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Poster
Accuracy, Interpretability, and Differential Privacy via Explainable Boosting
Harsha Nori · Rich Caruana · Zhiqi Bu · Judy Hanwen Shen · Janardhan Kulkarni

Thu Jul 22 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PDT) @
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We show that adding differential privacy to Explainable Boosting Machines (EBMs), a recent method for training interpretable ML models, yields state-of-the-art accuracy while protecting privacy. Our experiments on multiple classification and regression datasets show that DP-EBM models suffer surprisingly little accuracy loss even with strong differential privacy guarantees. In addition to high accuracy, two other benefits of applying DP to EBMs are: a) trained models provide exact global and local interpretability, which is often important in settings where differential privacy is needed; and b) the models can be edited after training without loss of privacy to correct errors which DP noise may have introduced.

Keywords: Privacy, Anonymity, and Security · Social Aspects of Machine Learning

Author Information

Harsha Nori (Microsoft)
Rich Caruana (Microsoft)
Zhiqi Bu (University of Pennsylvania)
Judy Hanwen Shen (Stanford)
Janardhan Kulkarni (Microsoft Research)

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