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Benchmarking Differential Privacy and Federated Learning for BERT Models - 2021

Benchmarking Differential Privacy And Federated Learning For Bert Models

Research Area:  Machine Learning

Abstract:

Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques can be applied to help with the diagnosis of medical conditions such as depression, using a collection of a person-s utterances. Depression is a serious medical illness that can have adverse effects on how one feels, thinks, and acts, which can lead to emotional and physical problems. Due to the sensitive nature of such data, privacy measures need to be taken for handling and training models with such data. In this work, we study the effects that the application of Differential Privacy (DP) has, in both a centralized and a Federated Learning (FL) setup, on training contextualized language models (BERT, ALBERT, RoBERTa and DistilBERT). We offer insights on how to privately train NLP models and what architectures and setups provide more desirable privacy utility trade-offs. We envisage this work to be used in future healthcare and mental health studies to keep medical history private. Therefore, we provide an open-source implementation of this work.

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Author(s) Name:  Priyam Basu, Tiasa Singha Roy, Rakshit Naidu, Zumrut Muftuoglu, Sahib Singh, Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah

Journal name:  Computer Science

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Publisher name:  arXiv:2106.13973

DOI:  10.48550/arXiv.2106.13973

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