruction? What is a good (epsilon)? What constitutes a data breach? No-one knows.

In the real world, there is a context to everything – there are people involved, the people whose data we’re talking about.There are organizations, regulations, laws. There are abstract principles, and there are implementations; differentimplementations of the same “idea” can differ.

As in machine learning overall, research papers on privacy-, ethics- or otherwise society-related topics are full of LaTeXformulae. Amid the math, let’s not forget the people.

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