Outsourcing Private Machine Learning via Lightweight Secure Arithmetic Computation

Abstract: In several settings of practical interest, two parties seek to collaboratively perform inference on their private data using a public machine learning model. For instance, several hospitals might wish to share patient medical records for enhanced diagnostics and disease prediction, but may not be able to share data in the clear because of privacy concerns. In this work, we propose an actively secure protocol for outsourcing secure and private machine learning computations. Recent works on the problem have mainly focused on passively secure protocols, whose security holds against passive (semi-honest') parties but may completely break down in the presence of active (malicious') parties who can deviate from the protocol. Secure neural networks based classification algorithms can be seen as an instantiation of an arithmetic computation over integers. We showcase the efficiency of our protocol by applying it to real-world instances of arithmetized neural network computations, including a network trained to perform collaborative disease prediction.