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Privacy-Preserving Knowledge Transfer with Bootstrap Aggregation of Teacher Ensembles...

Publication Type
Conference Paper
Journal Name
Heterogeneous Data Management, Polystores, and Analytics for Healthcare
Book Title
Heterogeneous Data Management, Polystores, and Analytics for Healthcare
Publication Date
Page Numbers
87 to 99
Volume
12633
Issue
1
Publisher Location
Cham, Switzerland
Conference Name
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)
Conference Location
Tokyo, Japan
Conference Sponsor
National Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Conference Date
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There is a need to transfer knowledge among institutions and organizations to save effort in annotation and labeling or in enhancing task performance. However, knowledge transfer is difficult because of restrictions that are in place to ensure data security and privacy. Institutions are not allowed to exchange data or perform any activity that may expose personal information. With the leverage of a differential privacy algorithm in a high-performance computing environment, we propose a new training protocol, Bootstrap Aggregation of Teacher Ensembles (BATE), which is applicable to various types of machine learning models. The BATE algorithm is based on and provides enhancements to the PATE algorithm, maintaining competitive task performance scores on complex datasets with underrepresented class labels.

We conducted a proof-of-the-concept study of the information extraction from cancer pathology report data from four cancer registries and performed comparisons between four scenarios: no collaboration, no privacy-preserving collaboration, the PATE algorithm, and the proposed BATE algorithm. The results showed that the BATE algorithm maintained competitive macro-averaged F1 scores, demonstrating that the suggested algorithm is an effective yet privacy-preserving method for machine learning and deep learning solutions.