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Privacy-preserving and bandwidth-efficient federated learning: an application to in-hospital mortality prediction

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Kerkouche, Raouf, Ács, Gergely, Castelluccia, Claude, Genevès, Pierre·2021·Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning

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Machine Learning, and in particular Federated Machine Learning, opens new perspectives in terms of medical research and patient care. Although Federated Machine Learning improves over centralized Machine Learning in terms of privacy, it does not provide provable privacy guarantees. Furthermore, Federated Machine Learning is quite expensive in term of bandwidth consumption as it requires participant nodes to regularly exchange large updates. This paper proposes a bandwidth-efficient privacy-preserving Federated Learning that provides theoretical privacy guarantees based on Differential Privacy. We experimentally evaluate our proposal for in-hospital mortality prediction using a real dataset, containing Electronic Health Records of about one million patients. Our results suggest that strong and provable patient-level privacy can be enforced at the expense of only a moderate loss of prediction accuracy.

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Authors
Kerkouche, R., Ács, G., Castelluccia, C., & Genevès, P.
Affiliations
  • Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (FR)
  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
Venue
Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning
Publisher
ACM
Published
2021-04-08
Pages
25-35
OpenAlex
W3135725834
Cited by
65
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 2
FWCI
4.74
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
ANR (ANR-16-CE25-0010)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Keywords
federated learning, differential privacy, privacy-preserving machine learning, spectral efficiency, in-hospital mortality prediction, electronic health records

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