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User-Level Differential Privacy in Medical Machine Learning

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Abstract

We address the challenge of ensuring user-level DP when individuals contribute varying numbers of data records to a dataset. While group privacy can be used to aggregate record-level budgets, it can be overly pessimistic and lacks flexibility when users contribute varying numbers of data points. We propose a method for accounting for arbitrary numbers of records per user while maintaining a fixed per-user privacy guarantee by leveraging individual privacy assignment. Experimentally, our method yields excellent utility comparable to record-level DP while providing a more meaningful/interpretable protection.

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TPDP 2025

Workshop on Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy. Google, Mountain View, CA, USA, Jun 02-03, 2025.

Authors

J. Kaiser • J. Eigenmann • D. Rückert • G. Kaissis

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Research Area

 C1 | Medicine

BibTeXKey: KER+25

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