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# Bolton Module
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This module contains source code for the Bolton method. This method is a subset
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of methods used in the ensuring privacy in machine learning that leverages
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additional assumptions to provide a new way of approaching the privacy
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guarantees.
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## Bolton Description
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This method uses 4 key steps to achieve privacy guarantees:
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1. Adds noise to weights after training (output perturbation).
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2. Projects weights to R after each batch
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3. Limits learning rate
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4. Use a strongly convex loss function (see compile)
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For more details on the strong convexity requirements, see:
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Bolt-on Differential Privacy for Scalable Stochastic Gradient
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Descent-based Analytics by Xi Wu et al.
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### Why Bolton?
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The major difference for the Bolton method is that it injects noise post model
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convergence, rather than noising gradients or weights during training. This
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approach requires some additional constraints listed in the Description.
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Should the use-case and model satisfy these constraints, this is another
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approach that can be trained to maximize utility while maintaining the privacy.
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The paper describes in detail the advantages and disadvantages of this approach
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and its results compared to some other methods, namely noising at each iteration
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and no noising.
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## Tutorials
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This module has a tutorial that can be found in the root tutorials directory,
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under boton_tutorial.py.
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## Contribution
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This module was initially contributed by Georgian Partners with the hope of
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growing the tensorflow/privacy library. There are several rich use cases for
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delta-epsilon privacy in machine learning, some of which can be explored here:
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https://medium.com/apache-mxnet/epsilon-differential-privacy-for-machine-learning-using-mxnet-a4270fe3865e
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.04911.pdf
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## Contacts
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In addition to the maintainers of tensorflow/privacy listed in the root
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README.md, please feel free to contact members of Georgian Partners. In
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particular,
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* Georgian Partners (@georgianpartners)
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* Ji Chao Zhang (@Jichaogp)
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* Christopher Choquette (@cchoquette)
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## Copyright
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Copyright 2019 - Google LLC
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