A system for privacy-preserving machine learning on personal data

This thesis describes the design and implementation of a system which allows users to generate machine learning models with their own data while preserving privacy. We approach the problem in two steps. First, we present a framework with which a user can collate personal data from a variety of sources in order to generate machine learning models for problems of the user's choosing. Second, we describe AnonML, a system which allows a group of users to share data privately in order to build models for classification. We analyze AnonML under differential privacy and test its performance on real-world datasets. In tandem, these two systems will help democratize machine learning, allowing people to make the most of their own data without relying on trusted third parties.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Cyphers, Bennett James

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kalyan Veeramachaneni.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119518

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/119518