Heterogeneous Gaussian Mechanism: Preserving Differential Privacy in Deep Learning with Provable Robustness

Heterogeneous Gaussian Mechanism: Preserving Differential Privacy in Deep Learning with Provable Robustness

NhatHai Phan, Minh N. Vu, Yang Liu, Ruoming Jin, Dejing Dou, Xintao Wu, My T. Thai

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 4753-4759. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/660

In this paper, we propose a novel Heterogeneous Gaussian Mechanism (HGM) to preserve differential privacy in deep neural networks, with provable robustness against adversarial examples. We first relax the constraint of the privacy budget in the traditional Gaussian Mechanism from (0, 1] to (0, infty), with a new bound of the noise scale to preserve differential privacy. The noise in our mechanism can be arbitrarily redistributed, offering a distinctive ability to address the trade-off between model utility and privacy loss. To derive provable robustness, our HGM is applied to inject Gaussian noise into the first hidden layer. Then, a tighter robustness bound is proposed. Theoretical analysis and thorough evaluations show that our mechanism notably improves the robustness of differentially private deep neural networks, compared with baseline approaches, under a variety of model attacks.
Keywords:
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Security and Privacy
Machine Learning: Deep Learning