Journal on Communications ›› 2016, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (9): 175-182.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2016169

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DiffPRFs:random forest under differential privacy

Hai-rong MU,Li-ping DING,Yu-ning SONG,Guo-qing LU   

  1. National Engineering Research Center of Fundamental Software,Institute of Software,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
  • Online:2016-09-25 Published:2016-09-28
  • Supported by:
    The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)

Abstract:

A differential privacy algorithm DiffPRFs based on random forests was proposed.Exponential mechanism was used to select split point and split attribute in each decision tree building process,and noise was added according to Laplace mechanism.Differential privacy protection requirement was satisfied through overall process.Compared to existed algorithms,the proposed method does not require pre-discretization of continuous attributes which significantly reduces the performance cost of preprocessing in large multi-dimensional dataset.Classification is achieved conveniently and efficiently while maintains the high accuracy.Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the algorithm compared to other classification algorithms.

Key words: differential privacy, privacy protection, random forest, data mining

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