Steps Adaptive Decay DPSGD: Enhancing Performance on Imbalanced Datasets with Differential Privacy with HAM10000

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author Huang, Xiaobo
Xie, Fang
author_facet Huang, Xiaobo
Xie, Fang
contents When applying machine learning to medical image classification, data leakage is a critical issue. Previous methods, such as adding noise to gradients for differential privacy, work well on large datasets like MNIST and CIFAR-100, but fail on small, imbalanced medical datasets like HAM10000. This is because the imbalanced distribution causes gradients from minority classes to be clipped and lose crucial information, while majority classes dominate. This leads the model to fall into suboptimal solutions early. To address this, we propose SAD-DPSGD, which uses a linear decaying mechanism for noise and clipping thresholds. By allocating more privacy budget and using higher clipping thresholds in the initial training phases, the model avoids suboptimal solutions and enhances performance. Experiments show that SAD-DPSGD outperforms Auto-DPSGD on HAM10000, improving accuracy by 2.15% under $ε= 3.0$ , $δ= 10^{-3}$.
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spellingShingle Steps Adaptive Decay DPSGD: Enhancing Performance on Imbalanced Datasets with Differential Privacy with HAM10000
Huang, Xiaobo
Xie, Fang
Machine Learning
When applying machine learning to medical image classification, data leakage is a critical issue. Previous methods, such as adding noise to gradients for differential privacy, work well on large datasets like MNIST and CIFAR-100, but fail on small, imbalanced medical datasets like HAM10000. This is because the imbalanced distribution causes gradients from minority classes to be clipped and lose crucial information, while majority classes dominate. This leads the model to fall into suboptimal solutions early. To address this, we propose SAD-DPSGD, which uses a linear decaying mechanism for noise and clipping thresholds. By allocating more privacy budget and using higher clipping thresholds in the initial training phases, the model avoids suboptimal solutions and enhances performance. Experiments show that SAD-DPSGD outperforms Auto-DPSGD on HAM10000, improving accuracy by 2.15% under $ε= 3.0$ , $δ= 10^{-3}$.
title Steps Adaptive Decay DPSGD: Enhancing Performance on Imbalanced Datasets with Differential Privacy with HAM10000
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06619